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If a poll at the Minnesota State Fair is a preview of things to come, then the National Organization for Marriage has a lot of work to do in its effort to completely ban marriage equality in the state.
Even after a controversy which saw the NOM backed group, Minnesotans for Marriage (as long as it excludes THE GAYS) get a booth in the fair while the organization fighting NOM’s effort not able to retain a booth, NOM received some interestingly bad news.
According to the Minnesota Independent:
The Minnesota House of Representatives conducted its annual poll of legislative issues at the Minnesota State Fair this year, and among the questions was how fair-goers would vote on an amendment to the state constitution limiting marriage to one man and one woman and barring same-sex marriage for future generations. Poll respondents rejected the amendment with 29.8 percent voting “yes” and 66.5 percent voting “no.”
According to the House, the poll “is an informal, unscientific survey of issues discussed in prior legislative sessions.”
Both sides of the debate over the amendment rallied their troops to the fair to vote in the poll. Minnesota for Marriage, which supports a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, and Minnesotans United for All Families, which opposes the amendment, sent email alerts to activists during the fair urging them to take the poll.
The poll had by far the highest turnout ever: 12,549 people took the poll compared to 9,926 last year.
Of course NOM hasn’t said a word about this on its blog. If the organization ever gets around to addressing this slap in its face, expect to hear platitudes about how “30 states voted to oppose gay marriage,” or how “the only vote that really matters is at the ballot box.”
But don’t be fooled. No doubt the folks at Minnesotans for Marriage (as long it excludes The GAYS) will be plotting their next move in response to this poll.
According to NOM Exposed, they have already call in the churches. How long will it be before they start pulling the “if gays get married, children will have to learn about homosexual relationships (i.e. gay sex)” card, even though this claim has been continuously proven to be a lie.
Make no mistake about it. For the folks in Minnesota, this is going to be a long year.
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The Catholic Bishops have been wroking on the campaign supporting the amendment for ages….I believe about two years ago they printed off of of the misinformation and mythology that they could muster and unleashed it upon the laity.
I believe the NOM wins with this rhetoric because we do not take those words back and up the ante.
When faced with anti-(same-sex)-marriage initiatives like Prop 8, talking points and ad buys should be focused on the exact same things NOM says: a “yes” vote will harm children, harm families, harm marriage, will force more children into single parent homes, and force your children to be indoctrinated to others’ religious beliefs in the public classroom …
Once we say all that, we need to add to facts such: states which Protect Marriage and Families (by allowing same-sex marriage) have the lowest rate of divorce, etc. etc. etc.
We may want to focus on the “same-sex” aspect of these initiatives, but voters have proven time and again that they will buy into NOM-esque lies and mis-direction.
Most importantly, if “Gay, Inc” started focusing on protecting children, families, and the institution of marriage, they would not only be stealing NOM’s and its allies’ thunder, then the focus would indeed be on the truth.
And cynically and politically speaking, and given our record of loss after loss at the polling station, isn’t it time to try a new strategy which shifts the focus from the gay community to protecting gay families, which in the end, is still our primary goal?
NOM knows that people are getting sick of their lies..
What shocks me is that they are not yet in NC, putting their weight behind these amendments, but then again they could be waiting to see if they pass, when they do, they will be here in NC for a Yes on campaign, why the lgbt community starts the no on campaign..
Maggie and Brian has made the group a laughing stock in many circles..
Brilliant! I totally agree. We lose because we try to play nice; we try to appeal to logic and fairness and goodness. We can go on all day about how NOM and all the other groups that have formed to push these amendments lie and slander and break election rules, but the fact is that they do this because there is no penalty and it works. I’m not saying we should lie, but I agree with Mike that we should get aggressive and take the offensive on these talking points.