Tag Archives: Maryland

Enjoy the hand-wringing. Unless God intervenes, Governor Chris Gregoire will succeed in her effort to legalize same-sex “marriage” in Washington State. Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen (D) announced Monday that she will support the bill, making her’s the 25th vote necessary for passage. “You are saying…you know better than God,” said Pastor Ken Hutcherson of the Antioch Bible Church. The House …

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Noticeably absent: Chris Christie. (Tipped by JMG reader Brian)

Tomorrow Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will introduce his marriage equality bill. O’Malley (D) is scheduled to host a breakfast gathering of same-sex couples at Government House and then tout his legislation at a news conference afterward. Aides say O’Malley will be joined outside his residence by supportive legislators, clergy and labor leaders. Word of his plans spread as O’Malley prepared …

As per usual. They declare: “Since the passing of a similar law in Montgomery County, Maryland, rapes have occurred in the women’s bathrooms of Montgomery Community College, Asbury nursing home, Pelican restaurant, and Bethesda Hyatt.” They make no claim that trans people were involved in any of those cases, but women were raped somewhere and that’s obviously due to transgender …

The Family Research Council’s prayer of the day: May God stir pastors across the state of Maryland to set aside their regular activities to do their part in this critical fight. May they lead their congregations to do their duty as Christian citizens! May this and related bills be defeated and the momentum toward homosexual marriage be permanently reversed! As …

One million dollars from the Knights of Columbus? From some murkily-sourced archdiocese slush fund? Will we ever know?

So sez “Bishop” Harry Jackson, who adds that God has personally ordered him to join the marriage fight. Jackson says he then complained to God that he didn’t have the money to do it. And bingo! When he got up the next morning God had commanded somebody to email him $50,000.

The demon of same-sex marriage is hovering over Maryland. THEY’VE SEEN HER, people.

After an altercation with military police, Dan Choi has been banned from attending the hearing of accused Wikileaks figure Bradley Manning. “They said I was heckling. I definitely was not heckling,” Choi said in a telephone interview Monday morning. “They used six MPs to pin me down to the ground. They handcuffed me. I still can’t feel my right hand. …

Maryland marriage alert!

Maryland state Delegate Tiffany Alston, who helped derail same-sex marriage, has been charged with embezzling money to pay for her own wedding. Alston, 34, a little-known freshman state lawmaker before this spring, is charged with writing herself checks and cashing them to pay for at least $3,560 in expenses for her wedding day. According to the Office of the Maryland …

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One of the teenagers caught on video in a brutal attack on a transwoman at a Baltimore McDonald’s has pleaded guilty. Teonna Monae Brown, 19, pleaded guilty in a Baltimore County court to one court of first-degree assault and one count of a hate crime in the attack on Chrissy Polis, 22, said Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger. The …

The Archbishop of Baltimore, Edwin O’Brien, has a message for Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who earlier this week vowed to support the renewed push for marriage equality. “Maryland is not New York,” wrote Archbishop Edwin O’Brien of Baltimore in a statement to LifeSiteNews Tuesday. “During the 2011 session, Maryland lawmakers chose not to redefine marriage because they listened to their …

As Maryland’s activists gear up to take another run at marriage equality, Gov. Martin O’Malley has pledged his full support. “I certainly plan to be very active in support of it, and we’ll have other announcements in upcoming months,” O’Malley said at the National Governors Association meeting in Salt Lake City. O’Malley has long supported civil unions and has said …

A coalition of LGBT and civil rights groups are working together to take another run at marriage equality in Maryland. Equal rights organizations are joining forces today at 11 a.m. at Baltimore City Hall to launch a coalition that seeks to secure marriage equality in Maryland during the 2012 legislative session. The organizations comprising Marylanders for Marriage Equality are Equality …