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When the Minnesota state legislature voted to place the marriage amendment on this fall’s ballot, “something clicked,” Twin Cities wedding photographer Pat Connolly said a couple weeks ago.
The 3:00 am vote last May took place on the same day Connolly was shooting his first same-sex wedding and felt more than a little ironic.
I’m pretty sure I was the only nut-job who fled Phoenix, Arizona, to Duluth, Minnesota, back in 1980. It was 115 degrees above the June day a guy at UMD name Jim Reinardy called to tell me I’d been awarded an assistantship to attend grad school.
My close personal friend Amber C. Continue Reading
In the old Jewish joke, two guys are standing in the firing line, awaiting their fate.
“You have any last words?” the tsar’s soldier sneers.
“Death to the tsar!” one guy yells back. “May you all go to hell!”
“Sha!” says the other guy. “Don’t make trouble.”
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An anonymous guest post in opposition to the Minnesota Marriage Amendment from a reader at wantmarriageequality@gmail.com:
Conservatives, take note: As University of Chicago economics professor Richard Thaler Continue Reading
Outfront Minnesota is pushing neither a political party nor a candidate going into Tuesday night’s caucuses. They are asking that Minnesotans take a stand against the Minnesota Marriage amendment during the caucuses–that’s Republican and Democratic caucuses.
About 60 voters and I attended a forum on the Minnesota Marriage Amendment yesterday afternoon at Beth Shalom synagogue in Minnetonka. I’ve been up to my eyeballs in this stuff for almost three months, but once again, I came away with several more reasons to oppose the amendment.
Edina, MN, resident Dan Nye posed six questions about the Minnesota Marriage Amendment in Saturday’s Star Tribune and asked for reasonable, “civil responses without name-calling.” Conversations with open-minded people like Mr. Nye are just what we’re all hoping for.
Opponents of the Minnesota Marriage Amendment should check out the new Marriage Minute Video Series. It’s slick, and, unless you’re paying attention, you might miss the message.