Human Rights Campaign forms PAC to fight anti-gay marriage amendment
Wednesday, August 03, 2011 at 8:30 am
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The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group, registered a political action committee (PAC) with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board on Monday with the purpose of defeating a ballot measure that would place a ban on same-sex marriage in the Minnesota Constitution. The PAC joins three others working to defeat the amendment. Currently, only one ballot campaign is working to pass the amendment.
HRC’s campaign, the Minnesota Family Freedom PAC, is the first national group to take an interest in defeating the amendment in Minnesota. Active on the opposite side is Minnesota for Marriage, a campaign comprised of the Minnesota Family Council and the Minnesota Catholic Conference, as well as the National Organization for Marriage. NOM has been active in the state since 2010 when it ran ads in support of Republicans.
NOM ran the ads in concert with the Minnesota Family Council as opposed to the Minnesota for Marriage ballot campaign, a move that sparked a campaign finance complaint earlier this year. That complaint is still pending.
Three other groups working to defeat the amendment registered after the Minnesota Legislature passed the amendment onto the ballot. Minnesotans United for All Families is being coordinated by OutFront Minnesota and Project 515, two groups that support relationship rights for LGBT families.
In addition, a group of Republicans have registered Republicans Against the Minnesota Marriage Amendment.
And another group has registered the It’s Personal to Me Campaign, which aims to put a personal face on the marriage equality battle.
On its website, the group explains its motivation:
In November 2012, Minnesotan’s will be asked whether to ban same-sex marriage by defining marriage between one man and one woman. When asked about this issue Minnesota Family Council President Tom Prichard said: “[O]ur goal is to not make it personal.” It’s Personal to Me, challenges this idea by putting a face on the people who will be affected by this harmful ballot measure that is anti-family and anti-marriage and will sew anger and division across the state.
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Comment posted August 4, 2011 @ 8:49 am
Minnesota Family Council President Tom Prichard said: “[O]ur goal is to not make it personal.” Oh, really? Messing with the lives of thousands and relationships of lgbt people and denying them equal rights as citizens isn’t personal? Prichard, you conniving, lowlife bottomfeeder, stop lying through your teeth. It’s personal, all right, and if there’s any justice this evil ballot measure will be soundly defeated by intelligent, compassionate, equality-loving voters across the state. Crawl back under your rock, Prichard–your fearmongering, bigotry and oppression don’t belong here.
Comment posted August 4, 2011 @ 9:23 am
Ron… agreed.
Also, you have to understand people like Prichard and the Christian Fundamentalists use fear based tactics on their followers who are delusional. In a sense, you are dealing with people who are not living in reality… it’s a form of insanity that these people are indoctrinated into believing at a very young age with rituals and repetition over the years to brainwash them. The stories of the bible are so outlandish and sensationalized with no basis of solid evidence or fact, and to some religious leaders, it’s very frightening that so many people are finally waking up to this realization of true reality and dropping the outdated faith system used to control and suppress people… but cleverly disguised as righteousness. It’s sick… it’s insane and Atheists are helping people wake up more and more to REALITY.
So my suggesting is to help the masses wake up from all the lies they’ve been scammed to believe, then simply show them that peaceful people, yes, even gay, as tax payers, deserve the basic right to a civil union… there is nothing to fear.
BIG BUSINESS religion is going to eventually wash away. It’s already happening, more and more.
Religions rely on human SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF and have lots of convenient “MIRACLE CLAUSES” to help support the ridiculous stories. It’s fairytales. It’s a lot of Pathological LIES.
Andy Thomson has a FANTASIC breakdown as to why humans are so attracted to religion and worship. It gets into some history and deep psychology but clearly explains why people fall for illusions and made up imagination-based stories.
Andy Thomson … Why We Believe In Gods….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9eMrg
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