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1. Focus on the Words 'Right' and 'Marriage' So much of the argument for gay marriage is based on the idea of equal rights for all. An easy response is to state that you fully support equal rights for everyone -- to free speech, to association, to any legitimate human right. Of course, you then clarify that the freedom to marry is not a right. A few quick examples should show why: Marrying an already-married person is illegal. If marriage were a right, then this restriction would be unjust and should be illegal. All states restrict certain persons from marrying...

Grow Up! An Obamafied American Idol Christmas. By Mark Steyn I was at the mall two days before Christmas, and it was strangely quiet. So quiet that, sadly, I was able to hear every word of Kelly Clarkson bellowing over the sound system “My Grown-Up Christmas List.” Don’t get me wrong — I love seasonal songs. “Winter Wonderland” — I dig it. “Rudolph” — man, he’s cool, albeit not as literally as Frosty. But “Grown-Up Christmas List” is one of those overwrought ballads of melismatic bombast made for the American Idol crowd. It’s all about how the singer now eschews...

An article in the The Australian relates how Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology is reportedly calling on doctors to consider euthanasing "the sickest of newborns" which it says can disable healthy families.