Catholic Church, NOM register PACs in Minn. ahead of same-sex marriage amendment campaign
The Minnesota Catholic Conference, the policy wing of Minnesota’s Catholic bishops, and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) have registered political action funds (PACs) with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board. The two funds join the Minnesota Family Council Marriage Protection Fund in hopes of raising money to convince voters to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
The PACs will allow the groups to raise money for political activity surrounding the 2012 ballot initiative. NOM’s PAC is registered in Washington, D.C., under the name of the group’s president Brian Brown. The Minnesota Catholic Conference was registered by that group’s head, Jason Adkins.
In addition to NOM, MCC and MFC, the Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign has registered a fund to defeat the amendment.
Other groups have registered ballot initiative campaigns, including It’s Personal to Me Campaign, a north Minneapolis group; Minnesota For Marriage, a coalition of MCC, MFC and NOM; Minnesotans United for All Families, the main coalition in opposition to the amendment; OutFront Minnesota Marriage Equality, the state’s largest LGBT advocacy organization; and Republicans Against the Minnesota Marriage Amendment.
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Comment posted June 11, 2011 @ 8:10 pm
If the intent of this bill had been couched in terms of preventing right-to-life groups from displaying grizzly abortion pictures would the liberals be concerned?
Comment posted June 11, 2011 @ 8:12 pm
Yes I would. Very. I detest the disgusting torture porn abortion “activists” are so fond of … I will die defending their right to show them.
Comment posted June 11, 2011 @ 8:14 pm
Pictures of Sarah Palin cause me great emotional distress!
Comment posted June 11, 2011 @ 10:02 pm
Images of roman torture devices intimidate and cause emotional distress, can we ban those?
Comment posted June 11, 2011 @ 11:00 pm
Let’s just change the name of the country: The United Bugshit Nuts States of Amerika . A gigantic – even by the standards of ’08 – economic collapse is coming. Gee – kinda like the Second Coming of Christ (almighty)… so what does any of it matter? Obumma (who I voted for, phone-banked for, sent money to, bought the T-shirt [which I now use to shine my shoes] from) has pulled off an even bigger swindle than The Smirking, Lying, Mass-Murdering, Moronic, Faux-texan {I’ll NEVER capitalize “texas” again} Monkey’faced, Cowardly Skunk Pretending-to-be-from-crawford, Frat-boy Punk: at least we knew what we were really getting with Shrub – Obama’s lies are that much bigger by comparison.
He has done NOTHING to stop what’s coming but, rather, has sold out everything that might have helped. And participated knowingly & enthusiastically in the criminal coverup for The Banksters who stripped 12 TRILLION out of the economy. Why not a completely psychotic, totalitarian law in tennessee… has anyone in the tennessee (I’ll never captalize tennessee again either) legislature even HEARD of 1984? How about even the movie of Fahrenheit 451? Is every SANE person in this country going to have to move to France? Guess I’ll have a Long Island Tea and go ride my bike….
Comment posted June 11, 2011 @ 11:06 pm
Oh give it a rest you mindless A*****e. And learn how to spell “grisley”….
Comment posted June 11, 2011 @ 11:18 pm
I find the pictures of Fracking emotionally distressful. But then that plays right into their hands: the real intent of this, of course, is to prevent any images of the TRUTH getting out about what the “unregulated” vampires are inflicting on this country on every conceivable level: Mountaintop coal mining destroying the Appalachians; Clear cutting the 1% of old growth forests that are left; Destroying the Gulf & the Bayou; Criminal foreclosures in every state; The quasi-murder of 1800 Black Americans in N.O. so K R could get a rethugnican governor elected; Poisoning the aquifers with “fracking” sludge; Well………the list of criminal events that can be kept from being exposed on TV or the Internet is endless…….. Beam me up Snotty……………I need a drink.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 1:15 am
NervoLecluque has made a double fool of himself by insulting John, who did NOT mispell the word grizzly. Jon’s error was that he used the wrong word. Nervo made the wrong correction, then was ignorant enough to mispell it as well. The correct spelling is GRISLY. There is no such word as grisley. Next time you’re trying to make yourself look good by making someone else look bad try doing it as if you had a brain AND a spellcheck.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 1:24 am
You would die defending someone’s right to do something disgusting and probably misleading (they speed up those films to make it look like the fetus is hpopping around in pain when, in fact, the fetus has not yet developed the nerves with which to register or feel pain) in order to scare someone into doing what they want them to do? Sounds like a mistake to me. I’d rather die for something that really did help people instead of protecting someone’s right to lie, decieve and mislead in order to make their point. Freedom of speech yes… freedom to lie and intimidate… NO WAY!
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 2:48 am
Tea Party rallies cause me emotional distress. Because they are traitors.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 3:34 am
Yes – a double fool, and ignorant to boot. I looked it up beforehand – and found precisely the spelling I used. Jon “used the wrong word”? He used the right word – if he was referring to urus horribilis. If not, he then doesn’t know the difference between a bear and an abortion video.. But then, maybe Jon was punning on Sarah Pailn….. she is, definitely, a grisly (do you like that better “Dancer”) mom.
And maybe I misread his meaning – it sounded like the same old, tired, right-to-life crap that even prevents stem cell research. If so – I apologize to Jon. If not, well….. gosh “Dancer” – I’ll go do some real soul-searching …. maybe a brain transplant would help. Or just some stem cells….
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 3:43 am
I agree completely – there’s a black-and-white difference between Freedom of Speech and purposeful lying. The latter should be a felony. But then every corporate head and politician would be a convicted felon. As would all the advertising agencies who write the copy for all the sleazy drugs being shilled on television. Gradually waking up to the lies & B.S. behind the American Dream, I’m not interested (anymore) in “dying for my country”. Until the Bush twins or any other politician’s kids are walking point on the first squad into the jungle.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 4:25 am
Okay.. I’m sorry… I was irritated because with all the genuine discussion going on you were correcting his spelling! Why put someone down for something so inconsequential? It’s not like you didn’t know what he was saying. He was using grizzly [bear] instead of grisly[ [yucky]. I have since looked it up in several of my dictionaries and there is no grisley spelling in any of them. This was further confirmed by several of my english teaching colleagues and no one will buy the grisley spelling. What dictionary did you find it in please, because now it is bugging me… In very rare instances a dictionary can make a mistake and I want to track this down for my own picky ass reasons.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 4:35 am
It wasn’t always this way. There was a time when most senators were actually trying to serve their constituents needs. There was a time when no moderator let you LIE in a political debate and no mud-slinging was allowed either. I haven’t heard a real issues-only, debate in so long…. sigh…
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 5:35 am
For Tennessee, I guess this means no more scary movies on tv, no more grisly images of car crashes on the evening news, and say goodbye to ever seeing anyone with last name Judd again.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 6:00 am
Dancer – I don’t see it as inconsequential. I’m on Craigslist every day – and the degeneration in spelling (spelling equals meaning) is appalling. If you can’t pay enough attention to the spelling of your native language – i.e., if you just can’t be bothered to pay attention to even the funda-fucking-mentals, how can you deal with the complexity of what’s really going on around you – and the malevolent forces that are destroying – or already have destroyed – what little was left of democracy when another brilliant but naive “progressive” (Clinton) took over from Daddy Dubya. We are in a literal shitstorm – economically, environmentally, politically, socially, and half the country is too effing STUPID to get it. They don’t know the difference between there, their & they’re, between then & than, or when a boat has a trailor or a moter. It’s your F*****G language – at least learn to spell it. Watch “Century of the Self” (Google) – that’ll give you something to stay awake and think about. We are in DEEP shit, and the evil games that are being played against us by the banksters & the politicians are stunning. I’m 67, a veteran, a university graduate – and I’m STILL learning about just how filthy all this is. And Obumma’s either a hopeless fool or as cynical an S.O.B. as Dick Cheney. I’ve got a knee-jerk reaction to ANY of the right-wing-nut, fundamentalist religious Liberpublican mindless crap I read, hear or see. I may have misread Jon’s post, but it sure read like more of that right-to-life birther crap. But I hear what you’re saying – and you’re dead on.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 6:03 am
I get distressed when I see these TV Ministers begging for money. Pat Robertson fits in that category. I also am distressed when I see anyone wearing a crucifix and doesn’t act “Christ” like, but acts like an arse-hole
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 6:11 am
Now that pretty much defines the limits of your intellect……….”Erd”
Duh, youse guys must be a coupla lezzies, duh, nah, I mean homos………… Voting for Newt this time “Erd”? Or is it Pailn? Or Bachmann? Nah – it’s gotta be Rand “the idiot” Paul. How’s that I.Q. thing workin’ out for ya, “Erd”
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 6:20 am
Yeah – I’m living in the back end of an unfinished basement on $814 a month SS, and waiting for the “recovery” – while Obumma’s buddies in the banks sit on 2 TRILLION, and the last 2 weeks have been spent yammering about Anthony’s Wiener….. Maybe they’ll ask Vitter to resign too, after his diapered bondage and degradation interludes with low-rent whores….
Maybe Obumma can slip a federal infrastructure jobs program by while these assholes are distracted by Weiner’s adolescent stupidity. Nah – he doesn’t give any more of a S*** about us than Bush did. They’ve wrecked the country – but they all live in gated communities….
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 6:31 am
I just Googled that spelling and went with what was on the screen. I used to be a “champion” speller – but my mind is fading……. but I do know the diff between a big bear and a repulsive video….. I’ll try not to be such an a-hole in the future, which is just around the corner.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 9:00 am
This is what my thoughts immediately went to. What about fiction? How on earth can someone say that you can’t display an image that MIGHT “frighten, intimidate, or cause emotional distress?” It’s absurd. It really is.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 5:09 pm
I always enjoy a good rant… and this was no exception! Funny how people are funnier when they’re mad.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 5:13 pm
Adam Curtis (The Century Of Self) has a new series out, Hang on, I’ll look up the full show… here it is:
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Ep. 1) – Full
in case the link doesn’t “take”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz2j3BhL47c
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 5:22 pm
If any 14 yr old sees that graphic of yours that’d be Corruption Of A Minor too. Turn yourself in to the cops now and you might get a reward…
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 7:52 pm
gay democrats, democrats that send nude pic to young girls cause me great distress
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 8:35 pm
How about Republican governors who father illegitimate children, or hang out with foreign golddiggers while having your staff say you’re hiking and then turn around and say you’re for family values. Seriously, does Weiner surprise you? No. Sanford? If you actually believe his malarkey about being a Christian (when he supports the party of the atheist wh&re Ayn Rand), it does.
People who follow the GOPTP have had their ticket to hell bought by Ayn Rand. They can join her, along with bin Laden, Hitler, and Falwell, for one big damned for eternity party.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 9:10 pm
Here’s the most emotionally disturbing image I know of: The crucifix. It is an image of a suffering man on an instrument of torture. Said man’s father is a well-documented genocidal deity.
So, TN lawmakers. When are you going to remove this image from my sight.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 9:11 pm
Let’s look at the logic of this man’s statement:
Gay democrat.
Gay democrat that send nude pic to a girl.
What’s wrong with this picture? Oh, it’s the ILLOGIC of it. As usual, Teatards have no foothold in reality.
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 10:56 pm
will it bring an end to the ‘War on Terror’ which is terrorizing half the world
Comment posted June 12, 2011 @ 11:00 pm
France is becoming increasing right wing, you won’t find much sanity there. Try Iceland or Norway, but dress warm.
Comment posted June 13, 2011 @ 1:03 am
I am ashamed and embarrassed to say that I live in TN but overjoyed to say that I did not vote for this idiot!!!
Comment posted June 13, 2011 @ 1:13 am
You can say and do just about whatever you like. You justify and squelch news of anything with enough $$$power$$$. What if their purpose is to ensnare, not the guilty, but everyone they can manage to snatch up? It’s just another in a plethora of totalitarian-style methods of indoctrination, state-terror and ruthless crowd control. They’ve been slipping it (“it” would be the substitution, via patriot act, of our constitution and bill of rights by those same patriot acts and their ever more repressive revisions) to us bit by bit ever since Cheney got full control – and yes, he ran the whole oligrchical octopus and is among other things, a genocidal war criminal, traitor, grifter, con man hustler and dealer in hundreds of multi-million dollar, covert, no-bid government contracts to help fund the PNAC shadow goverment’s New World Order.
Oh well… at least living on a coast, I will be swept away by a tsunami or the local nuclear facility will explode from old age and I’ll be spared the earthquakes, forest fires, tornadoes and the HARSHnext little ice age which will twin with the worst climate changes… it will be a real frying pan in much of the world. Lots of dust….
Comment posted June 13, 2011 @ 1:23 am
Being brainwashed from birth, isolated from the rest of the planet and kept truly ignorant and unsophisticated to boot! And might I add largely via home-schooling …. We are the only developed nation in the world that even ALLOWS home-schooling! Trickle Down Reality >>>—-> (same day humans became self-aware) never teach the slaves to read — (1980) at least not enough to be able to read WELL, make connections and think for themselves.
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Comment posted June 13, 2011 @ 7:20 am
Well, that pretty well kills the chance of any GOP candidate compaigning in Tennessee. Seeing their images or hearing their rhetoric certainly causes me emotional distress.
Comment posted June 13, 2011 @ 10:31 am
the way to kill this law is to file complaints every time there is an anti-abortion protest where they show bloody fetuses and to file complaints every time there are pictures of tanks, machine guns and bombers.
Comment posted June 13, 2011 @ 12:40 pm
First Amendment (freedom of speech)
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
~US CONSTITUTION
Boy, is Bill confused, or what?
Comment posted June 13, 2011 @ 5:34 pm
No problemo. There’s a good BBC radio interview with Adam Curtis too..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9s-yTFTa-w
That’s Part 2 where Adam talks more.
Part 1 lost me coz the DJ is a crashing bore!
Comment posted June 13, 2011 @ 8:10 pm
This is all stunning info – they’ve sure kept most (or all) of his work from being broadcaster in the United SnakesTo have it all put together so well & graphically is mind blowing – esp England & Russia. The exposure of how we fucked up the Soviet transition, and of Maggie Thatcher’s dreamworld was a revelation. Can’t wait for his take on the U.S. economy starting with the dereg that took down the S&L industry. I’ll watch these at least twice each. His take on what was done to the Clintons should be required University viewing. Thanks again for linking me up with this – it pulls together everything I’ve been reading for 40 years. Too bad Obumma hasn’t seen these.— squs.net wrote:.From: “Disqus” <> well amd sp graphically wellTo: tsmythe@hotsheet.comSubject: [washingtonindependent] Re: New Tennessee law makes it illegal to display an image that causes ‘emotional distress’Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:34:40 -0000hidflect wrote, in response to NervoLecluque:No problemo. There’s a good BBC radio interview with Adam Curtis too..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9s-yTFTa-wThat's Part 2 where Adam talks more. Part 1 lost me coz the DJ is a crashing bore!Link to comment: http://disq.us/28ybw0NervoLecluque wrote:Thanks – really appreciate that.—–Options: Respond in the body to post a reply comment.To turn off notifications, go to: http://disqus.com/account/ HotSheet web directory – the original single page directory of popular and useful web sites -> http://www.hotsheet.com
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 12:23 am
So posting a picture of Bill Haslam to others very well could be considered OFFENSIVE, by most in the State, as he is offending everyone in the state by his Big BS Bootlicking to the Fundie groups. TN is going deeper and deeper into the crapper. And that is fact.. by the way.. he is NOT my Governor…
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 12:27 am
likewise…. he is nothing more than an Obstructionist. He will never make it Politically with this type of Nazi behavior. He is signing is his own Political Death Warrant, in which when we get a real Governor in place, we can just have him repeal every single thing Haslam sis to botch this state back into the 17th century.
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 4:29 pm
wow .. are you serious .. somethings are just mind blowing so if I try to market something that can stress someone out … it would be illegal?? Talk about companies that find it hard to market and do business there because are afraid to stress anyone out .. then talk about everyone that will not have a job … stupid laws affect everything and some serious repercussions talk about real estate prices taking a bigger dip … sometimes I just wonder how do people get elected .. just wondering .. Santa Maria Real Estate
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