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Vikings punter and hero to the LGBT world Chris Kluwe has recorded a hilarious radio spot against Minnesota’s pending constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

We’re going to turn into Holland! Dykes, everywhere!

An amusing email from JMG reader Cindy: Hi, Joe, I had an interesting call at the phone banks last night. I have been volunteering calling voters 3 or 4 nights a week to fight the MN marriage amendment, and last night I was given a list of voters who previously said they’d be voting yes (to limit marriage to one …

David Blankenhorn continues his change of heart. (Via Towleroad)

The Human Rights Campaign on NOM’s bigotry mastermind: Public filings show that he has netted nearly $3 million this year for his work in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Washington State. The profits go to Schubert’s company, Mission Public Affairs.  Schubert collected $958,594 for his anti-equality work in North Carolina earlier this year. In the four marriage ballot states, …

Minnesota’s marriage referendum stands at a dead heat. According to the poll, 47 percent of those surveyed said they favored the amendment and 46 opposed it. The difference is well within the poll’s margin of error, which was 4.3 percent, according to KSTP. Seven percent of those polled said they were undecided. Neither KSTP nor SurveyUSA released the methodology of …

Unemployed sportcaster Damian Goddard was forced to miss Canadian Thanksgiving this week because he had to rush to a NOM convention in Minnesota to warn that same-sex marriage was going to plunge the state into the same “cultural sinkhole” that has destroyed his own homeland.  Tragically, Goddard missed his roasted beaver dinner in vain, because he was turned back by …

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Gay marriage will result in more illegitimate children!

TheFour has launched a moneybomb for marriage equality: It’s 25 days until the election. Give $25 today to support marriage equality in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. It’s #25out25in. This is crunch time for any campaign. Just a few weeks out, and our opponents are giving it everything they’ve got. Their lies are already showing up on television in Washington …

The Human Rights Campaign has committed another $1 million to the marriage equality campaigns in the four contested states. There is no doubt 2012 is the year of marriage and HRC is committed to making marriage equality the law of the land in Maine, Maryland, and Washington state, and to defeating the discriminatory anti-marriage amendment in Minnesota. Today we are …

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The Dear Abby advice column, which is now written by Abby’s daughter Jeanne Phillips, yesterday came out against Minnesota’s pending constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. My mother, Pauline Phillips, the founder of the Dear Abby column, taught me as a young girl that when we are faced with a tough decision that affects another person, it is important to consider …

“Tell me, Archbishop, Pope, what purpose does the Church serve attempting to influence the affairs of a secular state? The federal benefits under law currently denied gay couples certainly fall under the realm of Caesar, don’t they? No one is forcing the Catholic Church to marry gay couples if that is not the Church’s wish. You can keep the sanctity …

Truth Wins Out reports that Minnesota Archbishop John Nienstadt responded to a parishioner’s letter by telling her that she should reject her gay son or she too will go to hell. Think Progress has the letter: I write to inform you that the teaching of the Catholic Church on homosexuality,a s described in paragraphs 2357 and 2358 and 2359 of …

For the first time, the opposition to Minnesota’s pending constitutional ban on same-sex marriage is polling ahead of its supporters. Via Public Policy Polling: PPP’s newest poll on Minnesota’s amendment to ban gay marriage finds it running slightly behind, with 46% of voters planning to support it and 49% opposed. That represents a 4 point shift compared to a month …