On Saturday the Minnesota House of Representatives voted 70-62 in favour of a constitutional ban on same-s-x marriage. Republican Tim Kriesel gave an impassioned and moving address, explaining why he became an advocate for gay marriage rights and imploring his GOP colleagues to follow suit.
Republican’s rousing gay marriage plea
On Saturday the Minnesota House of Representatives voted 70-62 in favour of a constitutional ban on same-s-x marriage. Republican Tim Kriesel gave an impassioned and moving address, explaining why he became an advocate for gay marriage rights and imploring his GOP colleagues to follow suit.
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Wasn’t aware that you could legislate *constitutional* bans
That was a good plea
1) Rep Tim Kriesel is obviously a good and honourable man
2) He is confused about two things. A) being a republican and B) being a politician.
3) His decency is proof that not all Minnesotans are creeps. Michelle Bachman and Rep. Cravaack may together be two huge steaming piles of dung, but Kriesel is not. Kriesel is a good man, let’s just hope he straightens out his party alignments.
Notice how he did not once get interupted, or there were no yells or cat calls, no outbursts, ranting or raving (a “respectable debate” as the Rep stated). Australian politicians could learn a lot from this.