After a month of sadness over marriage equality victories in Illinois and Hawaii, as well as the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA) by the United States Senate, Minnesota for Marriage (M4M) is so not moving on.
Forum Communications political reporter Don Davis writes in Capitol Chatter: Group making gay marriage an election issue:
The Minnesota for Marriage organization, which promoted a gay marriage ban, recently sent an email soliciting donations by criticizing Rep. Tim Faust, D-Hinckley, who has said “most people have moved on.”
“Do you agree: Have you ‘moved on?’” the organization asked its supporters.
“Apparently, Rep. Faust thinks that simply because other states have passed same-sex ‘marriage’ since he voted to pass Minnesota’s same-sex ‘marriage’ law in May (even though you, along with the vast majority of his constituents wanted to keep Minnesota as a true marriage state), you will forget about his vote by the time his re-election comes around,” Minnesota for Marriage wrote.
The anti-equality group is the Miss Havisham of Minnesota politics.
M4M first scolded Faust for the remark on its Facebook page on November 18, in a headnote for a shared link to Gay marriage backlash quiets – for now, a Brianna Bierschbach story in Politics in Minnesota.
Here's the full context in Bierschbach report about Faust, the suitor who jilted M4M:
“I think we are seeing that other states are doing this, and I think that by the time next election comes around it will not be near the issue people said it was going to be and what we thought it was going to be,” said DFL Rep. Tim Faust, who supported gay marriage this spring. “As a rule, there have been more positive comments than negative. Most people have moved on.”
Issue has small impact
Faust is a Lutheran minister from Hinckley. His House district voted in favor of the constitutional ban on gay marriage, and Faust didn’t know which way he would vote until shortly before the issue came up on the House floor. He’s been door-knocking in his district since the legislative session ended, and while some have expressed anger over his vote, most have thanked him or said they’ve changed their view on gay marriage.
When it comes to his bid for re-election next fall, Faust said the gay marriage vote will only have a small impact on his chances.
“It’s going to motivate people, the 25 to 30 percent of people in my district who are very strongly opposed to it, and maybe they will be more motivated to work against me and work for my opponent,” Faust said. “It’s going to make a difference, but is it going to make a difference in the mind of the independent voter? I don’t think so.”
But from the distant of the M4M's metro offices, mention of Faust's apostasy in a fundraising email might move some cash into their hands.
Faust was first elected to the Minnesota House in 2006; he was defeated in the Republican wave election of 2010, but was re-elected in 2012.
Image: Helena Bonham Carter's Miss Havisham. Movie still from the Lionsgate production of Great Expectations.
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