Children at a very young age, as early as kindergarten, will be taught in school that marriage is between any two adults, no matter what they have been taught at home, in church or in their ethnic traditions. Under that kind of law, those who believe otherwise will be treated as racists and bigots.
Kalley Yanta, Minnesota Marriage Minute anchor
Source: MinnPost
Earlier today I shared that I’m concerned we’re not taking a more preemptive approach in addressing the types of scare tactics amendment supporters will use to get voters on their side. The above is a perfect example of how the other side is already using these tactics. While the reach of Minnesota for Marriage YouTube videos is somewhat limited, they set the strategic tone the campaign will take this fall in their commercials and get-out-the-vote efforts.
While I think the Grandparents ad we’ve run is great, I worry that it only speaks to our base supporters. It doesn’t address a single concern that Frank Schubert and his team are bound to address. Instead, it follows a similar approach that other states have used – and we know how all of those turned out.
dave meeks
/ October 18, 2012When are you republicans going stop spreading your hatred for anybody not like you??? There is no such thing as a compassionate conservative. It’s an oximoron. Anyone who does not think, act, believe, or even look like you is substandard according to you and your actions. And, of course, you are sitting in church on Sundays. What one person basis their life on another person laughs at. We are all different but equal. Kalley Yanta–I pity you and anyone like you when you face God.
Minnesota for Equality
/ October 20, 2012Dave,
Thanks for visiting the site. It is disturbing when _anyone_ spreads the message, “You should not be treated as an equal because you are different than me.” This mentality certainly isn’t limited to Republicans. In fact, I know many of them who will be voting NO in just over two weeks! Thankfully, the vote NO side has built a strong coalition of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, businesses, religious groups, non-profit organizations… the list goes on!
We can defeat this thing, but we must double our efforts in these final two weeks before the campaign. Thank you for standing on the right side of history and voting NO this NOvember!
Nancy Nelson
/ October 21, 2012Kalley Yanta,
On a spiritual level, your appalling lack of compassion and tolerance is making God weep. A reporter once asked Mother Teresa what is was like, working with the poorest of the poor, and the sickest of the sick and she replied, “Every day, I see the face of Jesus Christ in his most distressing disguises.” Have you forgotten that we all are a part of God, and He is a part of all of us?
Do you think that God made a mistake by making people who are not perfect, not smart, not healthy, or not whole? God has placed the less perfect souls among us all, perhaps as a challenge to be loving, accepting, tolerant and compassionate. How do you rate yourself on those challenges?
On a civic level, how can you attempt to use our freedoms to restrict the freedoms of others? Maybe it is because you have never had to live with being less than perfect. So, someone like you thinks maybe you’ve got it all and that is just how it was meant to me. In your arrogance, you cannot even see that you are missing the most important part. Intelligence does not trump common sense and common decency. God is unconditional love. I think that he expects the same from all of us, and I think he expects the same of you.
You had a chance to use your access to the public in a positive way. I understand that fact checkers state that your most recent ad is false. I think that your little spots just might backfire as they reveal a woman who might be perfect on the outside, but not on the inside.