Tag Archives: Minnesota

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NOM has hired notorious Tea Party attorney Cleta Mitchell in their battle to evade Minnesota’s campaign finance disclosure laws. Mitchell registered as a lobbyist with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board last Wednesday, according to board records. She’s the only lobbyist that NOM has currently registered in Minnesota, although NOM President Brian Brown was registered for a month …

Good As You asks: “Is this even legal?”

Whackjob Minnesota radio host and anti-gay preacher Bradlee Dean has turned on his longtime hero, Michele Bachmann. Because she won’t answer direct questions. I was listening to a radio show, and she was asked a question and she would not answer the question. And it’s like you are such a great, upstanding, upright, citizen that you cannot answer the question …

Minnesota’s Catholic bishops say they are ready to lead the statewide effort to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. And they’ve already begun their push by asking priests to form local anti-gay committees in each of their parishes. “It is imperative that we marshal our resources to educate the faithful about the church’s teachings on these matters, and to …

From the clip description: At the Minnesota Faith and Freedom Coalition strategy session about the upcoming ballot measure seeking to re-write the state constitution to ban marriages for same-sex couples, Republican Party hit-man Karl Rove, and congressman Erik Paulsen were showered with glitter by a group of equality advocates who call themselves “The Glitterati.” The event was set to award …

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Clip description: St. Paul, MN — Glitter rained down from the heavens in a “Minnesota Miracle” on the anti-marriage equality booth at the Minnesota state fair. LGBT equality activists showered the booth from a ski-lift shouting: “Where’s our booth?” and “Equality for all!” in reference to the strange appearance of the anti-gay booth despite the exclusion of a pro-equality booth …

About a hundred gay barbarians performed a flash mob dance today outside of Ladybird Bachmann’s “pray away the gay” clinic.

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This clip is long. Watch it anyway.

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Exodus International will hold its 2012 annual “ex-gay” convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Did the Bachmanns have something to do with that? Amid news that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Christian counseling clinic performs therapy aimed at “curing” gays and lesbians of homosexuality, the nation’s largest “ex-gay” organization, Exodus International, announced it will hold its annual conference, “Exodus Freedom,” in St. Paul …

Lots of folks are digging into “Dr.” Marcus Bachmann’s professional credentials. A tiny excerpt: On his website Dr. Bachmann states he’s had 23 years experience. Simple math brings us to the year 1988. If Dr. Bachmann’s Ph.D. was completed prior to this date, he might have graduated from The Union Graduate School which offered ONLY a Ph.D. in Arts and …

Minnesota has rejected NOM’s bid to keep its donors secret. (Not that it matters as NOM has refused to comply with similar rulings in other states.) The Minnesota Family Council opposes the decision, of course. Tom Prichard, president of the Minnesota Family Council, argued that if donors are disclosed it “would have a significant chilling effect on free speech. Even …