Tag: Marriage Amendment
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It’s Time To Start Legalizing Gay Marriage!
Yesterday, I noticed that even some of the brighter leftybloggers are figuring out – or drifting in that direction – that the DFL majority in the Legislature isn’t going to knock itself out to legalize gay marriage. But there’s another angle to this. The DFL (or, more accurately, the various non-profits that control the DFL’s…
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Chanting Points Memo: “Minnesota Poll” Orders Material For A Narrative-Building Spree
If you take the history of the Minnesota Poll as any indication, yesterday’s numbers on the Marriage Amendment might be encouraging for amendment supporters: The increasingly costly and bitter fight over a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage is a statistical dead heat, according to a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll. Six weeks before Election…
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Chanting Points Memo: Nothing Here But Us Extremists
I was out of town last week during Governor Dayton’s frankly weird performance, referring to supporters of the “Right To Work” amendment as “Extreme”. More on that – it ties in closely with my piece on the DFL’s new PR effort to flood the state with unsupportable memes on wedge issues designed to fool the…