From the strib:
AN AGENDA FOR BACHMANN
Get to work, lawmakers
I, like Doug Grow, am perplexed by Sen. Michele Bachmann's statement that a constitutional ban on gay marriage "is the No. 1 issue in the state" (column, March 28). As a voter in Bachmann's district I have a few items that I wish she would put ahead of her personal beliefs:
- Property taxes going through the roof.
- Minnesota being the largest importer of electricity in the United States.
- Over 46 million Americans without health insurance.
- The jobs being created in our country pay less than the jobs that are disappearing.
- National debt and trade deficit are at all-time highs.
- Our government is outsourcing our national security.
- Corporate America is outsourcing our jobs and national defense.
- Our borders are unguarded.
- The Iraq war.
To me gay marriage is a wedge issue that politicians put out there to distract the American public from their own ineptitude to solve problems that impact our state and country.
MICHAEL LA FAVE, FOREST LAKE
The point is this amendment is morally wrong - because it is morally wrong to attempt to marginalize an unpopular minority for political gain. That's exactly what the push for this amendment is doing. |
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