The new Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL) chairman Ken Martin, asked LGBT people to encourage his election.   He consulted with outfront Minnesota (See Outfront.org) as to how to help Minnesota work against a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage in Minnesota being placed on the ballot in 2012.  

Yet so far in his weekly DFL Dispatch (the weekly e-news mail of the Party), he has not mentioned LGBT equality as a priority.   Once again, the LGBT community has been asked to support the election of a Chair with a sense of urgency.  Yet, once he has been elected, the urgency of LGBT equality has been placed in the back of his priorities. 

Over this past year, we have seen a large number of youth suicides in the Hennepin/Anoka School District because of bullying. 

The local Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Minnesota Family Council and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) are determined to get a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage on the 2012 ballot.

We are asking for fair minded Minnesotan's and American's to help us urge Ken Martin to assert the parties interest in pursuing equality for LGBT Equality.  We are asking Ken to write about the importance of LGBT equality in the DFL Dispatch as often as possible.