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Phyllis Schlafly

How Congress Should Respond to Justice Kennedy

07/01/2015

Justice Kennedy’s opinion for a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court has rightly been condemned for its lack of grounding in the Constitutional text he is sworn to uphold. Unable to find gay marriage in either the due process clause or the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Kennedy ultimately rests his case on what Justice Clarence Thomas sarcastically called the “dignity clause” of the Constitution.

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Phyllis Schlafly

What Will the Court Do To Marriage?

04/08/2015

If you get your news primarily from entertainment shows or social media, you might think that same-sex marriage has already been recognized as a constitutional right. In fact, the Supreme Court held just the opposite in 1972 and has since refused several opportunities to revisit that ruling.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Marriage on the Chopping Block?

01/28/2015

Within hours after the Supreme Court announced it would decide whether the Constitution requires every state to recognize marriages between persons of the same sex, the New York Times published an editorial gleefully predicting the inevitable outcome. When its ruling comes down in June, the Times assures us, the Supreme Court will “end the debate once and for all.”

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Phyllis Schlafly

Legislatures Should Curb Judicial Supremacy Over Marriage

01/21/2015

It’s Roe v. Wade all over again, as the Supreme Court is poised to invent a new right to same-sex marriage found nowhere in the four corners of the Constitution. Fortunately, the Founders gave us checks and balances against this overreaching in power.

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Phyllis Schlafly

The Best Interest of the Dog

10/01/2014

The supposed standard for child custody in family courts is the “best interest of the child.” The Vermont supreme court has now extended that to the best interest of the dog.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Who Killed the American Family?

09/24/2014

The British press just reported the result of a new study by academics from Oxford and the University of London that children raised in stable marital homes are better behaved than classmates brought up by unmarried parents. Children raised by married parents show lower levels of anti-social attitudes and hyperactivity.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Faulty Ideas about Marriage

08/20/2014

Political junkies will remember how former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels was being groomed to run for president in 2012 before he made his foolish statement that the next president should “call a truce on the so-called social issues.” Americans do not want a leader who is unable or unwilling to articulate and lead on important social issues.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Who Killed the American Family?

09/11/2013

Political support for traditional marriage seemed to evaporate in the summer of 2013. The U.S. Supreme Court did not rule that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, but the homosexuals are behaving as though it did and filing lawsuits in many states to expand the Court’s decision, while the advocates of traditional marriage have retreated into silence.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Judges Who Want to be Supremacists

08/07/2013

Redefining the First Amendment is a core aim of Barack Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform the United States.” He is steadily changing the First Amendment’s words, “free exercise” of religion, to the much more restricted notion of freedom of worship.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Supreme Court Marriage Decisions

07/03/2013

The Supreme Court decision on marriage, as Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent, “is an assertion of judicial supremacy over the people’s Representatives in Congress and the Executive. It envisions a Supreme Court standing (or rather enthroned) at the apex of government, empowered to decide all constitutional questions, always and everywhere ‘primary’ in its role.”

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Phyllis Schlafly

We Should Reform Child Support

06/19/2013

President Obama’s Father’s Day speech included one provocative yet very declarative sentence: “We should reform our child support laws to get more men working and engaged with their children.” Obama didn’t elaborate, but we can build on what he said because, yes indeed, child support laws urgently need “reform.”

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Phyllis Schlafly

How the Government Breaks Up Marriages

08/22/2012

A very public marital melodrama is now playing in San Francisco. It shows the idiocy of domestic violence laws and the extremism of the feminists whose ideology paints men as innate batterers and women as victims of the patriarchy.

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Phyllis Schlafly

We Can’t Separate Social Policy from Tax Law

03/14/2012

The majority of Americans say they support traditional marriage, the union of a husband and a wife, and support children being raised by their parents who are married to each other. So why are we permitting our income tax law to discriminate against traditional marriage and against the right and need of children to have a father and a mother married to each other?

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Phyllis Schlafly

Phony Divide Between Fiscal & Social Issues

03/07/2012

The social issue of marriage, and its importance to our society, has become a tremendous fiscal issue. The problem of marriage absence is now costing the taxpayers even more than national defense.

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Phyllis Schlafly

We Need Pro-Family Tax Policies

01/18/2012

Why did Senator Rick Santorum suddenly surge to the status of a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President after having been treated like a not-to-be-taken-seriously contender in the many television debates? It’s not only because a significant segment of conservatives voted by a super majority to back him at a meeting in Houston last week.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Bailing out the European Union

01/11/2012

It was bad enough when President Obama bamboozled Congress into passing a Stimulus bill that didn’t produce any jobs, then increased the federal deficit in the 2012 omnibus spending bill, then raised the debt ceiling, then bailed out the big U.S. banks, then tried to bail out his pal Solyndra to try to save it from bankruptcy, and then appointed a Jobs Czar who creates jobs only in China. But it’s over the top when Obama told the European Council President and the European Commission President that “the United States stands ready to do our part” to bail out Europe.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Rick Perry’s Marriage Problems

11/02/2011

Does Rick Perry want to undermine traditional marriage? This question leaps out from his new 20 percent flat tax plan, which would eliminate all tax advantages for married couples in which one spouse is the primary breadwinner.

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Phyllis Schlafly

The High Costs of Marriage Absence

10/26/2011

Most Americans are unaware that about $700 Billion a year of federal taxpayers’ money is handed out to non-taxpayers allegedly below a poverty line (in addition to $250 Billion a year given out by the states). After Barack Obama became President, he increased federal welfare spending by a third because, as he promised during his campaign, he wants to “spread the wealth,” knowing that promotes dependence on government and votes for the Democrats.

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Phyllis Schlafly

The Cost to Taxpayers of Missing Fathers

06/17/2011

With Father’s Day coming up, we should ponder the sad plight of the 20 million American children who are growing up without their fathers in the home.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Lame Duck Judges Should Not Be Confirmed

12/10/2010

One of the greatest risks of the current Lame Duck Congress is the possibility of Senate confirmation of Obama’s radical appointments to federal courts, boards and agencies.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Judges Get Their Comeuppance

11/12/2010

The most important decision the voters made on November 2 may turn out to be Iowa sending out to pasture three state supreme court judges who had voted to make same-sex marriage constitutional, overriding the wishes of the people in Iowa and their elected representatives.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Marriage Is the Key to Spending Cuts

10/15/2010

The attack on the institution of marriage is not only the biggest cultural but also the biggest fiscal issue of our times, and political and judicial attacks by gays are only part of the problem.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Social Issues vs. Fiscal Issues

06/18/2010

Those who emphasize runaway government spending and out-of-control debt and deficits must face the fact that those trillions of dollars are being spent by government on social problems.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Some Pay, and Some Receive

04/23/2010

The news that the United States has become a two-class society, i.e., half of Americans pay federal income taxes and half don’t, has bounced around the media and shocked Americans.

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