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catherineldfIt's been one helluva weekend and I don't mean that in a good way. Not for me personally. Other than an all-out assault on our relationship by Minnesota Republicans, we're fine. Not so much for our neighbors on the Northside. The Minneapolis Foundation is one of the organizations raising funds to help the many folks who lost their homes, vehicles and jobs to the storm this weekend.
As for Saturday's other event, well, the fun starts now. We get to take sides. We get to hear that LGBTQ people are pedophiles and practice bestiality. We get to hear fuckheads like Bradlee Dean get a forum to "preach" that queers should be jailed and preferably killed. The state's not going to look the same if this passes and I'm not looking forward to that. Bear in my mind that our friends in Wisconsin have one of these amendments and now their wonderful governor, after all out attacks on working people, is trying to roll back all domestic partner health benefits and deny LGBTQ Wisconsinites the right to decide who can visit them in the hospital. I assume rolling back any form of descrimination protection is next. So where does that leave us on this side of the river? Fighting back, I hope. Minnesotans United for All Families kicked off this weekend. It'll be the main local organization fighting the amendment push, as I understand it. Outfront MN is another organization that's organizing as is Project 515. Donate if you can, volunteer, talk to people, demonstrate, sign the Facebook pledge, contact your reps, write letters to your newspapers, blog and vote. If we don't get the jump on this thing early, Minnesota will be the 32nd state to pass one of these amendments. Let's make it the first one to fail instead.
As for Saturday's other event, well, the fun starts now. We get to take sides. We get to hear that LGBTQ people are pedophiles and practice bestiality. We get to hear fuckheads like Bradlee Dean get a forum to "preach" that queers should be jailed and preferably killed. The state's not going to look the same if this passes and I'm not looking forward to that. Bear in my mind that our friends in Wisconsin have one of these amendments and now their wonderful governor, after all out attacks on working people, is trying to roll back all domestic partner health benefits and deny LGBTQ Wisconsinites the right to decide who can visit them in the hospital. I assume rolling back any form of descrimination protection is next. So where does that leave us on this side of the river? Fighting back, I hope. Minnesotans United for All Families kicked off this weekend. It'll be the main local organization fighting the amendment push, as I understand it. Outfront MN is another organization that's organizing as is Project 515. Donate if you can, volunteer, talk to people, demonstrate, sign the Facebook pledge, contact your reps, write letters to your newspapers, blog and vote. If we don't get the jump on this thing early, Minnesota will be the 32nd state to pass one of these amendments. Let's make it the first one to fail instead.
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Date: 2011-05-24 02:27 am (UTC)Clearly this campaign was brought to us by the Ministry of Truth.