Ken Klukowski writing at Townhall: "[The] Supreme Court dealt a setback to supporters of traditional marriage. But it’s not the defeat that gay-rights supporters (and many of their fans on the media) are hailing it as, and leaves open the possibility that traditional-marriage supporters may be the ones celebrating at the end. ... The record of atrocious harassment in the wake of California’s Proposition 8 makes perfectly clear that these marriage supporters can make a strong case that they could be harassed. As such, by the standard the Court announced today, the marriage supporters should win."

Washington Times editorial: "Solicitor General Elena Kagan is too political, too leftist, too inexperienced and too disrespectful towards existing law to be confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court. ... We know she is remarkably lacking in courtroom experience. ... We know she deliberately ignored the law while at Harvard, and unfairly besmirched our military in time of war. ... We know she cut corners in order to preserve partial-birth abortions. ... We know she is willing to undercut First Amendment free speech for political purposes. ... We know Ms. Kagan is hostile to gun rights. ... We know she believes foreign law is highly relevant to U.S. law. ... We know she believes judges should automatically favor certain classes of people and impose their own values to reach desired outcomes."

"Those who advocate changing it to recognize same-sex unions are not proposing a formal change in the law that will leave the institution unaltered even as it grants more people access to it. Rather, they seek a substantive change to the institution based on a new understanding of human sexuality."

WBZ: "Provincetown school officials are going to keep working on a new policy allowing local students -- even those in elementary school -- to receive free condoms without their parents' knowledge."

Minnesota Independent: "This weekend four of the five major party candidates for governor will be at Pride, and while one important Republican — Tom Emmer — will be missing, a fellow GOPer is taking the opportunity to show that not all Republicans share views with the religious right."

OneNewsNow: "A college student in New York is once again getting the run-around from school officials for trying to express his religious views on campus. ... Hayon, president of the student Republican Club, wanted to hold an on-campus forum entitled 'The Economic, Political, Social, and Legal Outcome on Same-Gender Marriage' to defend the definition of marriage as one man and one woman. ... [ADF Attorney Travis Barham said] '[t]here's a rule at Kingsborough that says the student group has to have a faculty advisor present at every event. The faculty advisor took advantage of that rule to insist that students give him a speaking role and give him the authority to shut down the event at anytime.'"

ADF Attorney Daniel Blomberg writing at Speak Up Movement / Church: "So what if Congress forces the military makes homosexual behavior normal? Isn’t that just a military issue? Why should average Americans care at all? Because this change will change America. Why is that? For at least two reasons. First, the military is a repository of American culture—it reflects, in a single institution, many of the highest values our society respects. ... [T]he second point: perhaps the only institution more deeply respected and widely recognized as the training ground for inculcating societal values than the military is marriage. And normalizing homosexual conduct in the military will not only—as an ACLU attorney recently stated—be a cultural precursor to normalizing homosexual 'marriage,' it will actually create the perfect storm for destroying the primary federal law protecting marriage—the Defense of Marriage Act ('DOMA')."

New York Law School Professor Arthur S. Leonard analyzes Doe v. Reed, No. 09-559 (U.S. June 24, 2010) at LeonardLink: "My quick summary - Concur by Sotomayor with Ginsburg and Stevens - it should be difficult for plaintiffs to keep the names confidential; Concur by Alito - it should be easy for the plaintiffs to keep the names confidential; Concur by Stevens and Breyer - it should be difficult for plaintiffs to keep the names confidential; Concur by Scalia - originalist view of the First Amendment and characterization of petition signers as actually being involved in 'legislating' means there is only a weak First Amendment interest, if any, in keeping these names confidential. So Scalia is sees no problem with the statute, as such, and is very unfavorably disposed to the second claim. Dissent by Thomas - Strong First Amendment protection for privacy of petition signers, so statute violates the First Amendment. Interesting to see Thomas and Scalia sharply split.

ChristianNewsWire: "While any number of our co-religionists would represent the undeniable, historic Torah values shared by Orthodox and traditional Jews, we are devastated and broken-hearted by the choice of Elena Kagan. According to the Torah perspective adhered to by our 850-plus member Rabbis, as well as hundreds of thousands of Orthodox and traditional Jews, MS. KAGAN IS NON-KOSHER - NOT FIT TO SERVE - ON THE SUPREME COURT, OR ANY OTHER COURT."

Metropolitan News-Enterprise: "'The marriage relation is the foundation of all society, and is not to be severed on slight ground or for trivial causes. The policy of the law, therefore, is against granting divorces.' That pronouncement came in a 1902 California Supreme Court opinion. ... Nowadays, by contrast, a marriage is thought of by many as a transitory state in one’s life journey, with marital vows being but a tentative statement of present intent. The posture of the law with respect to divorce has been since the advent of a 'no-fault' system in 1970: 'You want it, you got it.'"

"True, 49 other states have adopted no-fault divorce. But New York would be unwise to discard a law has produced almost the lowest divorce rate in America."

Rose McDermott, Nicholas A. Christakis, and James H. Fowler, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too: Social Network Effects on Divorce in a Longitudinal Sample Followed for 32 Years (October 18, 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1490708 "Divorce is the dissolution of a social tie, but it is also possible that attitudes about divorce flow across social ties. To explore how social networks influence divorce and vice versa, we utilize a longitudinal data set from the long-running Framingham Heart Study. We find that divorce can spread between friends, siblings, and coworkers, and there are clusters of divorcees that extend two degrees of separation in the network. We also find that popular people are less likely to get divorced, divorcees have denser social networks, and they are much more likely to remarry other divorcees. Interestingly, we do not find that the presence of children influences the likelihood of divorce, but we do find that each child reduces the susceptibility to being influenced by peers who get divorced. Overall, the results suggest that attending to the health of one’s friends’ marriages serves to support and enhance the durability of one’s own relationship, and that, from a policy perspective, divorce should be understood as a collective phenomenon that extends far beyond those directly affected." Via Ross Douthat.

LifeSiteNews: "Second marriages are more than 90% more likely to break up than first marriages, according to a new study by Australian researchers. The researchers also found that cohabiting, having children before marrying, and an imbalance between partners in the desire for children are all correlated with marital breakup." | What’s love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability | Dr Rebecca Kippen, Professor Bruce Chapman, and Dr Peng Yu

NPR | Planet Money: "A middle-income, two-parent family will spend $222,360, on average, to raise a baby born in 2009, according to a government estimate released today."

New York Times: "Father’s Day brings this offering of a dubious milestone: Husbands are now just as stressed out as their harried wives. ... Just last week, Boston College released a study called 'The New Dad' suggesting that new fathers face a subtle bias in the workplace, which fails to recognize their stepped-up family responsibilities and presumes that they will be largely unaffected by children. ... Fathers also seem more unhappy than mothers with the juggling act: In dual-earner couples, 59 percent of fathers report some level of 'work-life conflict,' compared with about 45 percent of women, according to a 2008 report from the Families and Work Institute in New York."

ADF attorney Jeremy Tedesco appeared on the Drew Mariani Show (Relevant Radio) to discuss the Arizona school choice litigation pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. | MP3 10:16 mins | ADF Media information page

ADF attorney Jordan Lorence on Point of View Radio to discuss the Proposition 8 Trial. | MP3 9:44 mins

"After the couple broke up in 2008, the woman identified in court records only as Wendy wanted to be named a legal guardian of them. Her partner objected."

Associated Press: "Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says he objects to a new policy in Provincetown allowing even elementary school students to receive free condoms, and to do so without telling their parents."

"In a continuation of their presidential-primary struggle for the position of strongest supporter of homosexuality, both President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have been straining in recent months to show their supporters that they will march in step with the full gamut of the 'gay rights' agenda." | Related: Remarks by the President at LGBT Pride Month reception; Obama promises to push on “gay rights” issues; Mississippi Lesbian Banned From Prom But Invited to White House; Presidential Proclamation–Father’s Day; Record number of LGBT staff in Obama administration | Hillary Clinton: Remarks at an event celebrating LGBT Month; “Clinton vows to fight for gay rights abroad”; Clinton to extend benefits to “gay partners” in Foreign Service; Homosexual agenda unveiled in Hillary confirmation hearing