Glenn Gruenhagen and Pope Francis might not see eye-to-eye on climate science, but when it comes to hating on the gay, policing bathrooms, and monitoring lady parts, Catholic Defense League board member and Minnesota Eagle Forum issues chair Marlene Reid (pictured above) has handed down a national award to the Glencoe Republican.
The Mcleod County Chronicle and the Hutchinson Leader report that Gruenhagen has received the 2015 Minnesota Eagle Forum Award, bestowed in September by Phyllis Schlafly at the Annual Eagle Forum Council in St. Louis.
In its lifestyle section, the Leader reports in Gruenhagen receives 2015 Minnesota Eagle Forum Award:
Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, recently received the 2015 Minnesota Eagle Forum Award for outstanding leadership in support of traditional marriage and for his dedication in affirming and advancing “pro-life, pro-family” efforts. . . .
“Rep. Gruenhagen understands that marriage and the family have formed the foundation upon which this nation is built,” said Marlene Reid, issues chairman for Minnesota Eagle Forum. “He is willing to step forward, sometimes into the lion’s den, to uphold that foundation and fight for conservative family principles.”
Reid added that Gruenhagen has said he will offer legislation in 2016 calling for an investigation of Planned Parenthood, and insisting that tax state and federal dollars no longer go to the organization.
“Furthermore,” she added, “Rep. Gruenhagen intends to demand that the Minnesota Department of Health conscientiously enforces Minnesota statute 145.1621, which provides for the dignified and sanitary disposition of the remains of aborted human fetuses.”
Here's a slightly longer version from the print edition of the Glencoe weekly; we're guessing it's the complete press release from the Minnesota Eagle Forum:
Gruenhagen wasn't the only topic on the agenda in St. Louis in September. Right Wing Watch's archives for the Eagle Forum note that conservative pundit Ann Coulter insisted in a speech to the annual council that US Must Reject Christian Refugees Fleeing ISIS,Students for Life shared their Plan To 'Take Out Planned Parenthood,' and for itself, the Eagle Forum itself Gears Up For Fight Against Gay 'Recruitment' … And Satan.
Reid is a familiar voice in letter-to-the-editor pages, defending the Catholic Church, as well as being a life-long Republican activist. As a state party vice chair in 1987, she opposed President Ronald Reagan's nomination of David Doty as a federal judge for Minnesota on the grounds that Doty wasn't pro-life.
At the 1992 RNC convention, she told CNN that she objected to the speech to the body by AIDS activist Mary Fisher, on the grounds that nobody had given a speech about cancer (Nexis database, accessed 12/5/2015). Fisher's speech is widely regarded as one of the turning points for public acceptance and discourse about HIV and people living with the infection.
As a past president of the Minnesota Human Life Alliance, Reid was involved in distributing paid newspaper supplements that reproductive rights author Robin Marty scrutinized in the series, Truth in Advertising? Not From Human Life Alliance.
With Reid by Gruenhagen's side next spring, we're going to have one heck of a session.
Photo: Minnesota RNC delegate Marlene Reid, age 81, wears a red and white crown on the floor of the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida 30 August 2012, prior to the start of the final day of the convention. Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney is expected to accept the nomination as the Republican presidential candidate. Photo via EPA/ERIK S. LESSER.
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