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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMN GOP introduces bill to allow discrimination against same-sex couples
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/mn-gop-introduces-bill-to-allow-discrimination-against-same-sex-couples/
By Andy Birkey | May 8, 2015
At a press conference on Thursday morning, Sen. Paul Gazelka, a Republican from Nisswa, unveiled a Freedom of Conscience bill aimed at allowing businesses and individuals to discriminate against same-sex couples.
According to the Pioneer Press, Gazelka is promoting the bill, in part, because a business in his district was fined after it refused service to a same-sex couple.
I was one of the legislators who opposed gay marriage but even then I said that gays and lesbians should be able to live as they choose, Gazelka said. Im simply asking that Christians and people of faith be allowed to live as they choose without threat of punishment.
The bill has not yet been introduced in the Minnesota Legislature but is expected to drop in the next few days. It likely wont receive any action with only days left in the legislative session, but because it was introduced in the first year of the biennium, it will be in play in 2016. According to Star Tribune reporter Abby Simons, Republican Senators Michelle Benson of Ham Lake, Warren Limmer of Maple Grove, Mary Kiffmeyer of Big Lake, and Dan Hall of Burnsville are co-authors.
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MN GOP introduces bill to allow discrimination against same-sex couples (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
May 2015
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chillfactor
(7,580 posts)1. Although I retired to New Mexico...
I am a Minnesota native...it makes me sick at heart that asshats like these were ever elected to office...
Omaha Steve
(99,686 posts)2. The best D Marta & I ever knew was on radio in Deluth
Jim Wishner. Ever here him on the news?
He died of cancer a few years back.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)3. How do these people keep getting elected?
Seems bigotry is still alive and well!
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)4. It will come to nothing.
It's a publicity stunt.
bluegopher
(87 posts)5. They haven't heard of Mike Pence yet.