(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling today in Obergefell v. Hodges:
Today’s decision shows that the Supreme Court can be a
danger to our republican form of government. The opinion authored by
Justice Kennedy is not constitutional, is unmoored from law and
precedent — and is invalid. The exercise of raw judicial power by five
justices should be resisted under law and overturned. Justices Kennedy,
Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan abused their public offices and
acted contrary to their oaths of office by assuming the power to
legislate their progressive views on homosexual marriage from the bench.
The personal advocacy for homosexual causes by justices in the majority
has also cast an ethical cloud over this decision. This decision will
lead to frontal assaults, led by the Obama administration, on a right
which actually is in the Constitution, the right to freely exercise
one’s religion. I fear this judicial coup will lead to social unrest,
the jailing of religious leaders, and other outrages against those
Americans who shared the views of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and all of
Western civilization on traditional marriage. This is a terrible,
terrible day for our nation.
God Created Adam and Eve Not Adam and Stave and certainly Not Eve and Sue
Genesis 2:4-3:24 KJV Adam and Eve
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet
sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was
no one to work the ground, 6 but streams[b] came up from the earth and
watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed a
man[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 Now the Lord
God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man
he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the
ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the
middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.
10 A river watering the garden flowed from
Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of
the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah,
where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic
resin[d] and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is
the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.[e] 14 The name of
the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And
the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the man
and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And
the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in
the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals
and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he
would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that
was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds
in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam[f] no suitable
helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep
sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and
then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman
from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the
man.
23 The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. The Fall
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord
God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not
eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the
serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did
say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the
garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will
not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows
that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like
God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit
of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also
desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave
some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of
both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they
sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was
walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord
God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the
man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring[i] and hers; he will crush[j] your head, and you will strike his heel.”
16 To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit
from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
20 Adam[k] named his wife Eve,[l] because she would become the mother of all the living.
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed
them. 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,
knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and
take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the
Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from
which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the
east side[m] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword
flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
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Shock jock Howard Stern is one of the most iconic figures in pop culture. For decades, he's dominated American radio, entertaining us with his raunchy bravado and insightful interviews. Animal rights activist, author, and model Beth Ostrosky Stern is his better half. And although these two are clearly meant to be, particular oddities about their romance have definitely raised more than a few eyebrows over the years. How much do you really know about these lovebirds? We've rounded up some of the stranger facts about the Sterns' marriage.
Howard was previously married for two decades
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The Howard Stern Show host's marriage to his first wife, Alison Berns, lasted 21 years before they called it quits in October 1999. The former couple, who finalized their divorce two years later, share three daughters, Emily, Ashley, and Debra.
"My marriage ending blew my mind," Stern told Rolling Stone in 2011. "I was upset that I failed and let down my family, my kids, my ex-wife. It was all very painful."
"I was totally neurotic and sort of consumed with work. I took work as the most important thing and the only thing," he told the magazine in 2014, explaining that he felt like a "detached robot" before starting therapy. "I knew things weren't right, and I said, 'Gee, where am I going to get some answers?' I had never been a guy to turn to religion but then as my marriage was coming to an end, I needed help to explain it to my children and make sense of it all and communicate with them. Because once you are a divorced guy, being a father is a whole different thing."
Howard and Beth's meet-cute was nearly a disaster
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When Howard and Beth met in 2000, Stern had been separated from his first wife for less than a year. But their real-life meet-cute was almost a total disaster.
As Beth told Andy Cohen on Radio Andy in 2017, she was on a horrible blind date at a friend's dinner party, "And in walks Howard Stern … There was one seat open, and it was right across from me. And he was just in the grumpiest mood. He was starving, so he just puts his head down, he starts eating."
As a joke, the model got up from the table to imitate a woman who had been following Stern around all night, desperately flirting to no avail. "So I walked over to Howard, and I, like, flipped my hair back, and I'm like, 'You've got the most beautiful eyes,' and he looked at me, and he goes, 'I do?' And he looked at me, and he did!" Beth said.
"And that was our moment," she revealed. "He looked at me, he looked through my soul, and I was like…I'm done, and he said that was his moment, too."
The future married pair soon found out they lived half a block away from one another on the Upper West Side in NYC, exchanged phone numbers, and said goodnight—before Howard called Beth at 4 o'clock that morning for an impromptu movie night invite. As Beth said, "We've been together ever since."
Stern's explicit proposal
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It may have been love at first sight for these two, but Howard and Beth didn't become engaged until seven years later. It was a surprising turnaround the King of Media, as he had vowed to never marry again.
But in true Stern fashion, he had no problem sharing all the details of his proposal with his listeners. "Do you want your Valentine's Day gift now?" he recalled asking his future wife, adding that he had told Beth to strip down when the model said she wanted her present, a 5.2 carat diamond ring, early (via MTV News).
"I love you. You're everything to me," he had told her. "This is so gay … I'm asking you to spend the rest of your life with me." The two made love immediately after Beth said, "Yes." According to the bride-to-be, "[I kept my] hand up and was looking at my ring the whole time."
Really sweet? TMI? We'll let you be the judge on this one.
They had a star-studded wedding
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Following a 20-month engagement, the Sterns married on October 3, 2008, in front of 180 guests at the Le Cirque restaurant in New York City.
According to MTV News, their wedding was a massive, star-studded affair. Officiated by Kelly Ripa's husband, Mark Consuelos, the ceremony's other famous attendees included the likes of Joan Rivers, Chevy Chase, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, John Stamos, Barbara Walters, and many more. Guests were entertained by Phoebe Snow, who sang her classic "You Send Me," and Billy Joel, who performed "The Stranger."
"Chevy Chase doing an impromptu [and X-rated] speech was fun," Beth recalled. "Billy Joel serenading us was not planned, and my best friend got up and spoke. Jimmy Kimmel made a surprise speech at the altar as Mark Consuelos was officiating. It was so much fun."
Okay, that sounds amazing.
Things changed when they got hitched
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Unfortunately, it took people a long time to take the Sterns' relationship very seriously. The problem? Howard's short-lived, albeit notorious playboy lifestyle.
"After my divorce, I realized, 'Oh wow, I can go have sex,'" he told Rolling Stone in 2011. "And I was running around, picking up women. Then all of a sudden, it dawned on me that I really didn't need that much sex. I just wanted somebody with me every minute. I was using women as a surrogate mother. When I tapped into that, it suddenly became very childish behavior."
Of course, he'd cleaned up his act by the time he hit it off with Beth shortly after. But no one really believed it would last until they finally tied the knot eight years later.
"Things changed when we got married," Stern continued. "Everyone before was like, 'Oh, are you Howard Stern's blonde bimbo that hangs out with him?' But suddenly, when we were married, it was like, 'Oh, this is Howard's wife.' And that was important to me. Part of the reason I got married was that I wanted Beth to understand how important she is and also how equal I feel she is to me."
Howard is 18 years older than Beth
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Yes, there is a whopping 18-year age difference between this married pair. In 2017, Howard turned 63, while Beth turned 45. But it seems like age is nothing but a number for these two.
"We really do have fun together, day in and day out, and we do well when we are together 24/7," Beth told Hamptons Magazine in 2011. "We appreciate each other, and he really listens to everything I say. I think he is quite a catch—the perfect husband."
"I still get that fuzzy feeling in my stomach every time I see him," she told Us Weekly the following year. "We are just so blissfully happy. I wish this feeling for everyone. He's the most thoughtful person I know."
Howard is a hopeless romantic
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We never would have guessed it from his blunt radio personality, but Stern is nothing but a softie at heart.
"Howard is so romantic. He writes love letters," Beth told Access Hollywood in 2014 (via the Daily Mail). "He tells me every day I'm beautiful," she continued, adding, "He's the best kisser."
The shock jock is also a generous gift-giver, who always goes the extra mile by using his many talents to keep things personal. "He has been doing watercolors and paintings lately, and I just cherish the ones he gives me," Beth told Social Life Magazine in 2015 (via Hello!). "He has painted many roses for me. My walls are covered with Howard originals."
Are you paying attention, fellas? Howard Stern is raising the bar.
Their marriage may have caused serious family drama
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Not unlike her famous dad, Emily Stern, Howard's eldest daughter, isn't afraid to speak her mind. In 2015, she publicly called him out for allegedly changing after her parents' divorce, which she admitted left her with emotional scars.
"I believed that my parents were very much in love," she told the New York Post. "I felt like the divorce came out of nowhere. I thought that sacred bond was so strong. He used to be one way, and then he marries a model." Yikes.
As Emily, then 32, continued, she theorized that her mother returning to work may have broken her parents' marriage. "Maybe he couldn't handle it when she went back to work as a psychoanalyst," she said.
According to Radar Online, the candid interview reportedly caused major family drama among the Sterns. However, the shock jock played it cool in the media, saying he's "very blessed to have such a great relationship" with his children, adding that neither party felt the finished article was "very reflective" of their actual bond.
They keep a strict schedule
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Don't be fooled by Stern's outrageous on-air personality—he isn't one to party hard. In fact, you might be surprised to learn that this couple actually keeps a super strict schedule.
"Everybody thinks, 'Oh you're married to Howard Stern … you must be laughing all the time,'" Beth told Access Hollywood in 2013 (via Digital Spy). "Yes, we are laughing all the time, but our life together, it is not crazy. We go to bed at 8 o'clock at night, even on the weekend, just because that's our schedule. He gets up early for his radio show. We are definitely not wild and crazy."
But the married pair don't only have an early bedtime, they also eat dinner at a cool 4 p.m., as Beth revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2016. To which the comedic host quipped, "You're so set for old age, you're all ready."
Stern didn't know how to do this basic domestic task
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This story is both hilarious and somewhat tragic. In September 2017, Beth had to teach her then-63-year-old husband how to make coffee. Seriously.
The Yoda: The Story of a Cat and his Kittens author took to Instagram to share a screenshot of a humorous text message exchange between the two, in which she guided a perplexed Howard Stern through brewing his own cup of joe. "If you are listening to my husband on @siriusxm (this is the text exchange between us when he didn't know how to make coffee)," she captioned their convo, adding the hashtags, "#smile#heartbreaking."
Howard's personal day controversy
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When fans freaked out over Stern taking his first-ever personal day from his show in May 2017, an abundance of rumors about his notable absence quickly began to swirl. According to Page Six, these ranged from supposed marital issues with Beth to the alleged death of one of his parents. Seriously, things got dark fast.
With her husband temporarily out of commission, Beth attempted to calm his fans' worst fears. "Everything is great. He's coming back on Monday. He had to take a personal day, that's all," she told the New York Post.
"There was a lot of speculation, 'Where was I on Wednesday?'" Stern griped when he made his on-air return (via Us Weekly). "I didn't take a personal day, I took a sick day—and I'm still sick, you can still hear it in my voice."
He continued, "Why was it such a big deal that I took a f***ing day off? I wanted to take off today because my voice is still shot, but I was afraid to. I felt so f***ing guilty. I missed a day of work and all of a sudden it's bigger news than James Comey."
They're both animal rights activists
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The Sterns are longtime animal rights activists who use their public platform to raise awareness and help animals in need. Having worked with the North Shore Animal League America since the mid-2000s, the two have rescued, fostered, and found loving homes for hundreds of cats.
"This is what we do. This is our passion. We've done over 500 fosters in our home," Stern told Us Weekly in 2017. "It's just very fulfilling, it brings you outside of yourself, you're helping an animal and that bond, it sounds cliché but that bond is really fantastic and it makes me feel so good that we can help.
"It helps my relationship," he added. "Beth is so competent and so masterful with the animals coming through our home that it takes my breath away."
They have matching tattoos
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When these animal lovers lost their beloved 10-year-old English bulldog, Bianca, in 2012, they decided to commemorate her memory in a unique way: by getting matching tattoos of her name on their arms.
"She was the light of my life. My husband and I adopted her together, and she became our world," Beth told Us Weekly in 2014. "[The tattoo] is a happy memory."
We're glad to hear this, because the couple took the loss of Bianca, who was featured on the cover of Beth's 2009 book, Oh My Dog, incredibly hard. The author called it "the saddest day of [her] life" on Twitter.
Meanwhile, Howard expressed his grief on his radio show. "I've learned I'm human because I'm so touched by my dog. My dog taught me how to love—love deeper," he told his listeners (via ABC). "Beth and I don't have a child and Bianca is sort of our child. Anybody who knows us as a couple, I mean personally, knows we just dote on Bianca—Bianca's everything. She's our fun. She's our life. I spent the whole day crying."
They're total relationship goals
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This romantic pair may have their share of quirks, but at the end of the day, the Sterns are total #RelationshipGoals. Apart from constantly gushing about and supporting one another, their sweetest, funniest, and most candid moments are the ones that prove these two are simply meant to be.
Some of our faves include the pair's cross-dressing Christmas card, Beth's hilarious reaction to Howard's horrible sketch of her, and Stern cheering on his wife at the finish line of the New York City Marathon.
But the absolute best was when the Yoda Gets a Buddy author revealed why Howard surprisingly dropped out of his America's Got Talent judging gig in 2015. As she told Extra TV, "Howard told me he wanted more free time to be with me."
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The most outrageous celebrity confessions on Howard Stern
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Howard Stern, the undisputed shock jock king, has cemented his place as a radio legend over the course of a long and controversial career that included a 20-year run at WXRK in New York City. Free from the shackles of censors since his move to SiriusXM, his infamous on-air interviews tend to go off the rails at any moment. Stern has perfected the art of making his guests feel relaxed and prompting them to share very personal stories. In fact, Stern's guests often find themselves answering salacious questions that would never fly in most interviews, and some celebrities straight-up volunteer show-stopping information with him that they may regret later.
From Lady Gaga going deep into her drug-addicted past, to Nick Cannon opening the doors of his bedroom with Mariah Carey, and Robert Downey Jr. brutally slamming a reporter who took things too far, here are some of the most outrageous and shocking celebrity confessions uttered on The Howard Stern Show.
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