A genuine surprise from the Hawkeye State today because the ruling was unanimous. Expect more of this type of thing to happen in the next couple years and challenge Obama’s opinion that gay marriage shouldn’t be legal… “The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal [...]

For years I’ve been arguing that the government should simply get out of the institution of marriage all together, and some folks in Cali are trying to put that idea into motion. From The Herald: California’s top election official gave two Southern California college students the go-ahead Tuesday to start collecting signatures for a proposed [...]

It is not too early to checkpoint how President Obama is progressing on “undoing the damage” of the Bush/Cheney Imperial Presidency. The most egregious offenses of the Bush/Cheney administration fall under the umbrella of expanding executive branch power at the expense of the legislative and judicial branches, with a commensurate erosion of constitutional protections. On balance – So far… all is not so good.

“We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and Non-Believers.” – Barack Obama in his inaugural address today I forgot to include this in my thoughts about his address, but it was so refreshing to hear somebody finally say those words. They’re long overdue and it signals yet another way Obama is [...]

“In 2006, when then-Sen. Obama voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment, he said, “Decisions about marriage should be left to the states.” He was right then; and as I have come to realize, he is right now in concluding that DOMA has to go. If one truly believes in federalism and the primacy of state [...]

Kristen Soltis pens a great post over at The Next Right that’s definitely worth a read. Because by talking about refocusing what religion means to the Republican party, she’s helping drive the conversation for a new generation of conservatives…and that’s long overdue… The notion that every human life is sacred is an important one, and [...]

On its face, the Warren pick seems like a slap in the face to the progressive gay movement, and I can understand why this group would be incensed. Here you have the first African-American President inviting one of the most high profile supporters of Prop 8 to speak at the inauguration. And it’s not like [...]

This isn’t going to make gay rights activists happy. Barack Obama has selected evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Once again, Obama seems more interested in reaching out rather than reaching inwards towards his base. While Warren is not of the fire-and-brimstone mold, he did play a prominent role in [...]

As I’ve stated on this blog before, I wish government would get out of the business of marriage altogether and simply grant people civil unions. That way it’s a legal contract and then anybody can get a marriage in the religious institution of their choice thus creating a very clear separation of church and state. [...]

For the last several years, the Episcopal Church in the United States has been embroiled in internal conflict. Four dioceses and a collection of parishes, upset by the social liberalism of the Episcopal Church, have broken away from the church. Today, those congregations have formerly formed a new church: the Anglican Church in North America [...]

The nation has been clamoring for a solution on this and Bush finally decided to address it in this hour of need when healthcare workers are being inhumanely forced to give their patients information about birth control and artificial insemination. The horror! But it doesn’t just stop there…as the LA Times reveals: It also seeks [...]

Well, just when I think I understand Americans something like this comes around and smacks me in the face… 77% of U.S. voters say school children should say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning at school, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 13% say they should not, and 9% are undecided. [...]

Dan Gilgoff at Politico writes that very little has changed in the evangelical political world: Evangelicals are still much more concerned with so-called wedge issues than any other demographic group. A Barna Group poll found that 40 percent of evangelicals chose their presidential candidate based on his position on “moral issues,” compared with 9 percent [...]

Douglas W. Kmiec, a high profile lawyer in the Reagan and Poppy Bush administrations, lays out what he thinks is the solution to this gay marriage mess. Essentially, get the government out of the business of religious marriage, and instead create civil unions for all that are legally recognized by the government. That way you [...]

It probably could have been expected, but the reaction on the right side of the blogosphere to Kathleen Parker’s column about the GOP and religious conservatives, which I wrote about yesterday and which Dennis wrote about last night has been quite blistering. Jonah Goldberg essentially accuses his former collegue of bigotry: I don’t know what’s [...]

More delicious crazy… A Wichita, Kansas preacher says he will not remove a message on his church sign that says President-Elect Barack Obama is a Muslim. The sign is staying up despite the fact that Obama is a Christian. At least it’s not in Missouri, but it’s close enough to be embarrassing.

Maybe not in 2012, but be on the lookout for Bobby Jindal in the coming years. He will definitely be a major player. The three things that Jindal cite are definitely what the GOP hung their hat on, but will they have a higher hurdle if Obama is successful with his decidedly liberal economic agenda? [...]

I thought California’s Proposition 8 would fail and California would become the first state where the voters themselves actually voiced approval for gay marriage. Obviously, I was wrong. Turns out the progressive coalition that swept Barack Obama into office is not so progressive, at least not on the issue that many on the left consider [...]

An interesting turn of events in California… Kate Kendall, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said 3 million to 4 million ballots remain uncounted statewide. “The fact is depending on the turnout model we are looking at millions of votes yet to be counted,” Kendall said. The race is too close to [...]

You knew it had to happen. But what’s surprising is this was created and is being funded by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania. In fact, their user account on YouTube only has two videos in it, with this being one of them. Will McCain denounce this tactic? We shall see…