I’m very glad that two pro-life, pro-marriage governors have been elected. Here’s where Governor-Elects Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie stand on the issues:

Virginia Governor’s Election Results » Republican Bob McDonnell wins with 59%
> In victory speech, says “I thank God for His grace and His divine providence in my life.”
> Consistently pro-life on abortion, has championed man-woman marriage

New Jersey Governor’s Election Results » Republican Chris Christie wins with 49%
> Against same-sex “marriages,” supports existing pseudo-marriage “civil unions” law
> Favors the right to life for unborn babies

The two pro-family losses for Congress were the special elections in California and New York State where David Harmer and Doug Hoffman fell short.

In California’s low turnout special congressional election, the Republican Party should have poured in some big money (it has a lot) to elect Harmer instead of allowing the very liberal Democrat, John Garamendi, to capture the seat.

But the RNC didn’t have vision, so they didn’t put in much money. Still, pro-life, pro-marriage Harmer  persevered commendably and came within 10 points of Garamendi in the 10th district, where Democrat voter registration is 18 points higher than Republicans.  What is Garamendi’s anti-family agenda that you can expect  him to implement? Read it for yourself.

In upstate New York, the Obama-Pelosi Democrat machine played much harder to elect Democrat Bill Owens to Congress ahead of pro-family conservative Doug Hoffman. You saw the split between conservative and liberal Republicans and the RNC, instead of being conservative and supporting Hoffman, got involved too little too late. Hoffman has issued an “I’ll be back” statement. I bet he could win if he runs again.

As for the marriage license battle in Maine and the marriage-rights shoot-out in Washington State, it’s a great victory to pass Question 1 to “veto” the homosexual-marriage scheme of Main’s Governor and Legislature.

That said, at what cost did the Maine victory come? The “Yes” side actually ran ads promoting homosexual relationships, which principled pro-family leaders Matt Barber and Pete LaBarbera are exposing and decrying.

A marriage battle pro-family citizens didn’t hear much about was R-71 in Washington State. After the Democrat governor and the Democrat-controlled legislature passed a bill awarding all the rights of marriage to homosexual couples, principled pro-family leaders gathered enough signatures to force it to a vote of the people.

Yet national groups contributed too little too late to the Washington state campaign to protect man-woman marriage rights, which is trailing after being outspent four to one.

 An important lesson to learn from the Maine and Washington State contests is that moral values will only win when “might” (our part) is attached to “right” (God’s part). Another important lesson is, when you write marriage amendments, you’ve got to protect marriage rights as well as marriage licenses, because you can’t go back and “fix this” after marriage has been counterfeited.

Read the SaveAmerica.com news release: “Lessons conservatives must learn from marriage battles in Maine and Washington State.”

Keep track of the ongoing vote-by-mail counting in Washington State. The pro-family position is “No on R-71,” and the counting is not done yet finished in this close vote.