Minnesota Senate Passes Gay Marriage...

Now, I Wonder: could it be that as Minnesota goes, so goes Mississippi?--ABratt

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/minnesota-senate-gay-marriage_n_3266722.html

“When you start talking about race and the Republican Party, Republicans tend to say the following things. First, they tell you that most Republicans are not bigots (true) and that Democrats can be bigots, too (also true). Then you’re reminded that during the decades when southern segregationists made their home in the Democratic Party, Republicans were instrumental in founding the NAACP, in 1909; a Republican chief justice (Earl Warren) presided over Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954; a Republican president (Eisenhower) called in troops to desegregate Little Rock’s schools, in 1957; and another Republican president (Nixon) created the first federal affirmative-action program with teeth. (All true.)” –Frank Rich

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http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/republicans-civil-rights-2013-5/

http://albratt.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/frank-rich-on-race-and-the-republicans-new-york-magazine/

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http://albratt.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/disney-worlds-gay-days-protested-by-one-million-moms/

“Today we have the opportunity to give a part of our population, fellow brothers and sisters of God, the same rights."--Minnesota Rep. Tim Faust. 

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/10/tim-faust-minnesota-gay-marriage_n_3253049.html

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http://albratt.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/karl-rove-linked-american-crossroads-attacks-hillary-clinton-over-benghazi/

"Dr. Ogletree drafted a section of the Book of Discipline that explains how Scripture must be understood through tradition, reason and experience."[Ogletree said] “That’s why I feel I have an advantage, because I haveread the Scriptures so carefully,” he said. “Context matters.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/nyregion/caught-in-methodisms-split-over-same-sex-marriage.html?pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

"The American Family Association [joined in and] called the incident an example of the military’s 'hostility towards faith and religious freedom' and its spokesman Bryan Fischer claimed it was part of an Islamist-secularist conspiracy...."

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Obama to a Planned Parenthood Meeting:

"In North Dakota, they passed a law that outlaws your right to choose starting as early as six weeks, even if a woman is raped. A woman may not even know she's pregnant at six weeks," he said. "In Mississippi, a ballot initiative was put forward that would not only outlaw your right to choose, but could have had all sorts of other far-reaching consequences, like cutting off your access to fertility treatments and making certain forms of contraception a crime. That’s absurd, and it's wrong."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/26/obama-planned-parenthood-_n_3163522.html

Bobby Jindal Approval Rating Poll Shows Popularity Slump

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http://albratt.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/bobby-jindal-approval-rating-poll-shows-popularity-slump/

"Anyone with any sense knows that GWB is responsible for the worst economic disaster this country has seen in 80 years.." -- ABratt's favorite reader comment from this article

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