--- Patrick Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Goody! Does Gloria plan to explain why Pawlenty was > one of the leaders on fight against providing same-sex benefits to state employees? > Or, perhaps she'll use her time to explain why > Pawlenty openly repudiated his 1993 vote to give GLBT people equal protection under the state's human rights amendment at the GOP state convention. AND > > On that note, I'd love to welcome everybody to the > Stonewall DFL booth this weekend. Not only will we > have > Paul Wellstone and Roger Moe in attendance (sunday > afternoon),
Well, Patrick's questions for Pawlenty are on point, imo, I think it will only be fair to ask Roger Moe about his vote forcing judges to give automatic preference to presumably heterosexual married couples in child custody/adoption cases. Gee, wouldn't be great for glbt people to have a gubernatorial candidate who respects the rights and integrity of glbt families? The Green Party is proud to offer just such a candidate. Ken Pentel. Ken will be in the parade and at the Green Party booth in Loring Park Sunday afternoon as well. He fully embraces the Greens numerous platform planks on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and intersexed issues. Since Ventura has decided not to run, Pentel has become the only candidate advocating equal access for same sex couples to the the civil marriage contract, as do all our endorsed candidates for state legislature and our party.(this is one big difference is that Pentel's party is firmly behind him on this issue). The national Green Party platform states "We support the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people in the areas of housing, jobs, civil marriage and benefits, child custody, and in all areas of life, the right to be treated equally with all other people." To tie this in to Mpls, I strongly encourage people who support equal rights for glbt people to take a close look at our Mpls endorsed candidates-Holle Brian for Senate District 62, Bonnie Smith for House District 58A and Eric Oines for House Seat 58B, and also Tim Davis for 5th Congressional District--on glbt issues, I can tell you they are all ahead of the DFL. With Pride, David Strand Statewide Co convenor MN Lavender Greens resident Loring Park __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
