"Seventeen years later, the advocates of same-sex marriage are making 'people’s personal sexual preferences' everybody’s business, and are counting on the Seinfeld Effect to suppress what most Americans really think about same-sex marriage"

Hugh Hewitt Show transcript: Peter Hitchens discusses the decline of Christianity in the West, and his book, The Rage Against God. Excerpt: "We are a country in very severe decline of all kinds, and there is, at the moment, no sign whatever of any serious attempt to recover from that decline. On the contrary, it’s embraced by a large part of the population . . . unless something is done about it very soon, then as a society, we will cease to function. We are becoming an uncivilized anarchy, and a very, very uneducated and immoral one as well. The other thing, the institution of marriage is in an advanced state of collapse here. Marriage simply doesn’t enter into the lives of many young people who set up home without even considering getting married. It doesn’t happen. It’s gone. The number of children being born outside wedlock is colossal. I think it’s now the majority."

"The Muslim center . . . could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy."

"Alliance Defense Fund attorneys secured a consent order Friday from a district court that requires the city of Stayton to allow a man to display pro-life signs on a public street corner."

". . . Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Tax payers will be paying around $600 billion in interest on the national debt by 2012, the chairman told students and local leaders in Detroit. 'That’s one year’s worth of defense budget,' he said . . . "

"Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem said Friday that sexually oriented businesses likely will suffer economic loss as a result of the law. But he says that alone does not affect the legal analysis of the constitutional claims."

"[W]e conclude that the Medi-Share program does provide a 'contract for insurance' . . . We also conclude that Medi-Share does not fall within the Religious Publications Exemption."

"Only candidates nominated by the Commission may be appointed by the Governor. Since all nominees allowed to move forward by the Commission may be opposed to the Governor, the Judicial Council, and not the people, has complete control over who becomes a judge in Kansas."

"A new ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has prompted the Alliance Defense Fund to send follow-up letters to five colleges and universities that it contacted in April about their problematic 'speech codes.'"

"Baraq [Barack] was the name of the winged horse-like creature that took Mohammed to Paradise in the Night Journey . . . . . The Arab African Muslim has always been associated with slavery because Islam is the driving force in the history of world slavery . . . "

Briefly put, marriage ― as conventionally understood ― is a bulwark of liberty. Here ― despite the bigotry of Iowa judges against the past ― I revert to history. The telling reality is that every modern totalitarian movement ― every enemy of a free society ― has moved early and aggressively to disrupt or destroy the institution of natural marriage."

"We face an aggressively secular political vision and a consumerist economic model that result – in practice, if not in explicit intent - in a new kind of state encouraged atheism."

"If the statements on which Judge Walker based his ruling are 'facts,' how do we explain what is happening educationally to boys in the black community where a large majority are growing up without fathers?"

"This year, the Obama administration will spend nearly $6 million to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including mosques and minarets, in 55 nations, according to State Department documents."

Attorneys for Wendell Loy Nielsen . . . said at a hearing Tuesday they intend to challenge the Texas bigamy laws their client is charged with violating under amended indictments."

97.9% of precincts reporting 55.49% YES, 44.51% NO.

". . . science itself has ended the debate . . . Nowadays, everyone wants a bailout. Embryo-destructive scientists are only the latest group to claim they're too big to fail, when in fact they've never succeeded . . . "

"The Obama administration announced today that it will appeal a federal judge's decision striking down President Barack Obama's executive order forcing taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research."

Los Angeles Times: "Proposition 39, which was passed by voters in 2000, requires school districts to provide charter schools with facilities that are reasonably equivalent to those of other schools in the district. About 60,000 students in L.A. Unified have opted to attend charter schools. But administrators have in no way tried to meet the 'reasonably equivalent' standard . . . When charter schools manage to get funding to build their own schools independent of the district, they do so for far less money than the LAUSD does."

"The Americans leave behind 'an Iraq worse off than the one they found seven years ago,' said Warduni, who’s widely regarded as the most charismatic voice among the Iraqi bishops . . . . Now there’s only rubble. We’ve become targets, we’re afraid to even leave the house. The situation is worse for everyone, but especially for us Christians. The withdrawal of the United States is a disastrous flight from responsibility . . . "