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An organization representing more than 2,000 of the nation’s 5,000 military chaplains announced Wednesday they would join forces with Catholic Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for Military Service, saying they will not perform same-sex ceremonies. The 2,000 members of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, a group of evangelical clergy, are concerned about the Pentagon’s memorandum – issued 10 days after the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal took effect – that authorizes chaplains to officiate “any private ceremony.” A Sept. 20 order lifted the military’s long-standing DADT policy, allowing homosexuals to openly serve in the armed forces. While the...

Last fall, Ron Crews ran for Congress in Massachusetts against four-time incumbent James McGovern of the Third District. Crews brought significant experience, credentials, and resources to the campaign. He had served in the state senate in Georgia. He had headed the Massachusetts Family Institute for four years (a position he resigned to campaign), where he became the go-to guy for conservative comment on family issues not only in the state, but nationwide. He had reasonably good name and face recognition (if you watch cable news, you've seen Crews). An experienced speaker and leader, Crews is nationally known as a lifelong...

May 17 was, in the words of Ron Crews of the Massachusetts Family Institute, “a day of mourning.” For on that day, Massachusetts officials began marrying man to man, and woman to woman. Those who brought about this state of affairs claim to believe in “equality” and to be “democrats,” but in fact are elites who will have nothing of equality, let alone democracy. Five elite groups brought about same-sex marriage, which is however not an unalterable condition: Activist judges, the establishment media, ultraliberal elected officials, gay activist organizations and the homosexual activist, “shadow government.” In the Supreme Court’s June...

Ronald A. Crews, the former Georgia state lawmaker who has spearheaded the push to ban gay marriage in Massachusetts, has taken initial steps to run as a Republican for the congressional seat now held by US Representative James P. McGovern, a four-term Democrat, state officials said yesterday. On Thursday, Crews, who moved to Ashland roughly three years ago to head the Massachusetts Family Institute, pulled paperwork to gather signatures required to seek the GOP nomination, said a spokesman for Secretary of State William F. Galvin

Print Article         Close Window     A Georgia Preacher Takes on Massachusetts By Published 4/16/2004 12:05:00 AM "Gay Marriage Foe Eyes Run for House," blared the Boston Globe's front-page headline on April 10. Local radio stations picked up on it the same day. The "Foe" is Ron Crews, president of Massachusetts Family Institute, the leading advocacy organization for family issues in Massachusetts, and, thanks to Crews, one of the most prominently quoted and referenced such organizations in the country. When the news broke, Crews, a former state senator from Georgia who moved to Massachusetts four years ago, had just...