Other Western countries have ended their "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policies.
John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."
"The president of the United States ... agrees with me" that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
The Rev. Rick Warren "has called Christians who advance a social gospel Marxists."
"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."
"As a state senator, he (Obama) even refused to support a measure to stop sex businesses from opening near schools or places of worship!"
Obama supports "teaching schoolchildren — in 2nd grade, no less — about homosexual relationships."
"He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy."
"He's (Romney) the one who said that he would be to the left of Teddy Kennedy on gay rights."
"In the African-American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock."
"I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment."
"I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage."
In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage "have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock."
"Currently, we're at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock."
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