Mathew Staver
Mathew Staver
Mathew D. "Mat" Staver, J.D., is an American lawyer and former Seventh-day Adventistpastor who became a Southern Baptist. He is the founding member and Chairman of the Liberty Counsel law firm since 1989...
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I don't see that the city would have any compelling reason to prohibit her from displaying small flags in her windows. It's a violation of her First Amendment rights,
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Today's ruling underscores the importance of amending California's constitution to preserve marriage as one man and one woman. The people of California will not put up with such nonsense.
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Today's ruling defies logic and common sense by saying that children can have two moms. That policy establishes that moms and dads as a unit are irrelevant when it comes to raising children.
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Linda is very happy. She's gone for 2 1/2 years without having hardly any say in her children's lives.
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We could have kept Michael completely out of the children's lives, but it would have kept it in court for another year and a half and would have dragged the kids through another trial.
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To conclude that there is no relationship between male-female marriage and child-rearing, or the best interest of children, shows a lack of respect to the legislature, to common sense and to social science.
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Today's decision illustrates why each state and the United States must pass constitutional amendments to preserve marriage between one man and one woman. Marriage should not depend on the stroke of a single judge's pen.
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Day after day we have recited the Pledge from the classroom to the stateroom, from private meetings to public events, and not once has it tended to establish a religion, ... Today's ruling illustrates why we need judges who are umpires applying settled law rather than activists intent on imposing their own ideology.
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The Attorney General failed to carry out his duty to prepare a neutral, factual title and summary, which would have prevented a fair vote on this important issue. The people deserve the chance to vote to protect marriage rights.
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We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.
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This decision gives the green light to the rest of the nation to move forward with assisted suicide laws. This particular case was either going to close the door or to open it, and it opened it.
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This case has significant implications for a number of reasons, You have two state laws clashing for the very first time.
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Some of these schools have probably represented they're in compliance when they're not. If they were, we wouldn't be getting the kind of calls we're getting.
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If you have a forum like this, that students are using to express themselves, this is the price of free speech.