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ADF Attorney Daniel Blomberg at LifeNews.com: Imagine that medicine allowed doctors to easily and safely remove babies from the womb long before birth and put them in some sort of artificial womb to complete their development. Now ask yourself if this technology would completely remove the market for killing the unborn. Answer? No. Why?

Christian Post: Daniel Blomberg, litigation staff council for the Alliance Defense Fund, says what the case is really about is “social engineering.” He says it sends a message that men and women are fundamentally interchangeable.

Christian Post: However, Daniel Blomberg of the litigation council at Alliance Defense Fund, told The Christian Post that repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and changing the fundamental definition of marriage will have serious consequences. “Different things should not be treated as the same. Gay marriage is not recognized by federal law and therefore does not mandate the same treatment as a heterosexual marriage that is. The repeal of DOMA is unlikely. Most states, when given the opportunity to do so, have written into their constitutions the definition of a marriage being between one man and one woman. Those state measures passed without any problems, most had 62 percent in favor. The majority of Americans recognize the importance of maintaining marriage as between a man and a woman.”

Sonoran News: “Unelected judges should rule in accord with the Constitution, not according to their own personal policy preferences, as one judge here has rightfully noted,” said ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Daniel Blomberg. “Every federal appellate court to consider precisely this issue has found no fundamental right to engage in homosexual conduct while employed in the military. Since the law was reasonably related to Congress’s goal of military cohesion, those courts always upheld the law as constitutional.” Circuit Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain agreed . . .

ADF Attorney Daniel Blomberg appeared on KFUO with Roland Lettner to discuss the threat to religious freedom that DADT poses. | MP3 audio 20:41 mins

ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg appeared with Roland Lettner on KFUO to discuss challenges to DOMA. | MP3 audio 22:10 mins

ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg on KPXQ with Tom Brown. | MP3 audio 12:20 mins

OneNewsNow.com: He appointed people who agree with him, and well, they agree with him — and so that’s what we’ve had here,” Blomberg explains. “Their certification was predetermined well before this issue was ever even looked at. And of course, well over 60 percent of the combat troops actually in the field predicted that this would harm the military to make this change.” [more quotes by Daniel Blomberg]

On Top Magazine: “Our troops’ religious liberties are in unprecedented jeopardy because the government has caved in to pressure from small groups of activists to impose homosexual and bisexual behavior in our military,” Daniel Blomberg of the Alliance Defense Fund said in a statement.

God Discussion: he Alliance Defense Fund, a legal advocacy group for the Christian right, also expressed disapproval. “Our troops’ religious liberties are in unprecedented jeopardy because the government has caved in to pressure from small groups of activists to impose homosexual and bisexual behavior on our military,” ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Daniel Blomberg said in a statement Friday.

The New American: The Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal advocacy group, issued a statement predicting that implementation of the repeal would negatively impact the religious freedoms of Christian and other military personnel who believe that homosexual behavior is morally wrong. “Our troops’ religious liberties are in unprecedented jeopardy because the government has caved in to pressure from small groups of activists to impose homosexual and bisexual behavior on our military,” declared ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Daniel Blomberg. “The first casualty of this disappointing move may well be the religious freedom of chaplains and service members, for whom no formal protections have been adopted despite many having been proposed.”

Christian Post: “Our troops’ religious liberties are in unprecedented jeopardy because the government has caved in to pressure from small groups of activists to impose homosexual and bisexual behavior on our military,” ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Daniel Blomberg said in a statement Friday.

Dakota Voice: Perkins wasn’t the only one who smelled something rotten in Denmark with this whole “certification” farce. Daniel Blomberg, Litigation Staff Counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund, issued this statement yesterday afternoon . . .

Michael Foust at Baptist Press: “If a federal court finds these persuasive for purposes of interpreting a federal statute, then when it comes to interpreting a state constitutional amendment [defining marriage], they’ll have the exact same analysis,” Daniel Blomberg, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund — which supports the Defense of Marriage Act — told Baptist Press. “It will be identical. The government’s argument here could certainly be used to strike down not only all of DOMA but to force this definition on all of the states.”

Law against openly practiced homosexual, bisexual behavior in U.S. military to end in 60 days, but records remain secret

Personal Liberty Digest: The Alliance Defense Fund will reportedly testify before the Senate in defense of DOMA. Daniel Blomberg, a lawyer for the organization, said that the Administration’s decision to support Feinstein’s bill was hypocritical.
“Our perspective is that it’s not only incorrect, but deeply disappointing, to have a politician claim support for marriage between one man and one woman on the campaign trail, then actively undermine that once in office,” he told the newspaper. “We are confident Congress will make the right decision here.”

Daniel Blomberg at the Speak Up Movement Church Blog: The President is using one time-honored preserver of our country—the military—to attack another—marriage. Defenders of marriage, though, should not be surprised. Marriage is so foundational an institution that it is related to most facets of life. Thus, for instance, defending marriage also means defending religious liberty. Now, due to the creativity of marriage’s attackers, it means defending the military itself.

Christian Post: “This move by the president and certain members of congress is disappointing in that it is attacking that fundamental building block for our society,” Blomberg told The Christian Post. “I see this as an attack on what 84 percent of Congress voted for in 1996 when they passed DOMA, and what 31 out of 31 states voted for when Americans had a chance to vote on this issue.” “Whether or not this is an endorsement [of gay marriage], which this seems to be very close to being, the fact is that the president is attacking what diverse cultures and faiths have recognized throughout history as the universal ideal, as the best way to promote healthy, natural families,” Blomberg said.

The Washington Post: Daniel Blomberg, an attorney for the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, denounced the administration’s decision. “Our perspective is that it’s not only incorrect, but deeply disappointing, to have a politician claim support for marriage between one man and one woman on the campaign trail, then actively undermine that once in office,” said Blomberg, whose organization will testify in support of DOMA during Wednesday’s Senate hearing. “We are confident Congress will make the right decision here.”

OneNewsNow.com (7/9): Daniel Blomberg is the litigation staff counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund. “…This decision…effectively stops the law from being in effect nationwide, worldwide,” says Blomberg. “So during a time of international conflict, our military is being forced by the judicial system — and unfortunately by the Obama administration’s Justice Department — to implement a change rapidly [that] they’re not prepared to implement. It’s a very disturbing development for our military.” [more]

AmLaw Daily: The Alliance Defense Fund, which represented proponents of Proposition 8 in California in Perry v. Brown (originally known as Perry v. Schwarzenegger), issued a statement expressing its own disappointment with the ruling. “From its inception, marriage in Wyoming for all purposes has been the union of one man and one woman,” litigation staff counsel Daniel Blomberg said in a statement. “It is disappointing that the Wyoming Supreme Court ignored Wyoming’s clear definition of marriage in favor of the definition of a foreign country.”

Christian Examiner: Attorneys for the Alliance Defense Fund proposed adding religious liberty protections but the law designed to dismantle the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy did not add any such protections. ADF has provided free legal support to many concerned chaplains and service members. “Service members should not be denied the very constitutional liberties they volunteered to defend,” said ADF legal counsel Daniel Blomberg. ”The alarm has been sounded time and time again in this process by those with the utmost credibility. The question is: Will our military leaders and elected officials listen?”

ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg appeared on the Georgene Rice Show to discuss the topic. | MP3 audio 10:40 mins

ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg appeared on Point of View Radio to discuss | MP3 audio 35:23 mins | Daniel’s photo is on the Point of View home page.

One News Now: Daniel Blomberg, litigation counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), says they want to preserve the constitutional status quo. “This issue is about making sure that no American, and especially those serving in our armed forces, are forced to deny or [are] marginalized for affirming their religious beliefs,” Blomberg explains. “And it’s certainly not right for those individuals to find themselves lacking the very liberties they’re protecting for the rest of us.”

Charisma: “Service members should not be denied the very constitutional liberties they volunteered to defend,” Daniel Blomberg, legal counsel for the ADF, said. “If this government truly cares about protecting religious liberties as it says it does, why has it been afraid to put it in writing?” “We strongly encourage the adoption of broad, clear, and strong protections for conscience,” the letter states. “Service members should know that chaplains’ ministry and their own rights of conscience remain protected everywhere military necessity has placed them.”

Family News in Focus Audio (5:25 mins, broadcast on 5/24/2011) covers several ADF related stories. ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg discusses the threat to chaplains in the military from the repeal of DADT (related ADF press release). ADF attorney Dale Schowengerdt discusses this: ADF: All students deserve to be protected from bullying. And, ADF attorney Nate Kellum discusses this: ADF tackles SUNY policies stifling free speech at Albany campus.

LJWorld.com: Daniel Blomberg, who represented the ADF, fielded the majority of the questions asked by concerned and interested residents. He said if gender identity were to pass in Lawrence, several privacy issues could come into play. “My focus is constitutional law and religious liberty,” Blomberg said. “At the end of the day, sometimes religious liberty is bad for business, it is, and it’s still the right thing to do.”

World Net Daily: The ADF said the county “agreed to a policy change to ensure that peaceful protesters will be protected from undergoing strip searches at the county detention center.” “Pro-life advocates should certainly not be strip searched for peacefully expressing their beliefs,” said Daniel Blomberg, litigation counsel for the ADF. “The county did the right thing by changing its policy so that pro-life advocates will no longer be subjected to such needless and embarrassing searches for lawfully exercising their First Amendment protected right to free speech.”

Alliance Defense Fund attorneys have secured a favorable partial settlement on behalf of pro-life advocates who were arrested, strip-searched, shackled, and jailed in Harford County in 2008. The county defendants agreed to a policy change to ensure that peaceful protesters will be protected from undergoing strip searches at the county detention center.

Several chaplaincy groups are urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to reverse a district judge’s decision to strike down part of a federal military readiness law that prohibited openly practiced homosexual behavior.

Brian Fitzpatrick writes at WorldNetDaily: Though they may be involved in implementing DADT repeal training, and their ministries will be directly affected, the chaplains still have no idea what the training will consist of, said Alliance Defense Fund attorney Daniel Blomberg. ADF, a defender of civil and religious liberties, represents both military chaplains and endorsers. “I have not heard anything regarding specifics,” said Blomberg. “A pastor would be free to preach his beliefs about homosexuality, according to the Pentagon, but you don’t know what a chaplain can do in a counseling situation or an ethical situation. Could a chaplain refuse to allow a married homosexual couple to participate in counseling for married couples, or refuse to hire a homosexual to be a children’s church teacher? None of these issues are being answered, and that’s a real problem.”

National Catholic Register: “‘We will be closely monitoring the repealed law’s replacement with new regulations that will prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual harassment,’ [ADF Attorney Daniel Blomberg] said the day before Obama signed the bill. ‘Such regulations [in civilian life] have been shown to be applied quite broadly, and used to squelch the free expression of one’s religious liberty. We expect this to be especially problematic in the military, which forges the closest of all relationships between the government and a “private citizen,” who really isn’t a private citizen [but swears an oath to obey the president and his military superiors]. There’s no comparable vocation in American life.’”

In the Moment Magazine: “In a letter posted online, several Orthodox rabbis condemn Sen. Lieberman for his position on DADT . . . not every Jew supports the repeal of DADT. They point to the perceived friction between LGBT rights and conservative orthopraxy. ‘What happens when the chaplain responds according to the dictates of his faith and says that type of behavior—like other types of sexual sins—is not in accordance with God’s will?’ asks [Daniel Blomberg], an attorney for the conservative legal group Alliance Defense Fund.”

LifeNews: “Harford County officials have settled a case involving a federal lawsuit attorneys filed on behalf of pro-life women who were shackled and strip searched after peacefully protesting abortion in Maryland . . . ‘Pro-life advocates shouldn’t be handcuffed and arrested for expressing their beliefs,’ said ADF Litigation Counsel [Daniel Blomberg]. ‘The 4th Circuit’s decision is a positive development for our clients, who deserve justice after what they endured.’”

Christian Post: “President Barack Obama called for swift implementation of the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal as he signed the legislation into law on Wednesday . . . ‘The first official casualty of this hurried vote may well be the religious freedom of chaplains and service members,’ said [Daniel Blomberg], litigation counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund in a statement Tuesday.”

WORLD Mag: “Will chaplains be allowed to preach on what the Bible says about homosexuality without being accused of hate speech? Will conservative denominations pull their endorsement of chaplains? . . . ‘We hope that our nation’s leaders will work to ensure that none of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are ever made to choose between serving their country or obeying their God as result of this damaging policy decision,’ said Alliance Defense Fund’s [Daniel Blomberg].”

Michael Foust reports at Baptist Press: “‘No Americans, and especially not our troops, should be forced to abandon their religious beliefs,’ Alliance Defense Fund attorney [Daniel Blomberg] said in a statement. ‘We hope that our nation’s leaders will work to ensure that none of our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines are ever made to choose between serving their country or obeying their God as result of this damaging policy decision. And ADF stands ready to defend service members if they are ever unconstitutionally required to make that choice.’”

WorldNetDaily: “On the legal front, the Alliance Defense Fund is preparing to defend the religious liberty of chaplains and service members. ‘Our concern is that chaplains and others will find their ability to work in the military will depend on their ability to censor themselves,’ said ADF Litigation Staff Counsel [Daniel Blomberg].”

Charisma Mag: “Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) Litigation Counsel [Daniel Blomberg] says the Senate’s cave-in to pressure from activists to impose homosexual behavior on our military will place our troops’ religious liberties in unprecedented jeopardy.”

USA Today: “The Alliance Defense Fund’s [Daniel Blomberg] argues that by bowing to activists, the Senate is placing the religious liberty of troops and chaplains in ‘unprecedented jeopardy . . . No Americans, and especially not our troops, should be forced to abandon their religious beliefs. We hope that our nation’s leaders will work to ensure that none of our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines are ever made to choose between serving their country or obeying their God.’”

Christian Post: “In the aftermath of the 65-31 Senate vote that did away with the 1993 ban on open homosexuality in the armed forces, religious legal defense group Alliance Defense Fund predicts that military chaplains will be the first to feel the effects of the repeal. ‘The first official casualty of this hurried vote may well be the religious freedom of chaplains and service members,’ said ADF Litigation Counsel [Daniel Blomberg] in a statement.”

OneNewsNow: “[T]he conservative legal group, Alliance Defense Fund, issued a statement after the vote saying ‘The Senate’s cave-in to pressure from activists to impose homosexual behavior on our military will place our troops’ religious liberties in unprecedented jeopardy. Indeed, the first official casualty of this hurried vote may well be the religious freedom of chaplains and Service members.’”

USA Today / Faith and Reason blog: “Sunday morning brings the conservative evangelical voices with dire predictions for its impact on military chaplains . . . The Alliance Defense Fund’s [Daniel Blomberg] argues that by bowing to activists, the Senate is placing the religious liberty of troops and chaplains in ‘unprecedented jeopardy.’”

Catholic News Agency: “Opponents of the repeal warned it will turn the military into a tool to impose “a radical social agenda” on the country . . . In a November interview, [Daniel Blomberg] of the Alliance Defense Fund said that under a repeal of the policy on homosexuals, one of those military goals will include support for ‘incorporating and supporting homosexual behavior in the military.’”

OneNewsNow: “The conservative legal group, Alliance Defense Fund, issued a statement after the vote saying ‘The Senate’s cave-in to pressure from activists to impose homosexual behavior on our military will place our troops’ religious liberties in unprecedented jeopardy. Indeed, the first official casualty of this hurried vote may well be the religious freedom of chaplains and Service members.’ ADF Litigation Counsel, [Daniel Blomberg], went on to say ‘no Americans, and especially not our troops, should be forced to abandon their religious beliefs.’”

Catholic News Agency: “Its success or failure depends upon whether it is scheduled for a Senate vote as Congress comes to a close . . . [Daniel Blomberg] of the Alliance Defense Fund, a repeal opponent, told CNA in November that chaplains are concerned that religious faith ‘will be discriminated against in favor of the new political correctness that will be imposed by the Obama administration.’”

Christian Post: “‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ proponents were handed another victory Thursday as the 17-year old ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military was narrowly spared in a Senate vote . . . [Daniel Blomberg], an attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund, told NPR that chaplains could be charged with discrimination based on sexual orientation if they expressed that homosexual behavior is not in accordance with God’s will. ‘And that could be career-ending for a chaplain,’ he told the radio program.”

NPR: “[Daniel Blomberg], an attorney for the conservative legal group Alliance Defense Fund, wonders: What if a soldier confides to a chaplain that he’s gay? ‘What happens when the chaplain responds according to the dictates of his faith and says that type of behavior — like other types of sexual sins — is not in accordance with God’s will?’ he says.” | Article includes audio.

Catholic News Agency: “While the chaplains’ opposition to the policy change includes concerns with issues like military readiness, their specific concern is that religious faith ‘will be discriminated against in favor of the new political correctness that will be imposed by the Obama administration,’ [ADF Attorney Daniel Blomberg] added. Asked about reports that active chaplains can be accused of insubordination if they publicly oppose changes to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ the ADF attorney said that the servicemen have been informed through their chain of command that ‘they should not be commenting on this at this time.’”

OneNewsNow: “The [4th Circuit] recently [denied] several state police officers’ request for immunity from a lawsuit that stems from an incident in August 2008 when they handcuffed and arrested a group of peaceful pro-lifers. . . . [ADF Attorney Daniel Blomberg] says that request was made before his group ‘even had a chance to undergo discovery. Before we had a chance to really get into the case, the courts would just kick out this portion of the plaintiff’s complaint against them.’”

LifeNews: “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit issued a ruling on Monday upholding a district court decision that denied the request of several Maryland state police officers to be immune from a lawsuit filed by Alliance Defense Fund attorneys representing pro-life advocates . . . ‘Pro-life advocates shouldn’t be handcuffed and arrested for expressing their beliefs,’ said ADF Litigation Counsel [Daniel Blomberg]. ‘The 4th Circuit’s decision is a positive development for our clients, who deserve justice after what they endured.’”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Monday upheld a district court decision that denied the request of several Maryland state police officers to be immune from a lawsuit filed by Alliance Defense Fund attorneys representing pro-life advocates. The officers handcuffed and arrested 18 pro-life advocates for sharing a peaceful pro-life message along a public street in August 2008.

One News Now: Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is dubious about how committed the Justice Department really is to defending traditional marriage . . . ADF attorney [Daniel Blomberg] tells OneNewsNow he is pleased that the DOJ will move to protect traditional marriage, but notes its defense of DOMA in the lower courts was not well presented . . . (Daniel is quoted).

ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg appeared on the Mike Gallagher Show to discuss ADF’s involvement in defending Arkansas’ adoption law. | MP3 audio 6:11 mins

ADF Attorney Daniel Blomberg appeared on Currents to discuss the effect of DADT repeal on religious freedom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0htIbjhyyE8

The number of highly distinguished veteran chaplains expressing religious liberty concerns over any dismantling of the military’s policy against openly practiced homosexual behavior has increased with the addition of numerous signatures to a letter to President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates. The 66 signers, up from 41 in April, have given a combined total of nearly 1,700 years of U.S. military service.

ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg on KFUO with Roland Lettner to discuss some of the ramifications of the Proposition 8 marriage ruling.  | MP3 24:18 mins

OneNewsNow: “The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has received assurance from the Alabama Community College System that it will no longer make demands on Bethany Divinity College and Seminary to cease offering its associate and bachelor programs in religion, ministry, theological studies, and Bible. ‘The Alabama Board of Education was requiring a purely religious school to become licensed with the state . . . ” explains ADF’s [Daniel Blomberg], the attorney handling the case.”

ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg appeared on the Janet Mefferd Show to discuss the status of the Cal. marriage litigation. | MP3 17:42 mins

OneNewsNow: “‘Refusing to stay the decision only created more legal confusion surrounding any sort of unions that would have been created while the appeal was pending,’ [ADF Attorney Daniel Blomberg] explains, ‘so the Ninth Circuit clearly made the right call . . . This case has just begun, and ADF and the rest of the legal team are confident the right of Americans to protect marriage in their state constitutions will ultimately be upheld.’”

ChristianWebNews: “‘The government should not attempt to regulate religious programs that are specifically exempt under state law,’ said ADF Senior Litigation Staff Counsel [Daniel Blomberg]. ‘The Alabama Community College System did the right thing here by finally deciding to recognize Bethany’s right to offer associate and bachelor degree levels in its religious programs. State law does not regulate programs that only offer religious degrees, which are the only degrees Bethany Divinity College and Seminary offers.’”

ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg appeared on the Rob Schilling Show to discuss the Cal. marriage litigation. | MP3 10:08 mins | Among others, the broadcast includes discussion of the following recurring questions. 1. Should the state get out of the marriage business? 2. A recent study showed that homosexual parents do just as well as biological parents. How do you respond? 3. It doesn’t matter if the majority opposes marriage redefinition. If it violates the Constitution, the judge can overrule the vote? How do you respond?

“State had ordered divinity college, seminary to stop offering degrees despite agency’s lack of authority.”

ADF attorney Jordan Lorence appeared on KNX 1070. MP3 2:24 mins. | ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg appeared on Fox 40 Live TV by phone. MP4 2:31 mins

Daniel Blomberg on KTXL Fox 40 (Video) – MP4 4:37 mins | Sara Tappen on the Georgene Rice Show – MP3 10:02 mins | Jim Campbell with David Lazarus on 89.3 KPCC, S. Cal. Public Radio – MP3 4:19 mins | Jim Campbell on KMJ with Chris Daniel – MP3 8 mins | Jim Campbell on KGO –  MP3 4:59 mins.

Daniel Blomberg appeared on the Jody Hice Show to provide an update on efforts to normalize homosexual behavior in the military.  | MP3 16:50 mins | ADF Media resource page

Baptist Press: “Nearly 50 percent of likely voters back the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy on open homosexual military service, according to a new poll that conflicts with other surveys showing far lower support . . . [Daniel Blomberg], an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, said he was encouraged by the poll’s results. ‘The majority of Americans really have a high level of respect for the religious liberty rights of our chaplains and of our service members,’ Blomberg said.”

Family Research Council: “Family Research Council President Tony Perkins will participate in a news conference call today at 11 AM ET to discuss the release of a new survey by the Center for Military Readiness gauging the opinions of likely voters on the Defense Authorization bill’s amendments forcing open homosexuality on the military and turning military hospitals into abortion facilities.” [The call includes Daniel Blomberg, Litigation Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund]

” . . . a recent account from an active-duty U.S. chaplain working with one of those militaries shows religious liberty will not fare well in the face of normalized homosexual conduct.”

Crosswalk: “‘It’s not just marriage that was put on trial,’ said [Daniel Blomerg], an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, ‘but the fundamental freedom of having your vote count and having the liberty to express and live by your religious beliefs. It’s pretty shocking.’”

Jim Campbell on AFR Focal Point just before the ruling was handed down.  MP3  9:21 mins |  Jordan Lorence on the Janet Mefferd Show just before the ruling was handed down. Jordan indicated he was not on pins and needles before yesterday’s ruling, because the Judge had tipped his hand well in advance of yesterday’s ruling.  MP3 18:39 mins | Daniel Blomberg on KQED Northern California Public Radio after the ruling was handed down.  Daniel responds to several of the judge’s contentions in his ruling. MP3 6:27 mins |  Doug Napier with Tim Conway, Jr. on KFI 640 am. Its of the judge by the judge and for the judge. The ruling has no basis in law or history. MP3 6:18 mins | Austin R. Nimocks with Bret Burkhart & Chris Brecher-KGO 810AM SF.  Why is the ruling dangerous? According to the judge, we are all irrational bigots now.  MP3 3:47 min

“One San Francisco judge ordering it so was an arbitrary, heavy-handed act with no other basis than a demand from a powerful activist group. Unless this is overturned, the same playbook will be used to try to institutionalize group marriages, polygamy, and every other iteration of human relationships until marriage is utterly obliterated.”

The Christian Post: “Alliance Defense Fund attorney [Daniel Blomberg], similarly, called the judge’s decision ‘pretty shocking’ because the trial is not only about marriage but about the ‘fundamental freedom of having your vote count and having the liberty to express and live by your religious beliefs.’”

Diane Singer writing at BreakPoint: “‘The small group of activists who are pushing to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” are conveniently ignoring the dramatic legal impact of the legislation upon the religious liberties of thousands of chaplains and service members,’ said ADF litigation counsel [Daniel Blomberg]. ‘The nature of the proposed repeal is an alarming signal that religious liberty, free speech, and even national security have taken a back seat to the homosexual legal agenda.’”