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As expected, the Minnesota House Civil Law Committee advanced marriage equality legislation tonight with a vote of 10-7, reflecting today’s similar vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill now advances to the full House, but as in the Senate, its potential for passage there is not yet known

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Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe has been a very vocal advocate for marriage equality, helping fundraise to defeat his state’s marriage inequality amendment and just defending the gay community in general. For this, he has been bombarded with anti-gay hate mail, including one particular individual who photoshopped his name into a cartoon describing him as worse than a pedophile

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Chuck Darrell campaigning with the National Organization for Marriage. In a stunning attempt to co-opt not only Christianity, but all of organized religion, the spokesperson for Minnesota for Marriage has claimed that all religious people support the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

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Two new polls show that the referendum on Minnesota’s marriage inequality amendment will be very close this November. According to Public Policy Polling , the amendment has 48 percent support and 47 percent opposition, the tightest result PPP has shown. SurveyUSA shows that 50 percent favor the amendment while 43 percent oppose it, a tightening of the polling since July’s 52-37 results .

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Archbishop John Nienstedt Minnesota Archbishop John Nienstedt has penned a verbose letter calling on Catholics to support the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, which many priests read to their parishes last week. Nienstedt claims that he opposes discrimination against “brothers and sisters living with same-sex attraction,” yet admits that the entire reason to support the amendment is to keep gays and lesbians from marrying: First, some ask, “Why is a constitutional amendment necessary?” Well, the fact of the matter is that politicians and activists are working right now in Minnesota to redefine the institution of marriage from one that bonds a man and a woman to any children born from their sexual union into another that licenses the romantic preferences of same-sex adults . We know that some who are seeking to redefine marriage experience same-sex attractions

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The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled today that Secretary of State Mark Ritchie “exceeded his authority” when he provided different language for the marriage inequality amendment than what was passed by the legislature. As a result, the amendment’s original language will appear on the ballot, characterizing the constitutional  ban on same-sex marriage as “Recognition of Marriage Solely Between One Man and One Woman,” instead of “Limiting the Status of Marriage to Opposite Sex Couples.”

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Someone left a gruesome message outside a polling place one day before Minnesota’s primary election. Yesterday, a Minneapolis park employee found a dead cat that had been burned and staked to a tree stump with an American flag with an Obama/Biden 2012 lawn sign planted next to it.

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Minnesota Court Says State Defense of Marriage Act Law Doesn’t Block Inheritance of Assets Minnesota’s Defense of Marriage Act does not deny the right of same-sex partners to inherit each other’s assets, according to a …

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The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board released a report last Friday that found that during the gubernatorial election in 2010, the Republican Party of Minnesota (RPM) intentionally circumvented campaign finance laws. The Board fined the Minnesota Republican Party nearly $30,000, and the former party chair Tony Sutton $3,000, for illegally accepting campaign contributions. Mike Dean, a member of Common Cause Minnesota, the organization that filed the complaint to the Board, told the Star Tribune that the Republican Party “attempted to use a shell corporation to hide over a half million dollars in debt from the public.” The Board agreed with Dean, finding that the RPM had been illegally funneling contributions through the for-profit corporation Count Them All Properly, with the intention of avoiding campaign finance laws.

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On Monday, Minnesota announced it has signed a $41 million contract to implement the state health exchange required by the Affordable Care Act, joining at least 15 other states that are also moving forward to enact the ACA’s provisions.

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