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Latest Fact-Checks In Marriage

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Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 30, 2015 an interview with Hugh Hewitt:
"Florida has a law like (Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act)."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • March 31, 2015
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 2, 2015 his radio commentary:
"A married couple that" use the same last name "is rarer and rarer in our country."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 13, 2015
Ted Olson
Ted Olson
stated on January 18, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"Supreme Court 15 times over the last 120 years has said marriage is a fundamental right" and never said "it had to be between a man and a woman."
True
By Lauren Carroll • January 18, 2015
Julaine Appling
Julaine Appling
stated on January 6, 2015 a radio interview:
Polls on legalizing same-sex marriage "are not dramatically changing."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • January 16, 2015
Tony Perkins
Tony Perkins
stated on October 12, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday":
"We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 23, 2014 a speech at Catholic University:
"Having an active father makes children 98 percent more likely to graduate from college."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2014
Brad Schimel
Brad Schimel
stated on June 26, 2014 a fund-raising email:
Says attorney general candidate Jon Richards "went so far to say he would only enforce the laws with which he personally agreed."  
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 16, 2014
Ralph Reed
Ralph Reed
stated on April 20, 2014 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"Social science is irrefutable" that children are better off being raised by a mom and a dad.
False
By Julie Kliegman • April 22, 2014
David Boies
David Boies
stated on April 8, 2014 the Civil Rights Summit at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library:
Every one of "more than 30 federal judges who have considered the issue of gay and lesbian rights since last June… ruled that marriage is a constitutional right and you cannot deprive individual citizens of that right based on their sexual orientation."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 16, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 25, 2014 a meme on the Internet:
The percentage of black children born without a father in the home has risen from 7 percent in 1964 to 73 percent today, due to changes from President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 25, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on January 28, 2014 a speech:
"I never gave up custody of my children. I never lost custody of my children."  
Mostly True
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 8, 2014 a speech:
Marriage "decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014
Neera Tanden
Neera Tanden
stated on December 29, 2013 a panel discussion on CNN:
"Forty percent of the country is going to be in states that are tolerant of gay marriage or at least civil unions."
True
By Steve Contorno • January 5, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on December 6, 2013 a segment on his radio show:
"Obamacare is going to increase the divorce rate."
False
By Katie Sanders • December 11, 2013
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on September 4, 2013 a TV ad:
Says Ken Cuccinelli tried to make it more difficult for mothers to obtain divorces.
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • September 26, 2013
Barry Smitherman
Barry Smitherman
stated on August 26, 2013 prepared remarks for speech to Texas Alliance for Life:
According to an article in the Economist magazine, Americans are "guaranteed" to live above the poverty line if they graduate from high school, keep their first job for over a year and get and stay married.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 18, 2013
Don Lemon
Don Lemon
stated on July 27, 2013 a commentary on CNN:
"More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2013
Edward Lindsey
Edward Lindsey
stated on June 26, 2013 a news release:
Bob Barr has changed his position on the Defense of Marriage Act over the years.
True
By Janel Davis • July 3, 2013
Lauren Benedict
Lauren Benedict
stated on June 19, 2013 a Georgia's WIN List press release:
U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey wants public schools to teach women to "stay in their place."
Pants on Fire!
By Janel Davis • June 26, 2013
Mark Herring
Mark Herring
stated on June 15, 2013 a debate:
On gay marriage
Full Flop
By Warren Fiske • June 24, 2013
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