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Open Forum State marriage amendment is hateful
It is wrong for our representative, Mr. Gazelka, the governor and like-minded people to promote an amendment to the State Constitution to deny homosexuals the right to marry (or form a civil union).
That line of thinking is no different than the ban on interracial marriage and other segregationist laws of the pre-civil rights era.
Constitutions are constructed to protect the rights of all people. There is no place for discrimination in any Constitution.
Mr. Gazelka, Tim Pawlenty and all other self-proclaimed Christians have yet to show me ("by their acts you shall know them") that they are truly Christian. This proposed amendment is hateful.
Mike Wheeler
Brainerd
GOP wants a wedge issue
With Roberts and Alito now seated at the "Big Bench," the alliance of self-righteous evangelicals and hypocritical Republicans can focus on the big prize: overturning Roe.
Overturning Roe will not prevent abortions. Affluent Republicans will simply send their preppy daughters, and privileged spouses and partners, to some foreign spa for the procedure. Other women will do what women did pre-Roe: bloody back alley abortions performed by untrained quacks resulting in a staggering death rate.
If these hypocrites get their way, any overturn of Roe had better include an enforceable method of preventing affluent Republican women from receiving foreign abortions. Just for once, I'd like to see these hypocrites suffer the result of their own actions. Just for once, I'd like to see the same rules apply to everyone.
The Republicans control the White House, Congress, Supreme Court and most state legislatures. If these hypocrites want a federal ban on abortion, who's stopping them? The Republicans don't want to overturn Roe; they want this wedge issue.
Paul Bartlett
Eagan
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