One month after New Zealand voted to legalise same sex-marriage, an organisation promoting traditional family values has been stripped of its status as a charity because of its view that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

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In a bold stride for the majority Roman Catholic nation, the National Council of Justice, a panel which oversees Brazil's legal system and is headed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court, said government offices that issue marriage licenses had no standing to reject gay couples.

According to a new survey by Ipsos MediaCT, nearly one in five (or 18%) of Americans credit television with shifting their opinion in favor of redefining marriage to accommodate same-sex couples. Just 10% said television moved their opinion against redefining marriage. Ipsos’ nationwide survey (of 1,096 television viewers age 13-64) found 62% favored same-sex “marriage.”

The briefs filed in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Supreme Court case on California's Proposition 8, reveal something odd. Much of the debate over same-sex marriage has been a fight over metaphors.

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During the oral arguments about Proposition 8, Justice Anthony Kennedy referred to children being raised by same-sex couples. Since I was one of those children—from ages 2-19, I was raised by a lesbian mother with the help of her partner—I was curious to see what he would say.

In a world filled with technological devices, it is hard to spend quality family time. However the new book "All-In Night" has a solution. It suggests families to commit to one night when everyone is home, choose a topic, and DISCUSS!

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Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently commented on the infamous Roe v. Wade decision in a way that may shed light on how she—and the Court—will rule in the cases involving homosexual "marriage" that are currently before the Court.

The case of infertile couples is surely the favorite counter-example of those who question the consistency of traditional Catholic sexual ethics. How can homosexual, masturbatory, or contraceptive behavior be condemned for its infertility when allowances are made for heterosexual couples who know in advance that pregnancy is an impossibility?

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Robert Oscar Lopez was raised by a lesbian mother with the help of her partner. Lopez has recently conducted a study along with Doug Mainwaring (who is gay and opposes gay marriage), in which they explain that children deeply feel the loss of a father or mother, no matter how much they love their gay parents. Children feel the loss keenly because they are powerless to stop the decision to deprive them of a father or mother, and the absence of a male or female parent will likely be irreversible for them.

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Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco insists ‘marriage cannot be redefined because its unique meaning lies in our very nature.