By Peyton Majors Christian Action League December 21, 2022 A county-level chapter of the North Carolina Republican Party has censured the state’s two U.S. senators over their support for same-sex marriage and is urging the state party to do the same. The Granville County Republican Party passed the resolution this month censuring Sens. Richard Burr […]
Same-Sex Marriage
Legislators Who Supported Same-Sex Marriage Must ‘Answer to the Almighty,’ Bishop Patrick Wooden Says
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League December 16, 2022 Politicians who voted to codify same-sex marriage in federal law this month will answer to God for their immoral actions, says a long-time Raleigh pastor. “The God of the Bible has the last say,” said Bishop Patrick Wooden Sr., pastor of Raleigh’s Upper Room Church of […]
Brody Calls for Showdown Over Tillis Violation of Republican Party Platform
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League December 11, 2022 “Our laws and our government’s regulations should recognize marriage as the union of one man and one woman and actively promote married family life as the basis of a stable and prosperous society.” — These words appear in the National Republican Party Platform. Similarly, the state […]
The Respect for Marriage Act: The Future of Marriage, the Republican Party, and American Culture
Christian Action League CAL Staff December 8, 2022 Today the U.S. House approved HR 8404 – The Respect for Marriage Act, which codifies same-sex marriage into federal law. President Joe Biden has promised to sign the legislation. In response, Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League, said passage of the bill was […]
U.S. Senate Repeals ‘Defense of Marriage Act’ Supplants it with Misnamed ‘Respect for Marriage Act’
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League December 1, 2022 The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted 61-36 to pass the so-called Respect for Marriage Act, an attempt to codify same-sex marriage into federal law and, in the process, trample religious liberty for those who believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. The bill, […]
Rev. Mark Creech Issues Statement on Senate Passage of ‘Respect for Marriage Act’
Christian Action League November 29, 2022 I remember that kick-in-the-gut feeling I had when, after more than 12 years of my own sweat and toil to preserve marriage in this state as one man and woman, one federal judge overturned everything – only one. Later five judges on the U.S. Supreme Court did the same […]
Sen. Tillis Likely to Vigorously Defend His Support for ‘RFMA,’ But Trusted Conservative Christian Voices Say the Bill is Very Bad
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League November 18, 2022 The full passage of the misnamed “Respect for Marriage Act” (RFMA) in the U.S. Senate and then the House seems likely if enough Republicans don’t come to their senses. The measure got through a cloture vote in the Senate, 62-37, and 12 Republicans made it […]
‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Moves Forward: ‘Completely Blowing Up the Understanding of Marriage’
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League November 18, 2022 “Marriage is the nucleus of social order. If marriage fails, the home fails. If the home fails, so does the nation,” said The Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League, in the wake of this week’s Senate vote to advance HR 8404. “This […]
Statement on Vote to Advance So-Called ‘Respect for Marriage Act’
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League November 16, 2022 Today, the U.S. Senate voted to advance HR 8404 – Respect for Marriage Act – legislation that will codify same-sex marriage into federal law. The vote, 62-37, included every Democrat and 12 Republicans, two of which were both of North Carolina’s U.S. Senators Burr and […]
LGBTQ Candidates Get Elected, as do Folks Like Desantis, Abbott, and Ivey. Obergfell Trounced in Ohio Race
By L.A. Williams, M.H. Cavanaugh Christian Action League November 11, 2022 A rainbow wave — that’s what the LGBTQ Victory Fund is calling the mid-term elections, touting that a record number of LGBTQ candidates won their races (400 or so this year as opposed to 334 in 2020). Even so, many incumbents who refused to […]