Lynx star Augustus using national platform to fight marriage amendment

WNBA star Seimone Augustus has added her voice to those opposed to a Minnesota ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriage, and she's becoming a more vocal high-profile supporter of equal rights for gays and lesbians, the Associated Press reports. The Lynx guard is currently playing in the WNBA finals and planning a wedding of her own to long-time partner LaTaya Varner.

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BMTN Staff
Updated:
Mar 8, 2018
Original:
Oct 16, 2012

With Seimone Augustus' adopted home state of Minnesota considering a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage, the WNBA star is now becoming a more vocal supporter of equal rights for gays and lesbians, the Associated Press reports. The high-profile Lynx guard, an Olympic gold medalist and WNBA champion, is currently playing in another WNBA finals and planning a wedding of her own to long-time partner LaTaya Varner.

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Minnesota Lynx star and U.S. Olympian Seimone Augustus says she is looking forward to marrying longtime partner LaTaya Varner in an interview with ESPN that aired Wednesday. Augustus, who revealed she was gay earlier this year, discussed her wedding plans and her sexuality on ESPN's "Outside the Lines" program.

Minnesota Lynx player Seimone Augustus says she had a "great conversation" with Roseville Police Chief Rick Mathwig after she was pulled over Monday for having an air freshener dangling from her rear-view mirror. Augustus thought it amounted to racial profiling, which Roseville police deny. In any event, the star guard is moving on with her life, she says. The Lynx will begin play in the WNBA finals on Sunday.

Opponents of Minnesota's marriage amendment plan to bring in volunteers from other states to campaign against the measure. Three national gay rights groups are coordinating a recruiting effort to get volunteers to spend a week in any of four states that are voting on marriage. Minnesota's amendment would have the Constitution define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

A Michigan philanthropist has donated $325,000 to a group opposing a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage in Minnesota, the Star Tribune reports. Jon Stryker of Kalamazoo, Mich., gave the money to Freedom to Marry Minnesota's political action committee on Tuesday, according to state campaign finance records. The donation comes a day after the Human Rights Campaign announced it would spent $250,000 in Minnesota to fight the amendment.

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With a healthy lead in the polls, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is spending some of her political capital in the divisive fight over the marriage amendment. In a new email to potential donors, Klobuchar says she has pledged to help raise $10,000 for the fight against the controversial state ballot measure that would define marriage as between a man and woman.

Minnesota for Marriage, the lead group advocating the marriage amendment has released a new television ad that warns that gay relationships could be taught in school if marriage is ultimately redefined.

The Star Tribune reports the majority of Lutheran representatives attending an annual assembly of the Minneapolis Area Synod of the ELCA voted against the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. This is the first major Lutheran body to go on the record against the amendment. The St. Paul Area Synod will hold its annual assembly in May.

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