Tag Archives: Minnesota

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has published a strongly-worded editorial denouncing the campaign to place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage to a public vote. Opponents of marriage equity say a constitutional amendment is a necessary backstop that would prevent the courts from overturning existing law. In reality, enshrining this form of bigotry in the state’s premier governing document would be a …

JMG reader Brian tips us to the below clip of yesterday’s Minnesota hearing on the proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, where state Rep. Steve Simon (D) asked: “How many gay people must God create before we accept that he wants them around?” The bill advanced anyway along party lines. Watch Simon’s commentary below.

Minnesota’s Catholic bishops have issued a joint statement in support of the pending constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, which may go on the ballot this November. An excerpt: “Our own State’s constant recognition of marriage is based on the evident fact that only the sexual union of a man and a woman has the natural capability to bring forth new …

The Minnesota Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced a bill to place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on the November ballot. But not before Democrat Barb Goodwin (left) tried a slick move to sink the bill. Goodwin suggested tweaking the text of the proposed amendment so the Minnesota Constitution would not only limit marriage to couplings of one man and …

Two 14 year-old middle school girls in Minnesota have hung themselves in a suicide pact brought on by bullying. The sexual orientation of the pair is unknown. Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz were found Saturday in the small town of Lynd. The two 14-year-olds hanged themselves and left notes in an apparent suicide pact. “I think they’ve had this for …

“In 5,000 years of recorded human history… neither in the east or in the west… has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That’s an astounding fact and it isn’t until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time …

After suffering through a long year of negative press and calls for boycotts over their sizable donation to an anti-gay group, Target has published new guidelines to corporate giving. The new policies appear to install tighter executive review of proposed donations. The Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson reports: Jessica Carlson, spokesperson for Target, said the change was enacted within the last …

Their case was won late last month and I covered it here, but the girls are just now telling their story to the networks.

How much do some CPAC attendees want Pawlenty to be the next president? So much so that they’ll launch into chants of “USA! USA!” after the most tepid of statements.

“The Family Leader and other organizations have taken a position in favor of traditional marriage. I don’t distance myself from that position — I embrace it. I support the notion that we, as a society, should continue to elevate traditional marriage, that it should remain as between a man and a woman, and that all other domestic relationships are not …

American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer appeared on the Minnesota radio show of Holocaust revisionist Bradlee Dean to announce to that Hitler was a gay prostitute who surrounded himself with “vicious homosexuals” when he formed the Nazi Party. Fischer, of course, is quoting Scott Lively’s book, The Pink Swastika. Bradlee Dean, who also heads a Christian heavy metal band, …

A lesbian couple who successfully fought to attend their Minnesota high school’s Snow Days party as members of the royalty court were greeted with cheers from their classmates as they entered the room last night. Sarah Lindstrom and Desiree Shelton wore matching black suits with pink ties and held hands as they entered the Snow Days Pep Fest at Champlin …

Openly gay Minnesota high school student Lance Lundsten, 18, committed suicide this weekend. Friends are blaming bullying. Around 10 p.m. Saturday the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded to an emergency call at the Lundsten’s residence in Miltona. When officers arrived, they discovered 18-year-old Lance Lundsten needing emergency medical care. Lundsten was transported to the Douglas County Hospital where he later …

Via AdRants: “For Caribou Coffee, Colle+McVoy created transit shelters in Minneapolis that look like ovens, complete with real heaters, to highlight the “Hot ‘n Wholesome” goodness of Caribou Coffee’s new menu items.”

“That is one of the tactics that they are using now, to say that by not legitimizing and normalizing homosexuality, we are creating an atmosphere in the schools that is hostile to quote-end-quote gay kids. What they are doing is just the opposite themselves. They are creating an environment where these children that are sexually confused suddenly become affirmed as …

Tonight’s Vikings-Giants game will not take place.

So much for the huge donation Target made to the campaign of anti-gay bigot Tom Emmer. Via Washington Post: Republican Tom Emmer has conceded the Minnesota governor’s race to former Sen. Mark Dayton (D), bringing a close to the last undecided governor’s race of 2010 and finalizing the playing field for the 2011 nationwide redistricting. “Minnesotans have made their choice, …

Via a press release from Marry Me Minnesota, we learn of a positive development that took place last week. On November 24th, Minnesota Fourth District Court Judge Mary S. DuFrense denied a motion by the Minnesota Family Council to intervene as defendants against a lawsuit brought by three same same-sex couples and one minor child to strike down Minnesota laws …