Updated:: Mar 8, 2018
Original:: Apr 4, 2012

Memos reveal more details about group's strategy to fight gay marriage

The Associated Press last week reported on confidential memos that showed the National Organization for Marriage worked to drive a wedge between blacks and gay marriage advocates to divide the Democratic base. Now MinnPost shares more details from those documents. That includes a plan to recruit children from same-sex families to talk about their unhappiness on video.

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The Associated Press last week reported on confidential memos that showed the National Organization for Marriage worked to drive a wedge between blacks and gay marriage advocates to divide the Democratic base. Now MinnPost shares more details from those documents. That includes a plan to recruit children from same-sex families to talk about their unhappiness on video.

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Gay marriage advocates, fresh from winning a fight over a constitutional amendment that would have banned same-sex unions, is already planning for what they say is the next logical step. State law still does not allow for gay marriage. They aim to change that.

The latest: a national group working to ban gay marriage has asked Minnesota's largest corporations to remain neutral on the issue. Meanwhile, the debate is dividing the state's clergy, and Rep. Keith Ellison makes his prediction on the marriage amendment.

Freedom to Marry, a national group fighting to defeat the ballot measure to define marriage as solely between one man and one woman, will air its first television advertisement in Minnesota on Thursday. MPR reports the 30-second ad will run on television and cable networks in the Twin Cities and Duluth. It features a Duluth couple who have been married for nearly 60 years. Yvonne and Fred Peterson say gay couples should also be allowed to marry.

St. Paul-area Lutherans assembling in Burnsville, and separately, Gov. Mark Dayton and other activists holding "house parties" around the state, demonstrated their opposition to an amendment to the state Constitution that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

A new poll reveals that public opinion has shifted in Minnesota, suggesting that state voters might not support a gay marriage ban. If voters rejected a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, it would be a first in the United States. Can the poll results be real?

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is donating $125,000 to defeat the constitutional gay marriage ban on Minnesota's November ballot, the Associated Press reports. The donation is among the biggest contributions to Minnesotans United for All Families, the group that is leading the fight against the ballot measure.

As the debate over the Minnesota marriage amendment grows louder in the weeks leading up to a vote on the ballot measure, two camps are clearly divided: young and old, the Star Tribune reports.

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