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The sound of silence in Indiana

Even as liberal senators in Washington were painting mild-mannered U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito as an extremist bent on destroying everything good and decent, Indiana state senators were demonstrating where the real problem lies in our wounded republic. In the Hoosier state, the Senate opened its session on Monday with 20 seconds of silence. That's because U.S. District Judge David Hamilton, at the behest of the local American Civil Liberties Union, decided that a prayer in the Indiana House violated the First Amendment last summer when the preacher mentioned the name of Jesus. In a way, the silent

Gay marriage rulings may affect ND housing

The University Office of Residence Life and Housing could face allowing same-sex marriage partners to reside in campus marriage housing residents if Massachusetts' ruling allowing same-sex marriages becomes a national trend. The University also could change its graduate family housing contracts, which limit lodging to degree-seeking students and their spouses pending proof of marriage, but does not specify that the couples must be male and female, which would create a loophole if Indiana acknowledged gay civil unions. However Mary Gude, assistant vice president of student affairs and standing committee chair for gay and lesbian student needs, said she was not concerned about

Federal bankruptcy court upholds federal marriage law

Tacoma, Washington, Aug. 23, 2004 (LifesiteNews.com/CWN) - Judge Paul Snyder, a federal bankruptcy judge in Tacoma, Washington, has ruled that the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA,) which defines "marriage" as "only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife," is constitutional. The case is the first challenge to the federal DOMA to be decided by a court and comes just weeks after a Washington State court held that homosexuals have a constitutional right to marriage under the state's constitution. The Kandu case arose after two women, Ann and Lee Kandu, were granted a marriage

N.Y. Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban

New York's highest court today turned back a broad attempt by gay and lesbian couples across the state to win the right to marry and raise children under New York State's marriage law, saying that denying marriage to same-sex couples does not violate the state constitution. In a 4-2 decision, the Court of Appeals found that the state's definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, enacted more than a century ago, could have a rational basis, and that it was up to the State Legislature, not the courts, to decide whether it should be changed. The

U.S. judge upholds Florida’s refusal of Massachusetts law

In the first known ruling of its kind, a federal judge in Florida on Wednesday upheld a federal law that lets states refuse to recognize marriages between same-sex couples who were legally wed in Massachusetts. The ruling by U.S. District Judge James Moody comes less than a week after President Bush told the Washington Post he would not lobby aggressively for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage because it had no chance of passing unless the federal law -- the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act -- was struck down. Bush's position, which contradicted his stance during the presidential campaign last