Inver Grove Heights rejects domestic partner registry, council member calls gays ‘weird little group’

Wow – Dennis Madden, tell us what you really think? He seems so vehemently against homosexuals that makes me think he’s hiding something about himself. Passing this ordinance was a no-brainer…it could only help residents of that city.

Hopefully the council members who voted against it are replaced with those who have less bigoted views against the LGBT community.

Scratch a homophobe, find a closet case. It happens every time. Wait and see.

Mr Madden sounds like he’s LONG OVER-DUE for his Eternal DIRT NAP

“And what’s with all these floor-escent lights?” he added. “In MY day, we lit our city council meetings using whale oil lamps!”

The hate is heard loud and clear of differing opinions. I only wish our own City Council had been more deliberative about this decision, instead of just going along with the recommendation of our Human Rights Advisory Commission, comprised almost entirely of gays and lesbians.

@Disgusted American Even bigots ought not be wished dead. Wish him enlightened, wish him out of public office, but don’t wish him dead.

Our city has passed a domestic partnership registration ordinance. I only wish this was available when I was single and living with my male roommate 15 years ago. We co-habitated and were dependent on one another financially (for rent and utilities that is). We could have saved ourselves healthclub membership fees, park passes and free hot chocolate at the skating rink. Domestic partnership bliss.

Madden is quite the bigot but most likely it is because he fights with his own attraction to men. Anyone with this much hatred does not belong in any office since he is incapable of reasonable decisions. Time to dump this guy no matter what you feel about partnerships. I can bet he disparages all races and religions that are not his own.

I may be part of a “weird little group” but I pay the same taxes as you do, sir, and I deserve at least a semblance of the same rights.

Inver Grove Heights is backward, backward, backward.

How can the commissioner say ““What are you doing getting involved in a moral issue? … This issue has nothing to do with the growth of Inver Grove Heights, its fiscal base, the safety of the community for its citizens, the improvement of the roads or water system and how about keeping taxes down?”

It has plenty to do w the fiscal base and the improvement of the local economy. GLBT people are already income -earners. Why would a city NOT want to attract professionals? Why would a city want to put up roadblocks for the stability of the families that live there?

And the commissioner IS getting involved in a moral issue. His stance says that it’s ok for a state to sanction discrimination. He’s saying that it’s ok for a state to deny death and medical benefits, civil rights and responsibilities to a minority population in his district, simply because they make him uncomfortable, to him they are “weird.”

I hope the “weird little group” already residing in Inver Grove Heights votes en masse to let this commissioner know just what they think of his public sentiments.

HEre’s one of MANY MANY MANY articles detailing the economic benefit of a community when there is diversity and equality. The quality of life for the entire community goes up.

http://articles.philly.com/2011-07-03/news/29733279_1_couples-wedding-spending-marriages

Frankly, the registries make me nervous. I worry they are more a tool of discrimination than equal rights. They seem like a perfect way to get people to self identify so that they can be more accurately targeted later. If an organization wants to recognize equal rights and offer a discount to all families, they can do that by simply accepting without bias what people answer to “who is in your family?”. This doesn’t require that first people need to be on a list downtown.

I am a tax-paying citizen. I happily pay taxes and other work-related deductions so that the married couples can have special marriage benefits–tax benefits, medical insurance benefits, etc. I only ask the same for me and my partner.

We are not a weird little group. Sadly, I’m very boring. I work hard, pay my bills and I contribute to the economy in so many ways. I should also add that my partner and I have a much more “normal” marriage than the majority of other straight couples out there. We plan on staying together for the rest of our lives, unlike the 50% of straight couples.

I’m confused. what’s up with “less government”. Isn’t this more government telling me what I can and can’t do?

Unfortunatly many from this man’s generation have fixed and unflexible thinking, the sooner this generation dies off the better off the country will be.

“Madden said the country should return to the values on which he said it was founded.”

Values like the one which only allowed white male property owners to vote?

Right, Mike. Well said. Or maybe values like the part of the Constitution that said Blacks were three-fifths of a person? Those are the “values” to which we should return??? That’s a conservative mindset for you: they’re always building that bridge to the 12th century. Long ago I came to the conclusion that conservatism is a mental disorder. Anyone who would purposely repress growth, enlightenment, and progress for the human race is sick and needs treatment. Get out of the way, conservatives–the train to the future is coming through. If you don’t get on board (or at least move off the track), you’ll be run over and left behind.

The question is, does the city process marriage paperwork? Does the city give out marriage licenses? Seems to me that this is a county responsibility. When I got my marriage license, I went to the county courthouse, not city hall.

Regardless of your personal viewpoint on this issue, it is not a function of city government. The debate over this issue should be before the county board.

I am intentionally not expressing my personal opinion on this issue because I would like to get feedback from others on the factual points I raised.

I’ve never heard of county domestic partner registery, John. Are there such things? Does a County even have the ability to create such a registry, which would affect its cities?

I fully applaud Dennis Madden and the Inver Grove Heights city council for this vote. I have had it with the militant GLBTers trying to force their agenda into every aspect of our lives. Be who you are privately, and quit trying to force me to accommodate you through the force of law. I never knew much about Mr. Madden before, but you can be assured that I will be contributing to his next campaign. Ms. Pekarski-Krech has obviously been there too long already. Time for her to move on!

Tests have shown if you put Dennis Madden in a room with the Inver Grove Heights city council and have them watch porn…they will enjoy it.

Participants consisted of a group of homophobic men (n = 35) and a group of nonhomophobic men (n = 29); they were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia (W. W. Hudson & W. A. Ricketts, 1980). The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored. They also completed an Aggression Questionnaire (A. H. Buss & M. Perry, 1992). Both groups exhibited increases in penile circumference to the heterosexual and female homosexual videos. Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in aggression. Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.

..and Im sure Ken H. would fit into that study group of Homophobes…aka secret closet cases……hey Kenny, maybe when you heteros STOP shoving YOUR LIFESTYLE down our throats..then you can say something, til then STFU……yep its men humping women 24/7, 365 days a yr in real life, on TV in Magazines billboards…….all the while TAKING YOUR RIGHTS for GRANTED! ..while trying to deny equal rights to others……and KEN H. GFY…deep and hard

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So sad to hear he died of a heart attack tomorrow.

I would like to add, in reference to his “getting tired of all the political correctness” – ahem….”Go phuck yourself you tired old viagra taking saggy buttocked sexually conflicted biatch!!” :end scene:

IF I was gay, I would remember the holocaust, and the fact that all of the religions and 90% of the people are against homosexualism. I sure wouldn;t want my name on ANY list, that would make it too easy to round up those who are different. I don’t trust my government…..do you?