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The mood at the Minnesota State Capitol today was one of pure joy when the House of Representatives passed the marriage equality bill 75-59 on Thursday. The bill will now go to the DFL controlled Senate for a vote on Monday. Should it pass the Senate it will go to Governor Mark Dayton (DFL), who has said he will sign the bill should it reach his desk. Continue Reading
EDITOR’S NOTE: Legislation that will allow same-sex marriage in the state of Minnesota passed the Minnesota House on May 9, by a vote of 75-59.The Senate is expected to vote on the legislation on Monday, and Governor Mark Dayton has said he will sign it. x x x x x xThe UpTake is covering today’s historic vote on same-sex marriage. Photos and videos will be posted here as the day progresses.HOME-SCHOOLED KIDS FROM WAVERLY, MINN., BROUGHT SIGNS OPPOSING THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL. THE KIDS’ NAMES, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: JOE, PAUL, AMY, REID, BENJAMIN, GABRIEL AND WADE IV. ONE OF THEIR MOMS, JULIE HALVORSON, SAID THE KIDS WERE ON A FIELD TRIP AND WERE NOT BOTHERED BY THE NOISE IN THE CAPITOL, OR BY THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE SAME-SEX LAW WILL BE APPROVED. “YOU ALWAYS STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT,” SHE SAID. Continue Reading
Nearly 40 years ago, two men, one a University of Minnesota law student, became the first to petition the U.S. Supreme Court that they had a constitutional right to marry.
Anne Morse and Jon Nicholson of Dakota, Winona County, Minnesota, who have been married since Trix was a pup, saw their own son marry last year. They can’t entertain denying the happiness that they and their child have found in marriage to any other committed couple. Continue Reading
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. Continue Reading
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. Continue Reading
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. Continue Reading
Nearly a thousand Minnesotans cheered in the frigid hail and snow Thursday, urging state legislators to repeal the state’s law banning same-sex marriages.
Four-year-old twins Emmet and Gabriel are pretty typical kids.
Like many teenage girls, Naomi Wente once wrote out a list of the characteristics she sought in a spouse: intelligence, compassion, political involvement. Continue Reading