The Minnesota for Marriage Coalition celebrates with us all the good news for marriage we're seeing!

The Minnesota for Marriage Coalition, a broad-based group of community and faith leaders and organizations and thousands of citizens supporting next year’s vote to preserve the definition of marriage as only one man and one woman in Minnesota’s constitution, pointed to recent voter and legislative actions in New York, North Carolina and New Hampshire as proof that marriage matters to voters, and that politicians who vote to redefine marriage are vulnerable.

“This has been a momentous week for marriage,” said John Helmberger, chairman of Minnesota for Marriage. “Clearly, these pro-marriage wins in New York, North Carolina and New Hampshire demonstrate what we have been saying all along – marriage matters to voters – and politicians who vote to redefine marriage will be held accountable by the electorate.”

Helmberger is referring to a string of pro-marriage victories in three separate states this week. [Continue reading]