Sally Jo Sorensen

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Two generations in St. Charles and Chatfield support freedom of all Minnesota couples to marry

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

When Tessa Hoffman Schweitzer received a mail piece from Minnesota for Marriage targeting Matt Schmit, her state senator, the divorced mother turned to social media to object to the notion that the freedom to marry would harm children. She urged friends in the district to call Schmit and ask him to vote yes, happy to have Schmit's number readily at hand, courtesy of the anti-freedom group.

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Minnesota for Marriage flies in nice lady from big city to tell rural Minnesotans not to let metro push them around

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Bluestem had some errands to do in Montevideo Saturday and so joined about 75 other people at the Minnesota For Marriage (M4M) road show rally in the parking lot of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

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Kid fears: Minnesota for Marriage sends a mailer to St. Charles and warms up the RV for the weekend road trip

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

A divorced single mother in St. Charles, who supports the freedom to marry, received a mailer yesterday from Minnesota for Marriage that she shared via Facebook.

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Once an ally, University of Minnesota-Morris student now works for her own freedom to marry

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Like many teenage girls, Naomi Wente once wrote out a list of the characteristics she sought in a spouse: intelligence, compassion, political involvement.

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Like water to the river: Western Minnesota couple see the freedom to marry as part of state's ethos

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

After a long day of rehabbing the rural Big Stone County farmhouse they've purchased together, Rebecca Terk and John G. White share stories and gumbo at the kitchen table in Terk's home in Clinton. The couple, who will marry this summer, also share a core belief in the freedom to marry.

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Representative Hansen discusses silica sand mining in Save the Bluffs video update

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

One of the best-known (and liked) lobbyists at the Minnesota State capitol is John Kaul, whose candid photos capture the essence, drama and frequent exhaustion of the legislative process. He's also a pretty decent documentary filmmaker who explored the life of Minnesota's first woman state supreme court justice.

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Unbearable victimhood: MN for Marriage brings back the flaming lavender stormtroopers of love

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

During last fall's debate over the amendment to restrict the freedom to marry, one of the spokesters for Minnesota for Marriage (M4M) compared the tactics of Vote No supporters with Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. M4M quickly repudiated the claim, but has revived the trope in news materials for April 7 church-based organizing.

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DFL budget targets for health and human services could spell disaster for Greater Minnesota

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

We're a bit behind the curve in commenting on this story, but the consequences of budget cuts proposed by DFL leadership in the Minnesota House and Senate don't look good for the poor and vulnerable in rural areas.

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