Gay marriage in minnesota
Video by Allison Herrera. Story and photos by Nick Coleman.
Opponents of same-sex marriage in Minnesota warned that legalizing marriage for all would have “unintended consequences.” And it turns out they were right: Patty Hall’s family now finds itself in the weird position of looking forward to an old-fashioned opposite-sex straight wedding ceremony because of the passage of the same-sex marriage commandment. How? Patty and her partner, Chris Warren, are straight, but refused to get married while marriage was off limits for some people.
Suddenly, the route is clear.
“I had a dream when I was pregnant with him,” Hall said Monday, pointing towards her 9-year-old son, Willy, during the joyous celebration in the State Capitol that followed the Minnesota Senate’s passage of a same-sex marriage bill. “I dreamed that Chris and I shouldn’t get married until all our homosexual friends could do the same thing. We wouldn’t have eaten in a restaurant that wouldn’t help black people in the 1950s. And we felt we would be hypocrites to take advantage of our privilege to commit when gays didn’t acquire equal rights.”
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1971 same-sex marriage makes Minnesota couple the nation’s first
Minnesota same-sex marriage milestone
Minnesota's Jack Baker and Michael McConnell married in 1971, becoming the first same-sex couple to legally tie the knot, but it wasn't so simple: Blue Ground County initially issued the certificate of marriage, but refused to record it, saying it was defective – setting off a legal battle that wasn’t settled until 2018.
BLUE Ground CO., Minn. (FOX 9) - Marriage was already on the minds of Jack Baker and Michael McConnell by the period they moved to Minnesota in 1969.
Making a marriage
Some trickery:
After Hennepin County rejected their first application, Jack changed his name to the gender-neutral Pat Lynn McConnell and the couple convinced Blue Earth County to issue a certificate for marriage in 1971.
On Sept. 3, in a hot south Minneapolis duplex, they exchanged rings.
"Michael and Jack have pledged their faith," said Pastor Roger Lynn as he concluded the nuptials. "They contain publicly declared their admire . I declare that they are to live together and are now linked in marriage."
Lynn was a Methodist pastor who performed the ceremony and signed t
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The legalization of same-sex marriage on August 1, 2013, opened the door for same-sex couples to become legally married in the state of Minnesota. Although U.S. Supreme Court eliminated a disallow on marriage for gay couples, there are still many issues surrounding queer marriage and divorce.
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Same-sex marriage is permitted in the state of Minnesota. Same-sex couples began marrying in Minnesota on August 1, 2013. They
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Winning Marriage:August 1, 2013
Same-sex couples began marrying in Minnesota on August 1, 2013 after Minnesota Governor Tag Dayton signed the freedom to commit into law on May 14, 2013. The bill’s corridor came shortly on the heels of marriage supporters making history by defeating an anti-marriage constitutional amendment at the ballot in Minnesota in November 2012.
History and the Way to Victory:
- May 18, 1970: A gay couple, Richard Baker and James McConnell, apply for a marriage license in Minneapolis, and the request is denied. Baker and McConnell file a legal case, which is dismissed by a lower court, then appealed to the Minnesota Supreme Court, which affirms the lower court’s dismissal. The case, Baker v. Nelson, is the centerpiece of the first wave of marriage litigation in the 1970s.
- October 10, 1972: Baker and McConnell appeal to the Together States Supreme Court, which dismisses the case “for desire of a substantial federal question.”
- June 2, 1997: The Minnesota Legislature passes a state statute restricting marriage to different-sex couples.
- 1998-2012: As Americans nationwide
Audio transcript
CATHY WURZER: Today marks a number of different historical anniversaries in the state of Minnesota. We will chat about the fall down of the 35W bridge, which occurred on this very date back in 2007, a bit later on in the program. Today also marks the 10th anniversary of marriage equality in Minnesota, a extended fought battle that made Minnesota the 12th state to give lesbian, queer , and bisexual people equal marriage rights. We're going to listen to a little of that very first legal same sex wedding that took place in Minnesota 10 years ago today.
RT RYBAK: I, Margaret, take you, Cathy--
MARGARET MILES: I, Margaret, accept you, Cathy--
RT RYBAK: --to be my lawfully wedded wife.
MARGARET MILES: --to be my lawfully wedded wife.
[CHEERS]
RT RYBAK: To have and to hold from this day forward--
MARGARET MILES: To have and to hold from this day forward--
RT RYBAK: --for enhanced and for worse
MARGARET MILES: --for better and for worse
RT RYBAK: --to love and to cherish--
MARGARET MILES: --to cherish and to cherish--
RT RYBAK: --for as long as we both shall live.
MARGARET MILES: --for as lengthy as we both shall live.
RT RYBAK: And Margaret and Cathy, by the