‘Maurine Proctor’ Archives
Ousting the Iowa Judges who Ruled for Same-Sex Marriage
By Maurine Proctor In an election week of upheavals, designed by voters to send notice of their dismay with the government, one of the more stunning victories was the ousting of three Iowa judges who overturned the state's same-sex marriage ban. Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and justices David Baker and Michael Streit were voted off the bench in [...]
Senate Votes Tomorrow on Three Bad Provisions in Defense Authorization Bill
Liberty Alerts, Family Leader, Maurine Proctor Tuesday (tomorrow) the senate is voting to end debate (cloture) and move the 2011 Defense Authorization bill to the floor for a full vote. Three controversial provisions in this bill require your immediate action to defeat this bill as it stands. The three provisions are: A current abortion [...]
Judge Walker’s Agenda
By Maurine Proctor Gay "marriage" is on hold for now in California, thanks to the Ninth Circuit's stay on Judge Walker's ruling. If the Ninth Circuit hadn't granted a stay of Judge Vaughn Walker's judgment in overturning California's Prop 8 marriage definition amendment, California would have begun issuing same-sex marriage licenses Wednesday, [...]
Judge Walker Rejects Prop 8 Stay Request
By Maurine Proctor One outrageous thing after another continues to happen in the Prop 8 case in California. This just in: Judge Vaughn Walker has denied the motion of Prop 8 proponents for a stay on his unbelievable ruling overturning Prop 8 until it can be reviewed by a higher court. In other words, he has ruled that same-sex marriages can [...]
Something is Rotten in the State of Massachusetts
By Maurine Proctor In a recent decision, a U.S. District Court judge in Boston ruled the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional stating that it interfered with a state's right to define marriage. What we have here is a judge trying to play legislator. DOMA was passed in 1996 by an overwhelming majority of seventy-four percent in the [...]
Is Media Deceny Unconstitutional?
By Maurine Proctor Two recent developments bring into question what the Founders intended when they penned the First Amendment's clause regarding free speech. For example, did they intend for your 13-year old to be able to receive sexually explicit texts or for an unsuspecting viewer of network television to be surprised with profanity or a [...]
Coming Soon…Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Clinics — Maurine Proctor
By Maurine Proctor What if I told you that 423 taxpayer funded abortion clinics could be open for business virtually overnight! No, this is not courtesy of Obamacare, it's courtesy of the military. If the annual appropriation bill for the Department of Defense (DOD), aka the military, passes the Senate in its current form, that will be exactly [...]
Sex-Ed for Kindergarteners? — Maurine Proctor
By Maurine Proctor Do you want your five or six-year-old learning about sex at school? What we're seeing in Montana is proving to be a trend throughout the country. The Helena Public School system in Montana is coming under fire for a proposed plan to teach sex education to students in kindergarten through 12th grade. According to Fox News, "it [...]
Prop 8 Judge Concerns — Maurine Proctor
by Maurine Proctor Ed Whelan, who writes on a blog for National Review, is closely watching the anti-Proposition 8 in San Francisco, and makes some important observations. He says that the U.S. Supreme Court's order barring the broadcast of the trial this week not only derails Judge Vaughn Walker's intention of turning this into a " high-profile, [...]
Prop 8 Trial — No Broadcast Says Supreme Court — Maurine Proctor
by Maurine Proctor Following up on its Monday interim order, the U.S. Supreme Court this afternoon issued an order barring the broadcasting of the trial against Proposition 8 in California by a vote of 5-4. This comes as a relief to Proposition 8 advocates who believe that broadcasting the trial would turn this into a circus, with those [...]
