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When the amendments for voter restriction and marriage restriction went on the 2012 ballot in Minnesota, it was widely assumed that both would win, and likely by big margins. Yet both went down in defeat last November, marking the first time that either type of state constitutional amendment had lost at the polls.
Now, for Minnesotans favoring marriage equality, comes the next step: Repealing the anti-equality laws currently on the state books, the ones the proposed ballot amendment had sought to embed into the state’s constitution.
Minnesotans United for All Families, the leaders in the fight to stop the Marriage Restriction Amendment and keep bigotry from being enshrined in the Minnesota constitution, are now leading the fight to remove bigotry from Minnesota statutes with a new petition. It’s not been out very long from what I gather, yet it’s already got over 10,000 signatures as of this writing.
You know what to do, Minnesota firepups.
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Hello, everyone!
Hi PW.
I’m sitting here singing an old Monkee’s song in my head.
Another Phoenix Woman Sunday.
Here in Fire Dog Lake Land….
I don’t know why, but I’m weird tonight.
Thanks for the post. I say Fuck Bigotry.
That’s when democracy goes too far, when a majority tells a minority how to live. It results in bigotry toward bigots. All those tens of thousands of troops in that little country on the other side of the world fighting to preserve our freedoms? Come on home. We need you here, not there.
Correction — it’s got 10,000 sigs, but since it’s been out for only three days and with minimal fanfare up to now, that’s pretty darned good.
“That’s when democracy goes too far, when a majority tells a minority how to live.”
Like, your kids get schooled what we say, when we say, where we say?
Sorry: totally OT
Thank you for this news that the victory in Minnesota against the constitutional amendment is being carried further to make marriage equality not only a still-open possibility but a reality!