42 days: Sarah Stacy

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I'm choosing to vote no on the marriage amendment because I truly believe that love has no boundaries, when people find someone they want to commit to, marriage is the major bond that ties them together. Love should be shared not taken away.

42 days: Katey

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Why I am voting No this November.

42 days: Andy Jacobson

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I’m going to tell you upfront, I’m not a very political person. The most political I get is researching the candidates around elections. Honestly, that’s as political as I want to get. I don’t want to protest or debate. I’d rather just live my life, find a nice guy and settle down. Unfortunately, it is impossible to do this with the restrictions put on my relationship.

42 days: Rebecca

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No.
Why?
My name is Rebecca. I’m a junior at St. Cloud State University. If I hadn’t made the decision to move to a college where I wouldn’t know anyone and would have to learn to make new friends, I’m not sure I would vote the same way I am today.

42 days: Kelsey

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I’ve always known I’d be voting NO on the Marriage Amendment come election day – there was never a question in my mind. I’ve always believed everyone deserves the same rights and should have them in the eyes of the law. Unfortunately, that’s not even what this amendment is about. The Marriage Amendment, if it were passed, would change the constitution of the state of Minnesota to define marriage as between a man and a woman. If it does not pass, the constitution remains unchanged, but that still doesn’t make it legal. That would take yet another vote. I believe this is something quite a few people voting on the amendment still haven’t realized.

42 days: Trixi

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I was in California the day that gay marriage was legalized. While I didn’t see celebrations in the street, and I hadn’t even come out to my mother yet, I knew it was a big deal. Unfortunately, I was also in California for the entirety of the Prop 8 movement, and I had to witness discrimination, lies, ignorance, and the eventual heart break of having equality ripped from our hands. I was sitting with the majority of our college democrats club watching the election. We cheered when we learned Obama was the new president, but the energy in the room was sucked out when we found the fate of Prop 8. This issue was bigger than picking the president. I barely saw any political signs for candidates; it was all about the freedom to marry. And because we were on a liberal-dominated campus, it seemed like there was no way that this stupid proposition could pass.

42 days: Patrick Mefford

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The Conservative Case for Same Sex Marriage

I’m openly an atheist, nothing spectacular about that in the SSA. What does raise some eyebrows is that I am an atheist who openly identifies as a political conservative, which can make one a bit of a pariah in the “movement” so to speak. Happily, my local SSA group has been entirely accepting of me and my glorious co-president asked me to pen a blog post for his “42 days of No” campaign which not only honored me, encouraged me to dutifully comply. Before I make my simple case, I need to make some important clarifying points which might help readers unfamiliar with my opinions better understand them.

42 days: Robbie

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I spent a weekend in Minneapolis, recently. This was the first time back for me, after moving out of the state two months ago. While in the city, I spent a day in Uptown with an old friend; we walked around Lake Calhoun, had a nice dinner at Stella’s, and enjoyed a few drinks at William’s. There was one theme that was continually present though the course of the day, an overwhelming number of people and yard signs bearing the “VOTE NO” logo. I was incredibly surprised by the amount of visible resistance against this ballot initiative. Having spent four years in the Twin Cities going to UofM, I am well aware of how LGBT friendly the area is and I knew that this amendment would not be a guarantee for those that support it. What I did not expect was to see such open support against this bigotry on a sign in nearly every front yard I drove by. That weekend brought hope to my heart. The state that I came to age in, found myself in, and gained the confidence to finally come out in appears to have my back.

42 days: Kelsey

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I’ve always known I’d be voting NO on the Marriage Amendment come election day – there was never a question in my mind. I’ve always believed everyone deserves the same rights and should have them in the eyes of the law. Unfortunately, that’s not even what this amendment is about. The Marriage Amendment, if it were passed, would change the constitution of the state of Minnesota to define marriage as between a man and a woman. If it does not pass, the constitution remains unchanged, but that still doesn’t make it legal. That would take yet another vote. I believe this is something quite a few people voting on the amendment still haven’t realized.

42 days: Robert Arnow

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Vote no, because there's no such thing as gay marriage. There is only a legal covenant of care between consenting adults, who may or may not be together forever, who may or may not have children (which may or may not be related to them), who may or may not be of the same gender, and who may or may not be of the same sex. There is only this one marriage, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

42 days: Chris Benjamin

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I am human.

I am a brother, a son, a friend. I work fulltime, I go to school fulltime, and I try my darnedest to have somewhat of a social life. I love coffee at late hours, I read, I write. I love a really great plate of nachos and my preferred drink is a Long Island Iced Tea. I think mayonnaise is absolutely disgusting and generally avoid eating anything from a jar. I am kind, I am intelligent, I am sarcastic, and some days I fancy myself a poet. I do my best to make this world a better place it was than before, whether it be through advice, a hug, or just telling someone a joke. I am gay.

Even though I am a complex mixture of various traits and flaws, it is this last part that people seem to care about the most. Because I am gay, most people think of me as vile, a sinner, somebody who is less of a person than they are. They think that I “choose” this horrible lifestyle and that somehow my existence is corrupting the very foundation of society.

They forget that I am human.

42 days: Buttons

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Why vote No? There are so many reasons for me. My biggest being if this amendment is put into the constitution the LGBTQ community will continue to be seen as second-class, something less than human. I don't want anyone to go through the struggles I went through just to be accepted my own family and to gain the rights that most people already had.

Being a lesbian, when I find that special someone I do want to get married to them, not in a church since I'm Pagan and that would be weird, but I would like that piece of paper that says I'm committed to that person for the rest of my life. I know most people argue that it's only a piece of paper, but if that's true, why should it matter if I have it?