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Minnesota- to Bigotry And Beyond!

05/06/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire

In an effort at avoid dealing with the state’s $5 billion deficit, the Minnesota GOP is offering up a diversion and  has pushed through a bill that proposes a constitutional  ban on same-sex marriage on the 2012 ballot passed the Senate Rules Committee on Friday morning and is now headed to the full Senate for a vote.

If the GOP-controlled Minnesota House and Senate approve identical language, voters would decide in 2012 whether to amend the state constitution to define marriage solely as union of one man and one woman. Minnesota governors don’t have a say in determining questions on the statewide ballot.

Supporters hope to put the measure on next year’s ballot, and because it’s a constitutional amendment, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton doesn’t have veto power should the proposal pass the Legislature.

It does not matter that it is based upon false information. It does not matter that it is based upon outright fraud over at the National Organization for Marriage.

It certainly does not matter that the last honest poll of Minnesotans saw support for the ban at a third, the Minnesota Senate is primed to vote on a ballot measure aimed for 2012 to enshrine marriage bigotry into the Minnesota Constitution.

The move will not only bar lesbians and gays from the civil right of marriage, but it will cost the state a ton of money, and could force businesses to consider moving to other states because of the problem they will have bringing in qualified young workers. Still, the GOP has to secure their campaign bribes- er contributions from NOM don’t they?

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