Posted on 07/12/2012 4:40:41 AM PDT by scottjewell
The southwest Minneapolis suburbs of Minnetonka and Eden Prairie bring to mind Garrison Keillor's tales from Lake Wobegon: They're lined with well-maintained homes and tree-lined roundabouts, and home to residents of largely German and Scandinavian ancestry. But the ladies of these towns have quietly begun a revolt -- one fought with rainbow flags and a Minnesota nice attitude.
The women, mostly in their 40s and 50s, come from different political parties, religious views, and backgrounds, but they've united to fight what many of them call an embarrassment to Minnesota: a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage that will appear on the ballot this November. Minnesota is the 31st state to include such a measure on a ballot, despite a strong LGBT community in Minneapolis, which was named the "gayest city in America" by Advocate Magazine in January 2011.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Yes, and therein lies the hope: That silent forces are at work countering this celebrated advocacy , and that there will be a big, fat surprise in November.
Yes, it is all media spin and let’s hope that it will be countered bu a wave of opposition at the polls.
Since the courts in Massachusetts ruled homosexual "marriage" to be legal the pervert lobby has waged a continuous (and successful) campaign to keep the issue off the ballot (we have "initiative petition" here).That's because poll after poll here shows that pervert marriage would lose if placed on the ballot.It can't win in California...it wouldn't win in Massachusetts...and yet,somehow,it's so wildly popular from coast to coast and border to border.Something doesn't compute here!!
I find their self-identification as "Christians" to be laughable. I realize some passages in the Bible are read a bit murky, but the references to homosexuality are quite clear:
Genesis 2:24(ESV)
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Matthew 19:4-6 ESV
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Leviticus 18:22 ESV
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Romans 1:26-28 ESV
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
So... take your chances, ladies... but know what you're mocking.
“Launch” and “Crusade”?.....what a filthy little warmonger she is. Probably wears GI Joe jammies.
“It is just stunning to me that the gay agenda was able to fly the banner of “civil rights” and “equality” - something which they themselves do not believe, but the idiots at whom they throw their propaganda do believe - and so many have swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.”
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It could be called,
The Invasion of the Heterosexual Snatchers
I have good, longtime straight friends, moderates and Republican leaning, who are totally enamored by the gay agenda. I cannot say ONE bad thing about homosexuality, without hearing it from these people.
A few years back, a close woman friend of mine called me a HOMOPHOBE, simply because I told her when I was in a subway car and saw a same sex couple making out, I moved to a different car.
Friends, heterosexuals, that is, who agree with me on many, many issues, think the gay movement is good, and there is something wrong with me for my ‘reactionary’ views.
I am white, but have dated a few black women. I have one lady friend, who would feel more comfortable if I was gay and had a boyfriend, than to know I dated a black woman.
How did this happen? How did this happen?
My militant lesbian cousin lives in Minnesota.
Her latest outage is that the bank doesn’t recognize her “marriage” and won’t give them a loan. The bank even told them to go ahead and get the legal civil partnership and they will give them the loan.
Instead they’ve chosen to go without the house and throw the tantrum as usual.
The author 'forgot' to mention that all other states have passed this ban (albeit the self-appointed gods in black robes, or legislatures, have often squelched the will of the people), including California (twice) which, face it, really has the gayest city in the universe...
Oh, please. What nonsense. Of course, it’s The Atlantic.
Where are the stories about church ladies standing up and defending traditional marriage? Hmmm? Could it be Satan is behind The Atlantic?
But that is by design. WASPs have been told for the last half a century that they are insipid, colorless bourgeois drones unworthy of respect or emulation because they’re not occupied with challenging social norms and pushing back cultural boundaries.
Why can’t they just buy the house as tenants in common, or in a joint tenancy? Oh, wait! That doesn’t suit their gay agenda.
So WASPs that’s the (derogatory) term for uptight-rich white liberals? (even Republicans) who don’t like Conservative Christians??
I live in one such neighborhood, can’t stand most.
Thank you all for so many astute comments. Yes, it is indeed The Atlantic: The agenda is the force which drives them. So there is the usual spin there: But there are facts and numbers there as well.
As the comments show, there has been a palpable change in the social gestalt surrounding same sex marriage, which was strategically engineered for just such a shift. Without using the term liberally, one can say there has been a victory of sorts: Not total, but formidable.
But social conservatism ain’t finished yet:
We will see what the November election brings: I am hoping a quiet but formidable push back. Then this piece will be proven to be empty fireworks, briefly entertaining and then diminishing into nothing....
The Minneapolis suburbs of Minnetonka and Eden Prairie are hardly representative of small towns in what is referred to as “outstate” Minnesota, which includes everything outside the Minneapolis /St. Paul metro area. Minnetonka especially is an enclave of Birkenstock wearing, Volvo driving liberals that has very little in common with true small communities like Sleepy Eye, Pipestone, Backous, Ely or even more blue collar suburbs of the metro area. My bet is the vote to ban gay marriage will pass with large support from voters in outstate Minnesota.
I wish. Martin Luther may not have been perfect. Some say he intensely disliked Jews. Others that he ripped the book of James from his Bible.
But nobody can deny that he was giant in contributions to Christian thought and theology. The ELCA seriously damages the brand.
Here’s hoping you are right. Then such church ladies will see where it all got them. Nothing like a good dose of reality to sober them up.
“How did this happen? How did this happen?”
Have been wondering that myself. Then I began to muse on just how enormous the egos of Baby Boomers are. This standing up for “marriage equality” makes them feel important and like they are reliving the MLK civil rights era. It is all about their egos and their wanting to feel special and “right”. They do not bother to examine the facts, or what effects this sea change will have on children and the social fabric. But then, weren’t most of them always that way? Same old story.
But they all have the same supercilious attitude.
When you're driving down the highway, and in front of you is a car plastered with Obama, "gay" rights, and other "liberal" bumper stickers, it takes no psychic powers to predict the type of driver behind the wheel. Generally, it's someone in the aforementioned demographic with a smug, obnoxious expression on her face.
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