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...Montana Voter Guide’s official statement from the proponents of the marriage amendment warned of dire consequences if the initiative failed: “Every public school in Montana would be required to teach your children that same-sex marriage and homosexuality are perfectly normal. Natural marriage is extremely important for future generations. Men and women are distinctly different. Each gender brings vitally important, and unique, elements to a child’s development. Saying that children don’t necessarily need fathers or mothers is saying that one gender or the other is unnecessary. A loving...
...Arnold has already squandered his chance to meet California’s most serious challenge: paying off over $22 billion in debt—caused not only by the (Texas power company-induced) energy crisis, and the collapse of capital gains revenue from Silicon Valley, but also by costly voter initiatives, promoted by selfish special-interests, that mandated an uncontrollable spending explosion. By law, no California governor can touch the Prop 98-guaranteed 40 percent of the budget directed to an ineffective—and ever-growing—education bureaucracy, and the teachers’ unions it benefits...
...often, I have watched Harvard students dismiss the council as a high school student council on steroids, with responsibilities ranging from movie nights to writing bad checks for student groups. Low voter turnout shows that people feel like they do not have a stake in the council—despite the fact that this is the most opportune time for change in the past three decades...
...this season's postelection pulse taking, morality re-emerged as a top voter concern. But it has been a consistent theme for the Rev. Billy Graham, 86, preacher to millions over six decades and counselor to 10 Presidents. TIME's Sonja Steptoe caught up with him as he embarked on what will probably be his final round of crusades, beginning last weekend at the Rose Bowl...
Your article "Trhanslating Faith into Spanish" [Oct. 25] contained an important error about Focus on the Family's Hispanic voter-registration initiative. You said our group is taking the wedge issues of abortion, same-sex marriage and stem-cell research and emphasizing them with Hispanic voters in an attempt "to try to sway the Hispanic vote for George Bush." As a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code, our voter-registration efforts for both Hispanic and general audiences are nonpartisan. We cannot and do not advocate for or against one candidate or party. GLENN WILLIAMS...