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Minnesota newspapers on marriage, voting amendments
David Brauer tallied up where Minnesota media stand on the ballot initiatives. With few exceptions, it’s a resounding ‘No.’
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Have you been following the contretemps involving Chick-fil-A and same-sex marriage? It’s one of those sagas that tickles a newsie’s reportorial fancy, containing more improbable twists than anything one might make up were one in the business of writing, say, sitcoms or old-fashioned farces.
It’s also a cautionary tale for businesses that dabble both in politics and social media, but let’s dispense with the stranger-than-fiction first. Read more…
It’s going to take a lot more than a doctrinal admonition from the Vatican to silence Sister Brigid McDonald.
Sister Brigid McDonald calls Vatican’s reprimand of U.S. nuns group a ‘misuse of power’
Checking out yes/no ads before N.C. marriage-amendment vote
With voters headed to the polls May 8 to decide whether to amend North Carolina’s constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage, Minnesota groups working for and against a marriage ban here are getting a sneak peek at each other’s likely tactics.
![A series of explosive documents recently unsealed as part of a federal lawsuit in Maine shed light on a Minnesota controversy involving the organizations campaigning to put a ban on same-sex marriages into the Minnesota Constitution.
The documents, exhibits in a lawsuit filed by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), outline a broad political strategy to “drive a wedge between gays and blacks,” “expose [Barack] Obama as a social radical” and even to ensure that the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo stays open.
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A series of explosive documents recently unsealed as part of a federal lawsuit in Maine shed light on a Minnesota controversy involving the organizations campaigning to put a ban on same-sex marriages into the Minnesota Constitution.
The documents, exhibits in a lawsuit filed by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), outline a broad political strategy to “drive a wedge between gays and blacks,” “expose [Barack] Obama as a social radical” and even to ensure that the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo stays open.
Read more: Memos in NOM suit reveal anti-gay-marriage strategies
Maybe I was naïve, but I was under the impression that around gay and lesbian issues, we were slowly but surely — I know sometimes too slowly — but slowly but surely moving actually in the right direction; the direction of more inclusion, the direction of more equity, the direction of more safety. I thought that was the trend.
The Rev. Grant Stevensen, new director of Minnesotans United for All Families’ faith department.
Read Beth Hawkins’ Q&A with Rev. Stevensen: Engaging congregations: A Q&A with Minnesotans United’s Grant Stevensen
Minnesota’s marriage amendment battle: Power of ‘messaging’ may be the key
Beth Hawkins takes a comprehensive look at the messaging strategies for both sides of the marriage amendment. Fascinating read.
Who is funding Minnesota's gay marriage ban amendment?
We’ve created two interactive tables: one of donations from marriage ban opponents, one of the supporter donations.
You’ll see a huge discrepancy in the financial disclosure from the supporters of the ban. Read more about it here.
Appeals court sends lawsuit on Minnesota's gay marriage ban back for more arguments
A lawsuit over Minnesota’s ban on same-sex marriage should not have been thrown out by a judge, the state Court of Appeals has ruled. The court sent the case back to the district court for further analysis of the constitutional issues.
