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N.H. 6th state to legalize ?gay marriage?

By ADF Alliance Alert

Baptist Press: The New Hampshire governor is right to recognize the threat to religious liberty posed by same-sex marriage, but he underestimates the threat by a long shot," Austin R. Nimocks, an attorney with the legal organization Alliance Defense Fund, told Baptist Press. "The protections he proposes do not cover business owners and individuals with religious objections to same-sex marriage, and these are exactly the kind of cases that the Alliance Defense Fund is having to defend." Legalizing "gay marriage" also negatively impacts children, Nimocks said. "All non-partisan research and plain common sense tells us that children need a mom and dad, so the issue is bigger than a 'personal relationship,'" he said. "In the end, the question is this: Which parent doesn't matter: a mom or a dad?"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 03, 2009 (boomark / email).