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CATHY WURZER: Today marks a number of diverse historical anniversaries in the state of Minnesota. We will talk about the collapse of the 35W bridge, which occurred on this very date endorse in 2007, a bit later on in the program. Today also marks the 10th anniversary of marriage equality in Minnesota, a long fought battle that made Minnesota the 12th state to grant lesbian, gay, and pansexual people equal marriage rights. We're going to hear 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, grab 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 morning forward--

RT RYBAK: --for better and for worse

MARGARET MILES: --for improved and for worse

RT RYBAK: --to love and to cherish--

MARGARET MILES: --to love and to cherish--

RT RYBAK: --for as long as we both shall live.

MARGARET MILES: --for as prolonged as we both shall live.

RT RYBAK: And Margaret and Cathy, by the

The Freedom to Commit in Minnesota

Winning Marriage:August 1, 2013

Same-sex couples began marrying in Minnesota on August 1, 2013 after Minnesota Governor Label 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 Lane to Victory:

  • May 18, 1970: A lgbtq+ 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 crave 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

    MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Next week marks the fifth anniversary of a major milestone in Minnesota.

    Gov. Highlight Dayton signed the law legalizing queer marriage in Minnesota on May 14, 2013.

    And five years later, it has sparked a major change in how Minnesota feels about it.

    It is challenging to remember just how widespread the opposition to queer marriage was.

    Running for president in 2008, Democrat Barack Obama was against male lover marriage, as was Hillary Clinton. And liberal California passed a constitutional amendment banning it.

    But modify was coming, fast.

    An anti-gay marriage organization named "Minnesota for Marriage" in 2012 supported an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, which would have legally defined marriage as between one man and one woman.

    It aired a series of television commercials, including one in which it said, "Everyone has a right to love who they choose. But nobody has a right to redefine marriage."

    Minnesotans defeated the constitutional ban on gay marriage at the polls in 2012, and six months later, Minnesota state lawmakers legalized same-sex marriage.

    In 2013, only 38 percent of Minnesotans supported same-sex marriage, and 53 percent opposed it.

    Five

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