Cabbages and Kings

When I braved the cold weather to cover a story about the Amen Corner in Peavey Park, I expected to find what their press release promised: people registering to vote. Following Google Maps directions, I found myself at the intersection of a highway entrance and a glum-looking parking lot with no prospective voters, and no gathering at all. Now what? I tried, unsuccessfully, to reach my editor, and finally turned my bike back up Franklin toward home, cold and disappointed under a darkening sky. Then I heard it: loud music and a man’s voice chanting “Can I get an Amen” through speakers.

I am writing to discuss the proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot this Tuesday, Nov. 6, asking if we should make only marriages between a man and a woman legal and recognized in Minnesota. Same-sex marriages are already illegal here, but amending our constitution in this way would make it much harder to change that in the future.