Log Cabin Republicans of Minnesota

This is your chance to thank Reps. Kriesel, Kelly, Murray and Smith for their couragous vote against putting a constitutional amendment on the ballot which will divide Minnesotans and distract from the important issues Republicans were elected to address. Let them know you appreciate their vote, and that because they stood by us, we’ll stand by them. Representative Kriesel was right – Minnesota has their backs!

On May 21, 2011, four Republican leaders took a stand for freedom and fairness by voting against putting the marriage amendment on the ballot. Join Log Cabin Republicans in thanking our champions today! Representatives John Kriesel, Tim Kelly, Rich Murray and Steve Smith represent a stronger, more inclusive GOP that we can all be proud of.

Click here to go to our action center to send a thank you note  Representatives Kriesel, Kelly, Murray and Smith.

In a follow up to our last post, we offer another salute to Representative Tim Kelly, a GOP Representative who also voted against the Marriage Amendment. Below is his rousing and passionate speech against discrimination and for equality.

While Minnestoa Log Cabin Republicans are very dissapointed with the Minnesota GOP for support the amendment to ban same-sex marriage, we are thankful for the “Fantastic Four,” the four Republican members of the Minnesota GOP House Caucus who voted against the amendment. Below is a speech given by one of those Four, John Kriesel urging the body to vote against the amendment. It is a moving speech and it gives us hope. Thank you, Rep. Kriesel.

On the floor of the state senate last week, the sponsor of an amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman was asked by a colleague how the amendment would protect her marriage:

For the full context of the exchange between the senators, see here.  The state senate then voted to pass the amendment, 38–27.

URGENT REQUEST – Please follow the link to e-mail the MN House GOP caucus. It’s imperative that they hear from Republicans opposed to the marriage amendment. Share the link with your friends. It only takes a couple minutes. Do it tonight!

Minnesota Action Center-Log Cabin Republicans

Dale Carpenter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and a longtime Log Cabin Republican ally, was interviewed yesterday after the passage of the so-called Marriage Amendment. 

University of Minnesota law professor Dale Carpenter was inside the Capitol when the Senate gave the green light to the amendment, which he says proposes that “only a union of one man and woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Minnesota.”

Carpenter, who specializes in sexual orientation law, says that not only is this proposed vote unprecedented in Minnesota history, it will undoubtedly receive national attention.

“For better or worse, we will now be known as the state in November 2012, that is going to be voting on this issue,” said Carpenter.

Carpenter says Minnesota is one of the last states to address gay marriage, and he believes private funds from Minnesota and outside the state will be funneled into a massive media campaign.

You can read the rest of the article or see the television interview by going to the WCCO website.