First Minneapolis, and then St. Paul.
Via email:
From: Paul Skrbec
Subject: [stonewalldfl] State constitutional amendment opposedThe St. Paul City Council took a stand Wednesday against a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban gay marriage.
With a 6-1 vote, the council stated its opposition to the idea of asking Minnesota voters to approve an amendment that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Council Member Dave Thune introduced the resolution, which declared that the state constitution should “secure and protect the civil liberties and rights of all of our people.”
Council President Dan Bostrom cast the dissenting vote.
“I guess I’m one of those old-fashioned guys who believes a marriage is between a man and a woman,” Bostrom said.
The state House has approved a measure that would allow voters to consider the amendment during a referendum this fall, but a key Senate panel has rejected the amendment.
The Minneapolis City Council passed a resolution opposing the amendment last week.
— Robert Ingrassia
That’s way better than this Conscientious Objector Policy Act nonsense in Michigan. I’m so disappointed in my home state.
A bill to provide standards for personnel policies to protect the right of conscience of health care providers who conscientiously object to providing or participating in certain health care services under certain circumstances; to provide for protection from certain liability; and to provide for penalties and remedies.
Doesn’t your role as a health care provider supercede your moral objection to “distasteful practices”?
At first blush, the bill doesn’t seem to conflict with the Hippocratic Oath:
I will not give a fatal draught (drugs) to anyone if I am asked, nor will I suggest any such thing. Neither will I give a woman means to procure an abortion.
It’s that overarching “Above all, do no harm” theme that we seem to be having trouble with, since people have some strange ideas about who they think it is they’re saving.
UPDATE: I’m reminded that Governor Granholm has yet to sign the bills. And it’s highly unlikely that she will.
