I have performed many wedding ceremonies at Forepaugh's restaurant in St Paul, MN, but it now has new owners. I've reviewed the restaurant in the past, but it may be different now.
Tomorrow, I'm performing a wedding ceremony with the new management - stay tuned for a review!
Proposition 8, which will be on the November ballot in CA, is at risk of passing. If passed, gay marriage will be banned in California after being allowed earlier this year. (California and Massachusetts are the only two states that allow gay marriage.)
Until recently, opposition to the prop held a healthy lead. But with an infusion of cash and more ad spending, the measure has gained support and is now succeeding by about 4 points.
Supporters of the anti-gay-marriage Prop 8 are running ads on TV and radio claiming that the government is trying to force children to accept homosexuality along with other false claims. The ads are working. Support for the proposition has grown in the places where they are running enough ads to pass the measure.
If you're interested in helping, you can donate money at http://www.noonprop8.com/home - The more money available, the more ads that can run to show people what is at stake if this measure passes.
If you can't donate, you may want to help spread the word to anyone you know in CA about prop 8. Few people know that it's even up for debate or know that a measure exists to defeat it.
(Note - the commitment ceremonies I have held in Minnesota are non-binding...gay weddings may come to Minnesota eventually, but not yet!)
Thank you, loyal readers, for your patience and support!
After this incredibly popular "MN Wedding Blog" (thank you, City Pages and Blog of the Day Awards!) was unfortunately hacked last month, the outpouring of support was amazing. Dozens of emails expressed concern. Readers from as far as New York and Florida were reading my blog, as they were planning their weddings from out of state, or helping friends plan their Minnesota wedding. Thank you, MN brides and grooms!
Backstory: Last month, spammers had hacked into my website, mnweddingminister.com, through my open-source Wordpress blog and the hackers installed 20,000 pages of spam onto my website. The website then had to be temporarily taken down. Yipe! It was the same naughty bunch who hacked into Al Gore's blog, and Matt Heaton's blog (CEO of Hostmonster and Bluehost).
Anyway, while the three years of blog postings were permanently lost, there is some good news, though - through the help of Security Consultant Ben Christensen of Kinetic Data, we were able to:
Next - the most popular web posts - recreated!
