Shoreview Council member Ben Withhart, who supported the registry, said a failure to pass it would have sent the message to gay couples that they weren’t welcome in Shoreview.
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.
The state organization said the Republican victory in New York shows that politicians who vote for same-sex marriage will be held accountable by voters.
OutFront Minnesota responded that “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are not broken” or in need of repair.
Bachmann was the target of a flash mob and of pointed questions on her opposition to gay marriage by Tonight Show host Jay Leno.
Seventy-four members of Congress signed on to the letter, which seeks to address inconsistencies between state and federal law’s treatment of LGBT couples.
Investigations of the bullying of LGBT kids is the biggest growth area in the Department of Justice’s civil rights division.
On Tuesday, the New York Times featured a front page article about the Anoka-Hennepin School District and its two-year long struggle to defend policies that limit discussion of LGBT issues in district schools. It’s an issue the Minnesota Independent has covered from the beginning.The following is a full account of the dispute.
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.”
Darrell has said that anti-bullying legislation is a “trap designed to indoctrinate school children to accept same-sex marriage.”
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