Later this month, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear legal arguments on the constitutionality of amendments in four states that limit marriage to heterosexual couples. East Carolina University experts will present a panel discussion titled "Continuing Debates Around Federal, State and...
Published: Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 @ 7:59 pm
By: ECU News Services
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I just returned from a visit to my almost 97-year-old mother in Atlanta. We stayed with my classmate from Clarkston High School 1963. He and his wife are both in the same class with me so we are all Baby boomers now reaching the final stage of marriage---RETIREMENT YEARS.
Published: Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 @ 3:22 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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The interview programs of Sunday are always interesting to me. Tops on the list of topics were all the "religious freedom" legislations across the country.
Published: Monday, April 6th, 2015 @ 8:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Naughty and Nice: North Carolina had plenty of both this year. Here is our list!
Published: Sunday, January 4th, 2015 @ 12:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A ruling Thursday by the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals on gay marriage restrictions in Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan, and Kentucky could open the door to a US Supreme Court review and offer some hope for advocates of traditional marriage.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 5:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld as constitutional the Marriage Amendments in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The Sixth Circuit's ruling almost ensures that the United States Supreme Court will hear the issue.
Published: Friday, November 7th, 2014 @ 6:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Over the last two weeks, those of us who have publically offered that the states, rather than federal circuit and district courts, have the constitutional authority to make decisions on marriage have been met with derision by liberals.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 9:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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At least two North Carolina magistrates have resigned rather than perform same-sex marriages, citing conflicts with their religious beliefs.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 2:42 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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If you've been paying attention to the media, you've been told numerous times from opponents of North Carolina's Marriage Amendment that the fight is over, and that they have won.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 10:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Richard Burr's favorite judge legalized gay "marriage" in North Carolina around 5:30 PM on Friday.
Published: Saturday, October 18th, 2014 @ 1:04 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Why bother having elections? We have these unelected law school graduates in black robes regularly stomping all over the will of the people and their elected officials.
Published: Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 @ 4:16 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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While Gov. Pat McCrory tucks tail and runs, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest is sticking to his guns and standing up FOR the folks he represents.
Published: Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 @ 7:54 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Late in the day on Friday, 10/10/2014, the Federal Court handed down its decision over the NC Marriage Amendment, adopted with great angst a couple of years ago.
Published: Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 @ 5:29 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Friday, an unelected federal judge violated the foundational principles of this great nation. In 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and later by ratification, the states relinquished a limited amount of power to a federal government.
Published: Sunday, October 12th, 2014 @ 12:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A crowded field is squaring off in the N.C. House District 58 race. Incumbent Rep. Alma Adams is making a run for the 12th District Congressional seat formerly held by U.S. Rep. Mel Watt. District 58 covers Guilford County's midsection, including much of Greensboro.
Published: Friday, April 25th, 2014 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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U.S. Senate hopeful Greg Brannon issued fiery constitutional rhetoric and delivered the biggest applause lines Friday night from an audience of about 600 people as he ran away with a straw poll at a Republican candidates forum.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 7:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tim D'Annunzio made a shocking admission during a Saturday candidate forum: If he defeated Sean Haugh and won the Libertarian Party nomination for U.S. Senate, and Gregg Brannon got the Republican nod, he would not want to split the vote in the general election and allow Democratic incumbent Kay Hag
Published: Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 @ 6:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congressman Walter Jones takes action and relates it to his constituents through these press releases.
Published: Saturday, April 5th, 2014 @ 3:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The constitutionalist and libertarian sector should be there for social conservatives who want to practice their beliefs and do no more harm than hurting some lefties' feelings.
Published: Monday, March 3rd, 2014 @ 9:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Last month, in a sermon the media described as "fire and thunder," the Rev. William Barber, head of the NC NAACP, mounted the pulpit of Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and began to excoriate all things political - to the right.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 9:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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"Professor" Gloria J. Brown-Marshall wrote a Christmas Day essay blaming "southern White radicals" for the disastrous, slow-motion train wreck failure that has been the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 @ 11:20 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The 1669 act was an early regulation of marriage in Carolina. The statute was enacted by the Lords Proprietors, who governed according to the Charter of 1663 (above). image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
Published: Sunday, November 17th, 2013 @ 10:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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By now, politics-watchers are well familiar with the story of Todd Akin, the GOP challenger to Missouri senator Claire McCaskill (D) in 2012.
Published: Monday, September 16th, 2013 @ 8:54 am
By: Brant Clifton
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An awful lot of us on the right worked hard to get Pat McCrory into the governor's mansion in Raleigh. There was a lot of excitement in 2012 about the potential for fundamental change a GOP majority and GOP governor could bring to state government.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 4:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, the US Supreme Court has stripped key provisions out of the federal Defense of Marriage Act - which kept the feds from paying benefits to "married" gay couples.
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 10:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Some Wilmington-area activists with Heritage Action were ringleaders in the effort to hijack US Senator Kay Hagan's Twitter town hall.
Published: Thursday, April 25th, 2013 @ 6:11 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I was always under the impression that people elect you to the Senate so that you can give voice to THEIR concerns in Washington. Kay Hagan got elected from North Carolina, but she's put together a voting record that would earn her senator-for-life status in Massachusetts.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2013 @ 10:58 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The economy MUST be fixed. The nimrods in the mainstream media are going on and on about the oral arguments on gay marriage at The U.S. Supreme Court -- as though the world's survival hangs in the balance.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 9:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The race for N.C. House District 9 features a Republican newcomer to politics against an incumbent Democrat in a district where the political dynamics have been altered by redistricting.
Published: Thursday, October 11th, 2012 @ 12:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Frank Daniels III – cousin of Southern Pines Pilot publisher David Woronoff and one of four partners who own Moore County’s Pulitzer Prize winning thrice weekly paper — is mighty disappointed with the voters of his home state.
Published: Sunday, August 19th, 2012 @ 11:02 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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One important part of the session was decided not at the General Assembly, but at polling places across the state.
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2012 @ 2:53 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina was the 30th state to approve language prohibiting gay marriage and the last in the South to do so. Ninety-three of the state's 100 counties had majorities voting in favor of the amendment.
Published: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 @ 5:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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