The Minnesota Catholic Conference has joined arms with Minnesota for Marriage, which supports a constitutional same-sex marriage ban.
Eastman warned at impeachment hearings in Colorado in 2004 that there’s a movement afoot in Canada to “define reading of the Bible as a hate crime because it is anti-homosexual.”
The Faith and Freedom coalition is the brainchild of former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed—the group has a Minnesota arm.
In other states that have faced an anti-gay marriage ballot, people of faith have been sidelined. In Minnesota, they’ve been involved from the beginning.
OutFront Minnesota responded that “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are not broken” or in need of repair.
Christian and “pro-life” groups throughout the state have protested the Calif. since the state Legislature passed it, calling it “anti-parent.”
Ellison responded that efforts to ban Sharia aren’t based in reality—there are no Sharia-run communities in the United States—but are a “thin-disguised effort at religious persecution.”
Dean said Obama’s “grave decisions dishonor everything our forefathers gave us when they laid down their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.”
The campaign team chosen by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann reflect her religious faith and far-right political positions, but may turn off moderate and mainstream voters.
Today’s battle over how to address LGBT issues in Minnesota’s largest school district is nothing new. For the past 20 years, conservative Christian parents in the Anoka-Hennepin School District have been working to make their beliefs — from creationism to the negative effects of R-rated movies and the “Goosebumps” books on children — have impact in district schools. Their tactics have included the banning of books and films, changes to school curriculum and the forced resignation of an LGBT teacher.
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