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California Nonpartisan Agency Says Economic Effects of SSM "Negligible"

Gay activists often try to point to the Williams Institute's claims that redefining marriage will stimulate state economies. We recently pointed out a small business owner in Washington, DC showing how...

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WaPo: Santorum Wants Tax Code to Reward Marriage and Families

Suzy Khimm of the Washington Post's Wonk Blog: Rick Santorum’s socially conservative brand has helped him break through with a last-minute surge in Iowa. But his agenda isn’t restricted to reimposing...

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Dying Meme Alert: Redefining Marriage Won't Stimulate New Jersey's Economy

Maggie Gallagher has already debunked the false argument that gay marriage is an economic stimulus plan. Tami Fitzgerald has also countered the same claim in North Carolina and Minnesota State Rep....

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Washington Olympian Editors: Same-Sex Marriage a Distraction from Budget Crisis

Democrats in Washington state, like Democrats in New Jersey, appear to be elevating pushing same-sex marriage over bread-and-butter issues. The editors of the Washington Olympian say the state's budget...

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Economist Says Gay Marriage Undermines New Hampshire's Fiscal Stability

Foster Daily Democrat: Economist Scott Moody believes the devaluation of marriage through same-sex marriage will eventually ensure a population in New Hampshire where the shrinking, younger generation...

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UK Think Tank: Cost of Equality Act "Far Outweigh" Any Benefits

The UK Christian Institute takes on the same faulty economic arguments used here to redefine marriage being used as an excuse to curtail religious rights in the UK: Supposed financial benefits of the...

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Republicans Say WA Democrats Are Ignoring Key Task of Budget to Push SSM

The Seattle Times: Republican lawmakers Wednesday decried what they say is slow action on progress to close a $1 billion budget gap. In a meeting with reporters, House and Senate GOP leaders said too...

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A New Path to Upward Mobility: Get Married and Stay Married

This is one of the top 5 articles on Fox News Opinion right now, written by Sheila Weber, executive director of National Marriage Week USA and the Let's Strengthen Marriage Campaign: Marriage, we have...

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Pulitzer Prize NYT Columnist: "Traditional Marriage" Has "Huge Beneficial...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times parts with his liberal brethren to acknowledge the importance of marriage for lifting individuals and societies out of...

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False Arguments: SSM Advocate Threatens Minnesota with Absurd "Bad for...

Chuck Darrell, director of communications for Minnesota for Marriage, responds in the Star Tribune to a recent argument used to oppose marriage amendments: In "The marriage amendment, from all angles"...

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Taranto in WSJ: Breakdown of Marriage Has Increased Inequality of the Sexes

Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto responds to Paul Krugman's claim that "the sharp decline in marriage rates among less-affluent white Americans, documented by Charles Murray in his new book,...

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MARRI Releases "162 Reasons to Marry"

The Marriage and Religion Research Institute has published a list of 162 Reasons to Marry. The reasons, obviously, are too many to list, but here are a few: The findings herein demonstrate that in...

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Douthat on Marriage, Self-Interest and Happiness

Ross Douthat in his New York Times blog on the ongoing conversation about family (and marital) breakdown sparked by Charles Murray's new book "Coming Apart": Matt Yglesias has an interesting...

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New Jersey News Outlets Trot Out UCLA's Tired "SSM = Economic Stimulus" Meme,...

NBC 10 Philadelphia reports: "If same-sex marriage is legalized in New Jersey, the state could see an economic boon of $119 million over three years, economic experts say." Who are these supposed...

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Video: Debunking the "Gay Marriage = Economic Stimulus" Myth

Kalley Yanta debunks the tired meme that claims protecting marriage somehow harms the economy. She argues: "This argument is internally inconsistent with other arguments gay-marriage backers advance....

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Are Marriage Amendments Bad for Business?

The New York Times tries to make the case but the facts are pathetically against them: Last weekend, former President Bill Clinton took to North Carolina phone lines with a recorded message warning of...

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Kiplinger: Top 8 U.S. Cities Poised for Job Growth Exist in Marriage...

Yahoo! just posted a report from Kiplinger that lists the top 8 U.S. cities for future job growth. Kiplinger says these cities are "poised to become job-creating machines in the years ahead." Those...

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Video: What are the Consequences of SSM for Small Businesses?

Kalley Yanta of the Minnesota Marriage Minute explains some of the consequences for small businesses of redefining marriage: "Small business owners who conscientiously object to same-sex marriage will...

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Arthur Brooks: "Marriage and Happiness Go Together"

Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, in the New York Times: "...Many conservatives favor an explanation focusing on lifestyle differences, such as marriage and faith. They...

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Top 10 Most Business-Friendly States All Protect Marriage!

Yet another nail in the coffin for the absurd argument that protecting marriage is somehow bad for business, via The Blaze: Using 51 metrics of competitiveness developed with input from business groups...

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Forbes Brand Index: Republicans Sour on Starbucks After SSM Endorsement

Forbes has a monthly Red/Blue series where they "investigate how consumer political affiliation relates to brand perception." Here's what they found about Starbucks: Democrats and Republicans started...

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New York Times Notices the Economic Benefits of Marriage

Jason DeParle of the New York Times: "...The economic storms of recent years have raised concerns about growing inequality and questions about a core national faith, that even Americans of humble...

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AFA: JCPenney Stock Crashes With News of Gay Marriage Support

The American Family Association: Simply put, people are not shopping at J.C. Penney. AFA and OneMillionMoms are showing success in the effort to educate people to Penney's aggressive national campaign...

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The Geography of Snobbishness

Richard Florida, author of "The Rise of the Creative Class" and one of the formulators of the thoroughly-debunked "gay marriage is good for the economy" meme is out with a new article for the Atlantic...

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Gov. O'Malley, Whose Top Priority Was SSM, Leads Nation in Job Loss

Mismatched priorities? AP Maryland has lost more jobs so far this year than any other state in the nation according to the U.S. Department of Labor. After last Friday's release of June state...

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Marriage As a Social Justice Issue

La Shawn Barber writes in Pajamas Media: "...So-called social justice, the impetus behind government policies like racial preferences, drives the Democratic platform. But no matter how level the...

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Forbes Columnist: Chick-fil-A May Have Booked Over $100 Million Yesterday

Derek Broes of Forbes.com: "...So, how was the chicken? Amazing! Now I know why people love this place. The store was run extremely well. Clean, polite and efficient. The staff brought water to those...

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LSN: Chick-Fil-A Confirms Record-Smashing Sales on Appreciation Day

Jean McCarthy of LifeSiteNews: As Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day wrapped up Wednesday evening, it took a long time for the dust and feathers to settle. Almost 700,000 people signed up for Mike Huckabee’s...

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Poll: Just 6% of Gay Voters Say Gay Marriage is Most Important Issue

The Washington Times: "...A poll taken last week by Harris Interactive of more than 1,000 voters who identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender found that nearly one-third dubbed...

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Video: Do Marriage Amendments Hurt the Economy?

Kalley Yanta responds to a common argument used against protecting marriage - that it will harm the economy: "A new business report proves that's not true. A new CNBC study of America's top states for...

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General Mills Shareholders Take Company to Task Over SSM Endorsement

Star Tribune: General Mills' stand against a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage got both criticism and accolades from shareholders at the company's annual meeting on Monday. The...

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The Blue State Exodus (Towards Pro-Marriage States)

General Mills recently claimed it endorsed same-sex marriage for economic reasons. Conn Carroll, senior editorial writer at the Examiner notes that Americans are fleeing blue states for states that...

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PMW: Business Does Best Where Marriage Is Not Redefined

Preserve Marriage Washington, which is fighting to reject Referndum-74 (gay marriage): Is there a business case for supporting same-sex marriage?  The numbers say no.  Some business leaders took out a...

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Santorum: Stand Up for Marriage and Families this November

Rick Santorum writes that "wedded bliss helps prevent poverty" in the Washington Times: Since the 2008 presidential campaign, when then-Sen. Barack Obama told the Rev. Rick Warren that he supported...

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New Study by Prudential Insurance Shows the Wealth of LGBT People

Austin Ruse at the First Things First Thoughts blog: "...Matthew Frank pointed out in these pages that recent Federal Court rulings scoff at the claim that LGBT persons are politically powerless. ......

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Anderson Explains Why Government is in the Marriage Business

For the third part of his series for Ricochet, Ryan Anderson (co-author of What is Marriage?) explains why government has a rightful role in protecting and promoting marriage: "...Getting government...

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"Iconic" Annapolis, Maryland Trolley Forced to Shut Down Because of SSM

The Baltimore Sun: An Annapolis company whose old-fashioned trolleys are iconic in the city's wedding scene has abandoned the nuptial industry rather than serve same-sex couples. The owner of Discover...

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Tax Expert Says U.S. Tax Code Sending a Message: Don't Be Married

The fiscal cliff deal signed by President Obama earlier this month comes down especially hard on married individuals, many of whom were already penalized by the Affordable Care Act: It pays to be...

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IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family

A burden on middle class and young families: In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016...

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Pat Fagan: The Wealth of Nations Depends on the Health of Families

Patrick Fagan is Senior Fellow and Director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute at the Family Research Council. He writes in  Public Discourse that "Family, church, and school are the three...

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"Here's a Secret -- Marriage is America’s Most Effective Anti-Poverty Program"

Sheila Weber is the executive director of National Marriage Week USA and writes in FoxNews: In spite of other disagreements, there is one aspect about marriage that both the left and the right can find...

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Heritage's Walker: Marriage Makes Fiscal Sense

Andrew Walker of the Heritage Foundation wrote last week in conjunction with National Marriage Week: "...Americans deserve to know the facts about marriage as an antidote to child poverty. That’s...

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Video: NOM's Peters on CNN: Supreme Court Must Respect Votes of 7 Million...

NOM's Communications Director Thomas Peters engaged in a spirited debate on a wide range of issues surrounding marriage, corporate fairness, and the Supreme Court on CNN this weekend: CNN has posted a...

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Gay Marriage Won't Be an Economic Boost to Illinois

Prof. Jennifer Roback Morse, Founder and President of the Ruth Institute, writes in Mercatornet: A recent report claims that "marriage equality" will provide an economic boost to Illinois: US$54- $103...

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Forbes: No Evidence that Gay Marriage is Good for Business

Jerry Bowyer for Forbes: Sometimes you just know that you are being subjected to a hard sell. Someone pushes a product at you and they just start rattling off alleged benefits, hoping that one will hit...

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Marriage Reduces Likelihood of Child Poverty by 82 Percent

Heritage’s blog, The Foundry, recently shared an illuminating chart (see below) that demonstrates the connection between child poverty and being raised in single-mother households. Today, one out of...

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Gov. Pence: States with Marriage Amendments Have Fastest Growing Economies

During a visit to Evansville this week, Indiana Governor Mike Pence pointed out the correlation between states that protect marriage as husband and wife and strong economic growth: Governor Pence was...

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Redefining Marriage and the Concept of Freedom

In his column today, First Things editor R.R. Reno discusses the concepts of freedom and discipline. And why same-sex marriage is intimately tied to both. ...it’s very palpable here in New York and...

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The "Least of Illinois' Concerns"

At TownHall.com, Sarah Jane Seman offers a response to a recent claim by an Illinois lawmaker that by not redefining marriage, Illinois is "missing out on [an] economic opportunity." Seman references...

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Marriage as a Social Justice Issue

If you live in or around Washington, DC you may want to plan to visit Georgetown University this evening for what is sure to be a fantastic lecture by NOM friend and What is Marriage? co-author Ryan T....

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