The Bemidji Pioneer reminds their readers that supporters of marriage come from all backgrounds. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse would say we are the real rainbow coalition!Conventional political wisdom is that a gay-marriage prohibition on the Nov. 6 ballot would pit Democratic-Farmer-Laborites against Republicans.
“It is not that cut and dried,” Chuck Darrell said.
Darrell, Minnesota for Marriage spokesman, said Democrats are needed to pass a constitutional amendment to define marriage as being between a man and a woman.
On Nov. 6, Minnesota voters will decide whether to insert the marriage definition into the state Constitution.
Darrell, whose group is pushing the amendment, said exit polls during a similar California vote showed 36 percent of Democrats favored the constitutional amendment, as did 56 percent of union households.
“We are counting on 40 percent of the DFL vote here in Minnesota to vote for the marriage amendment, and similar numbers within the minority communities,” Darrell said, adding that Ethiopian communities are examples of traditional Democrats backing the amendment.
Darrell said DFL efforts to drive up turnout for the President Barack Obama also could help produce pro-amendment voters.
“Support for the marriage amendment crosses every kind of boundary you can imagine,” Darrell said.
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Just hope that these DJL members realize that if they really support marriage and the amendment, then do not vote for Obama.
He will stack the Supreme Court with two more marriage corrupters and marriage haters who will try and impose marriage corrumption on all fifty states through judicial activism and render our votes meaningless.
Remember the other side knows it cannot win fair and sqaure through a vote of we the people. Therefore they need to lie and cheat by trying to get the courts to impose what they cannot win fairly at the ballot box.
Marriage is a very effective issue by which to separate traditional Democratic constituencies from the remnants of their illusions.