Via Metroblogging, where Erica has some comments: Three Minnesota couples, including Duane and myself, are preparing to sue the state of Minnesota for denying us our constitutional right to civil marriage. The Minneapolis law firm of Mansfield, Tanick and Cohen has been selected to bring the case against the state. Because the legal fees associated with this case are expected to be thirty to forty thousand dollars, litigants are seeking thirty to forty lesbian and gay couples to join in the suit, which is expected to be filed later this summer.
Gay Couples Preparing to Sue State
Jul 21 2008 — 2:00am
24 Reader Comments
2:20 pm
I’m betting I will live to see a day when gay marriage is legal in all 50 states.
2:22 pm
Only if you cut out all that smoking!
2:39 pm
Why now, I wonder.
2:46 pm
we need to make gay marriage legal so that, if for no other reason, gays can be allowed to suffer just like the rest of us.
3:13 pm
What if the gays marry and they are way better at it than str8 people?
Homes will finally be rid of all the fucking kitchy country shit.
It will destroy the ceramic rooster industry!
The entire shabby chic business will disappear over night!
We cannot let this happen.
3:23 pm
Dougie- have you ever been in a lesibian’s house? No worries about ceramic roosters going out of style, or any other ugly ass shit.
3:28 pm
Only if you cut out all that smoking!
We are already more than halfway there…
Why now, I wonder
Why not? Plus, there is what Dr. King called “fierce urgency of now.”
3:30 pm
dude, I tried to check out your blog to see a bit more information about this lawsuit, but your web page is TGFW- too gay for work. In other words, hot pink– not a good color for a website–If someone looked over my shoulder they’d either think I was looking at porn or know I was looking at something non-work related. So I closed it immediately.
And, IMO, the word ‘cum’ should not ever be printed on any website, especially a hot pink gay one.
But really…
What if you don’t get 30 or forty couples to help shoulder the cost–are you locked in to 40 G’s for this? And what if only a few sign up before the frim starts working on it–do they have to shoulder the cost for the missing couples?
3:52 pm
The “Bravenet Free Counter” is preventing that blog from loading at all for me.
3:52 pm
Too gay for work? Srsly?
4:14 pm
Well, the TGFW part was a joke….
But I do work in a professional setting, and I don’t look at sites that attract undue attention. Maybe when I go home I will look at it, but probably not.
4:17 pm
I ONLY go to sites that are pink.
4:26 pm
Dougie, if gays do get to marry, The number of family memberships to lifetime fitness will skyrocket, IKEA will be eternally oversold on almost everything, and Craigslist ‘casual encounters’ section will be virtually empty…
4:28 pm
There are no ceramic roosters or wooden cats or any other shit like that in my house.
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What if you don’t get 30 or forty couples to help shoulder the cost–are you locked in to 40 G’s for this?
There will be fundraising, I’m sure.
The “Bravenet Free Counter” is preventing that blog from loading at all for me.
I quoted the entire post at Metblog. A lot of the rest of his blog is about his experience helping to craft the recently-introduced-but-not-voted-upon Marriage And Family Protection Act. So click through, or not.
Also, Marriage Equality Minnesota .
4:29 pm
I only go to sites my skin tone or darker.
Did anyone ever have the box of crayons that were just various skintones? My mom got me that and a coloring book one day when I was 8. Useless since the book had few people, mainly animals.
Anyway, my monitor is set to only display colors that were in that box of crayons. Including the white MacBook I use at work.
It’s so oppressive, that MacBook.
4:29 pm
The number of family memberships to lifetime fitness will skyrocket
Try the YWCA.
IKEA will be eternally oversold on almost everything
It’s not already?
and Craigslist ‘casual encounters’ section will be virtually empty…
You might actually be right there.
4:34 pm
The only way ceramic roosters and shit are going to go out of style is if there’s a ban on grandparents.
Vote “yes” on proposition 856: Keep wooden spoons off walls and in drawers.
And “No” on prop 666: Precious Moments figurines have no place in the home. It’s the way the good lord really intended it to be.
Re: contextual ads at the bottom of this post.
Is Miami really the closest place for gays to go for a good time? Try harder, ads!
4:44 pm
Try the YWCA.
Please don’t. You have no idea how deflating it is to spot an attractive girl at the gym only to see British Open style goarse when she reaches up to grab the lat bar.
5:20 pm
There are no ceramic roosters or wooden cats or any other shit like that in my house.
Give it time.
In my experience, older lesbians have all kinds of this shit. I have no idea why though. All my younger (under 40) lesbian friends have great style in clothes, decorating, etc. It is a real generation gap in the lesbian world. Someone should do a PhD. thesis about this.
9:31 pm
Why couldn’t the firm take this case on a contingency basis? Or do they expect not to win? I don’t know how this works.
10:03 pm
@sandburg perhaps because the law firm thinks the case is a long shot? I honestly don’t know.
10:39 pm
might be more of an injunctive relief deal, or they expect nominal damages. 30 percent of nothing is nothing.
12:36 am
Ceramic roosters? A bit Freudian, don’t you think?
11:23 am
Ceramic roosters? A bit Freudian, don’t you think?
That’s glass, not ceramic.