Tag Archives: Minnesota

NOM claims to have had “hundreds” of supporters at the picket. How many do YOU see? Scroll over the image for the play button.

Check out this charming Facebook thread from Minnesota For Marriage. (Via – Good As You)

From NOM’s General Mills boycott petition.Suspiciously missing from the list: Fruit Roll-Ups!

Details. (Tipped by JMG reader Ken)

Top of their blog today. Dear Marriage Supporter, Just a few months ago, Starbucks announced that gay marriage was “core” to the beliefs of their company and formally endorsed same-sex marriage in Washington State. NOM responded by organizing a protest of Starbucks—and nearly 45,000 people have now signed the DumpStarbucks petition. Well, the radical left of corporate America is at …

Technically the campaign is from Minnesota For Marriage, but Good As You’s Jeremy Hooper astutely notes that NOM secured the domain name last week.

Minneapolis’ City Pages has published a lengthy look at Archbishop John Neinstedt and the Catholic Church’s local campaign against gay people. An excerpt: The archbishop began his tenure by writing a piece in the Catholic Spirit claiming that those “who actively encourage or promote homosexual acts … formally cooperate in a grave evil, and … are guilty of mortal sin.” …

“General Mills makes billions marketing cereal to parents of young children. It has now effectively declared a war on marriage with its own customers when it tells the country that it is opposed to preserving traditional marriage, which is what the Minnesota Marriage Protection Amendment does. This will go down as one of the dumbest corporate PR stunts of all …

“We do not believe the proposed constitutional amendment is in the best interests of our employees or our state economy. We value diversity. We value inclusion. Obviously, there are strongly held views on both sides. We acknowledge those views, including those on religious grounds. We respect and defend the right of others to disagree. But we truly value diversity and …

Minnesotans United announces! Fortune 500 Company General Mills has just announced that the Golden Valley, MN corporation opposes the constitutional amendment seeking to limit the freedom to marry for committed same-sex couples in Minnesota. Sign our petition today thanking General Mills for supporting all Minnesota families! Suck it, NOM!

NOM has letters to Minnesota’s fifty largest companies demanding that they stay out of the marriage battle. “The corporations all have customers and employees that come down on both sides,” Jonathan Baker of NOM told KARE. “They have customers and employees that want to support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of a man and a woman, and …

A Minnesota judge has ruled that a street preacher may not enter the grounds of Twin Cities Pride to disrupt the event and hand out bibles. On Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis denied Brian Johnson’s request for an injunction that would force the Minneapolis parks board to allow him unrestricted access to festival grounds. Instead, the judge’s ruling …

Help! They’re being oppressed!

Think Progress reports that a court has ruled that the NOM-funded Minnesota Family Council does not have to reveal the names of its donors. From the ruling: Minnesota statutes allow the association to allocate the amount of general treasury money used to promote or defeat a ballot question among donors to the association’s general treasury. The association is required to …

Public Policy Polling reports: Minnesota’s constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage now appears to be in serious danger of failing, a reversal from a PPP poll four months ago when it led for passage by a 48/44 margin. Now only 43% of voters support the proposed amendment, with 49% of voters opposed to it. The shift since then has come …

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