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As promised by the Minnesota Family Council and other fundamentalist religious leaders, a constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of same-sex relationships was offered on Wednesday by a bipartisan slate of legislators. In fact, three identical bills were offered. Radio Free Nation’s Marty Owings captured video of the press conference that raised a few eyebrows yesterday when leaders said saving marriage would save the world.
The three bills and their sponsors?
HF1824 is sponsored by Dan Severson, R-Park Rapids; Mary Ellen Otremba, DFL-Park Rapids; Lyle Koenen, DFL-Clara City; Dave Olin, Thief River Falls; Mary Kiffmeyer, R-Big Lake; Rob Eastlund, R-Isanti.
HF1870 is sponsored by Bob Dettmer, R-Forest Lake; Tony Cornish, R-Good Thunder; Bud Nornes, R-Fergus Falls; Steve Drazkowski, R-Wabasha; Mark Murdock, R-Otter Tail; Tim Kelly, R-Red Wing; Ron Shimanski, R-Sliver Lake.
1871 is carried by Drazkowski with Shimanski, Kiffmeyer and Dettmer again, and adding Steve Gottwalt, R-St. Cloud.
In 2007, a similar slate of legislators offered five identical bills.
Radio Free Nation’s Marty Owings captured the faith leaders’ press conference where they said that an amendment must pass or the world will be in peril.
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Comment posted March 19, 2009 @ 5:05 pm
These “religious leaders” would do well to re-read Jesus’ condemnation of the purity codes in his confrontation with the Pharisees in Mark 7.
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Comment posted March 20, 2009 @ 2:33 pm
What a joke.
IF they were serious about this legislation, why didn’t this get introduced on January 22 when the session started ? Why wait virtually two months … and now that the session is embroiled in spending issues.
Does this have a chance of getting serious committee review ?
This accomplishes the purpose of confirming to your donors that you support this issue, and proves that they know it is going no where.
Here’s my question, will this get a hearing faster than Cornish’s HF 0800 (Castle Doctrine) which he waited virtually a month after the session started to introduce it and still has not had a committee hearing ?
Comment posted March 23, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
Gay marriage is a threat to traditional marriage. Christian marriage has long been held as the glue which holds family and communities together. Children need to be raised in a family with a mother and a father of good Christian values. Thus, I believe, that there should be a constitutional amendment that states, “Marriage is defined as the union of one white Christian man to one white Christian woman”. Further, since the other threats to marriage are divorce and death, both should also be outlawed. We need to put the “lock” in wedlock. You married each other and that is forever. Next, since children need both a mother and father, all children born outside of wedlock or those who have just one parent (for whatever reason) should be taken from their single parent and given to a good Christian family. I am sure, as a Christian, that this is covered in the Bible somewhere. Probably next to the quote about killing a son who disobeys their father…..
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