Posts Tagged ‘amendment’
by Jack Minor – The question of whether Weld County’s clerk and recorder, and sheriff can seek another two terms may not be decided until next year, the county attorney said. “This concept of saying have a judge review it isn’t the type of thing that can happen now,” county attorney Bruce Barker [...]
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by Jack Minor – The civil union bill being debated in the Colorado state legislature discriminates against Christians and others and could open the door to churches being forced to allow same-sex ceremonies to be performed in their facilities. “It’s important for all Colorado citizens to notice that this bill fails to protect [...]
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by Jack Minor – A federal judge has blocked enforcement of California’s “gay” conversion bill saying the bill violates the First Amendment by lacking “content and viewpoint neutrality.” The bill, SB 1172 would ban any attempt at “conversion therapy” on minors that would attempt to change their sexual [...]
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by Jack Minor – Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck has defended his decision to continue prosecuting marijuana users saying despite passage of an amendment legalizing the drug’s use, it is currently still illegal and he has a duty to enforce the law. “What if I were to determine that the will of [...]
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by Peter Grady – LONGMONT — A Longmont woman whose unborn son was killed by a drunk driver said she intends to advocate for the personhood movement after learning his killer will face no consequences for his death. Earlier this year Heather Surovik suffered the loss of Brady, her unborn baby who was [...]
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by Peter Grady – A local pro-life couple has had to go into seclusion after vandals threw a large rock through their window following a profile of their work in Newsweek. Keith and Jennifer Mason were profiled in an article for Newsweek magazine that was featured online in the Daily Beast. The piece [...]
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by Matt Lacy – Following the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejection of an appeal that overturned California’s constitutional amendment declaring marriage to be between a man and woman, the issue finally appears to be headed for the United States Supreme Court. “It’s not surprising that only three of the 25 judges who could [...]
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Refusing to recognize is not the same thing as banningby Jack Minor – Evangelical Lutherans in the St. Paul, Minnesota area went on record against changing the Minnesota Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and woman. The Saint Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America overwhelmingly passed [...]
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by Jack Minor – Republican voters in all 159 Georgia counties will have the opportunity to approve granting “personhood” status to all human beings beginning at the moment of conception. The ballot question will appear on the July 31 Republican primary ballot. Georgia Right to Life president, Dan Becker ,said, “Of all the [...]
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by Matt Lacy – Following Obama’s defiant stance on traditional marriage, Governor Hickenlooper decided he would not take “no” for an answer and ordered the Colorado state legislature back into session instructing them to vote on a civil union bill which would grant homosexuals the legal benefits of marriage after it failed to pass [...]
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by Jack Minor – During a campaign stop in Ft. Lupton, the presumptive nominee, Gov. Mitt Romney launched into a series of attacks against Obama’s energy policies while noticeably avoiding any mention of social issues such as abortion or same-sex marriage. The event was held at an oil well site operated by K.P. Kaufman [...]
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by Matt Lacy – North Carolina voters are going to the polls today to make an important decision as to whether they want to amend their constitution to protect traditional marriage. If the amendment is approved, North Carolina would join a solid majority of states who have constitutional amendments defending marriage as being between [...]
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by Peter Grady – Following yesterday’s announcement by Newt Gingrich that he was suspending his presidential campaign for Republican nomination, a Christian leader is calling on his supporters to throw their support behind Ron Paul rather than Mitt Romney who many conservatives consider to be a moderate candidate. Pastor Stephen Andrew, president of USA Christian [...]
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by Matt Lacy – Taking aim at attempts to legalize “gay” marriage in states around the country, Pope Benedict denounced the “powerful political and cultural currents” seeking to legalize “gay” marriage in the United States. Just this year, two states Maryland and Washington passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage. The Washington legislation is scheduled to take [...]
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“Gay” groups say laws granting them legal benefits not good enough, want word “marriage” by Jack Minor – The mayors of two major cities along the Front Range are part of a group calling for legalization of same-sex marriage throughout the country. At the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington D.C. on Friday, a group [...]
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by Jack Minor – Planned Parenthood’s attempt to stop Colorado from allowing a personhood amendment on the ballot in 2012 is part of a coordinated attack on similar initiatives across the country. Following the defeat of Amendment 26 in Mississippi, Planned Parenthood issued a statement crediting Mississippians for Healthy Families as being key to defeating the [...]
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by Peter Grady – Despite suffering defeats at the ballot, the Personhood movement will completely change the pro-life landscape during this presidential election by forcing candidates to take a strong stand on the issue one way or the other. The Personhood movement is an attempt to guarantee 14th Amendment protections to every human being regardless [...]
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Proposed amendment would have done what they said they opposed bill for by Peter Grady – The U.S. Senate passed a bill that the ACLU and Sen. Mark Udall said would allow the military to detain Americans on our own soil. S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization bill was opposed by President Obama, the American [...]
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Greeley pro-life leader says measure uses plain language to dispels opponent’s lies by Jack Minor – A local resident who is heavily involved in the pro-life movement says despite claims by abortion advocates, personhood is not dead and a new proposal addresses misinformation presented by opponents the last time around. Dennis Hoshiko, one of the [...]
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State refused to defend constitutional amendment passed by voters by Jack Minor – The California Supreme Court has ruled that sponsors of Proposition 8 and other ballot measures have the right to defend them in court if the state refuses to do so. Proposition 8 was a constitutional amendment that declared marriage to [...]
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Same-sex marriage still not legal in state by Jack Minor – While Massachusetts is credited as the first state to permit “gay” marriages, a researcher into the issue has said the state never actually legalized the practice. During the recent Republican debates, Romney comes across as a skilled debater and establishment Republicans laud him as [...]
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Claim unfair to be stigmatized for sexual orientation by Jack Minor – Using the same tactics used by “gay” rights activists, pedophiles have begun to seek similar status arguing their desire for children is a sexual orientation no different than heterosexual or homosexuals. Critics of the homosexual lifestyle have long claimed that once it became [...]
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States taking any federal money lose 11th Amendment protection by Jack Minor – The President’s jobs bill would effectively repeal the 11th Amendment for any state that receives federal funding anytime after the bill becomes law. During the healthcare bill, Nancy Pelosi said Congress needed to pass the bill so we could see what [...]
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Activist group say initiative would not go far enough by Jack Minor – College students who attempted to place an amendment on next year’s ballot have abandoned the attempt after failing to get support for “gay” and lesbian organizations. One of the students, Mark Olmstead of Arvada, said he was giving up his attempt [...]
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President Obama has nominated a law professor for a position on the 7th U.S. Court of Appeals. The professor believes that judges have the ability to create laws and that the Constitution “governs no one.” Victoria Nourse is currently the Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin School of Law. Nourse was first nominated for [...]
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by Steve Purdham Natural man is virtuous simply because a strict moral discipline is necessary for survival, a lesson that modern man must learn. Also, natural man is a protector. His true desires are to love and show compassion. In addition, equality is the true status of all people, meaning that we all are of equal [...]
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By Jack Minor The state of New York is asserting a sovereign right to define marriage, while claiming that states such as Colorado, that prohibit same sex marriages, do not have a similar right. Last week, New York Attorney General Scheneiderman announced the state was filing a brief supporting repeal of the [...]
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Gardner: President has yet to present plan By Jack Minor – Going down to the wire, House Republicans passed a second bill to raise the debt limit, while Democrats again refused to pass it in the Senate. White Press Secretary Jay Carney said Obama will not present a plan of his own to the [...]
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Moody’s says cut, cap and balance only plan that could prevent negative outlook on triple-A rating by Jack Minor President Obama threatened to veto the only debt-reduction proposal that meets Moody’s criteria for avoiding a negative outlook of the U.S. triple-A rating. Earlier yesterday, President Obama praised the “gang of six”, [...]
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Wants to increase spending on new initiatives by Jack Minor President Obama issued an ultimatum today, telling Congress they need to come up with a serious proposal for rasing the debt limit and cutting the budget in the next 24-36 hours. The president held a press [...]
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Congressman calls for impeachment if Obama bypasses Congress by Jack Minor As the discussion surrounding raising the debt limit has become more heated on both sides, some Democrats are claiming that the President does not need Congress to raise the debt limit on his own. The claim for Congress not being [...]
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Senator says huge disconnect between what public thinks law says and how authorities interpret it by Jack Minor In an example of how politics makes strange bedfellows, the ACLU stood side by side with Tea Party and gun rights groups in opposing an extension of the Patriot act that was signed into law by [...]
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Rules citizens must allow officers access to home without warrantby Jack Minor – Two Supreme Courts have issued rulings that civil libertarians say effectively nullify the 4th Amendment. One of those rulings overturns rights dating back to the Magna Carta. Nat Hentoff expressed alarm over both an Indiana Supreme Court and a U.S. Supreme [...]
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Will next speak at Conservative Breakfast Feb. 23 Story and photo By Jack Minor – Ken Buck, who lost the U.S. Senate race to incumbent Michael Bennet, announced the formation of a non-profit organization to help work with individual states to pass a Constitutional amendment to balance the Federal budget. The organization, Balance America, is [...]
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By Jack Minor A constitutional amendment passed by over 70 percent of the voters in Oklahoma stating judges could not use foreign or Sharia law in their decisions has been put on hold after the head of a Muslim organization filed a lawsuit claiming the amendment violates the rights of Muslims to practice their religion. [...]
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