Andy Birkey

Five DFL senators offered a bill on Thursday that would prohibit discrimination against LGBT people in jury service. The bill would add “sexual orientation” and “marital status” to current prohibitions against discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex, national origin, economic status or a physical or sensory disability.”

A golf ball with a homophobic word and image smashed through the window of a vehicle parked outside a church where a lesbian pastor was being named by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Campaign finance reports for the groups supporting and opposing the anti-gay marriage amendment are out and the differences could not be more striking.

St. Louis Park joined Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth on Monday when the city council voted in favor of a resolution against the anti-gay marriage amendment slated for the 2012 ballot.