Bachmann and her defense of marriage are in mainstream
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/10207397.htm>http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/10207397.htm
Battle claims:
"Leaders such as Minneapolis 5th Ward Council Member Natalie Johnson Lee, community activist Spike Moss and the Rev. John Thomas have added their voices of support for biblical marriage."
I'm curious whether Natalie Johnson Lee really made this statement. Does she support the Bachmann amendment to support "biblical marriage". When I googled Natalie Johnson Lee gay marriage, I retrieved items relating to her Green Party response to Bush's state of the union.
Martin Luther King, who Battle quotes, had a Leutenant - Bayard Rustkin who was openly gay. Rustkin was the brains behind the 1963 March on Washington. Coretta Scott King, King's widow has come out in opposition to these efforts to write anti-gay discrimination into state and federal constitutions.
From Natalie Johnson Lee's response to Bush's State of the Union:
"We support the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people in housing, jobs, civil marriage and benefits, child custody and in all areas of life, the right to be treated equally with all other people."
Does Bob Battle correctly speak on Natalie Johnson Lee's behalf in this oped? Or is he bearing false witness?
Does Battle mean that Natalie Johnson Lee has signed on in support of the Bachmann amendment?
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