Michele Bachmann To Support Minnesota Ban On Gay Marriage
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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is back to focusing on some local political issues after she dropped out of the 2012 Republican Presidential primary. She is supporting an attempt to ban gay marriage in Minnesota. From the Christian Post:
Michele Bachmann spoke to members of Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition in Minnesota recently and pledged support for a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between one man and one woman.
The group met to discuss ways to approve a marriage amendment that will appear on November’s ballot. The measure is to ensure that neither courts nor future legislatures can legalize gay marriage.
Bachmann proposed tying the measure to the issue of right to vote. “I think if you want to talk to people who are not interested in talking about the morality you can also come at it as ‘should people be allowed to vote,’” she said. Her statement prompted a minister in the back of the room to promptly pray for her.
When another minister from Minneapolis asked her how he could address the issue with parishioners who are parents of gay children, Bachmann said she wasn’t an expert. People should get to decide the laws they live under, she emphasized.
Teresa Collette, a law professor from University of St. Thomas who supports traditional marriage, suggested another way to frame the issue. “If you believe that marriage is a pre-political institution, an institution that existed before the state of Minnesota was a twinkle in some explorer’s eye… then, you’re going to believe that marriage has an intrinsic nature,” she said. “And that nature is a permanent sexual union between a man and a woman for purposes of creating the next generation and raising them to responsible adulthood. And so it’s not a fight over who gets to get married, it’s just you don’t fit the category.”
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Here's a quote directly from the article and I've said this before at least twice on this blog:
"Jordan Sekulow, chief counsel of the D.C.-based American Center for Law and Justice, cautioned ministers against violating their tax-exempt status."
That's it. Keep up the gay bashing and it will back fire and turn into people losing their churches all together. I'm going to end up being right about this one.
I'm Minnesotan and I would be surprised if her comments made any difference what-so-ever. The Twin Cities is actually one of the LGBTQ friendliest cities in the country and Duluth (where I live) was the first city in the state to oppose the gay marriage ban. I highly doubt this bill will pass here. Which it shouldn't.
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