Allen Spear
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- Gay Rights pros and cons, Senator Spear in support
State Senator Allen Spear speaks on the day gay rights bill was passed by Senate at the legislature.
- Minnesota House and Senate approve gay rights
MPR’s Mike Mulcahy reports on bill passage in both Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives that changes the state's human rights law to prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians in areas like housing, employment and education.
- Gay rights bill advances in Senate commitee
MPR’s Pat Kessler reports on the Minnesota legislature’s latest attempt to take up the issue of gay rights. Report includes various viewpoints on the gay rights bill from advocates and opponents.
- Gay rights repeal rallies in St. Paul
Report on three different St. Paul rallies, pro and con, regarding the vote to repeal the gay rights ordinance. MPR's Pat Kessler, Kate Williams, and Dan Olson were at the events and provide excerpts from the activity, including speeches and interviews of attendees.
- Gay rights bill battle in the Minnesota Senate
MPR’s Debbie Gage reports on debate in Minnesota Senate chambers over gay rights bill, which would have given protection to gays in the areas of housing employment education and credit, but not sanction gay marriage or gay adoption. It also did not provide protection and public accommodations.
- Legislature considers handgun and divorce bills
MPR's Dulcie Lawrence gives a summary of events at the Legislature. Nicholas Coleman talks about his handgun bill, saying if the Attorney General now sues it will be many years before all the handguns in the state have a permit because you don?t have to do anything about collector guns because they aren?t registered. This bill will achieve the main purpose of reducing violent deaths. The 18 yr old majority bill status in House and Senate is updated. Divorce reform bill author Allen Spear says the bill removes the grounds that now exist that create acrimony, hypocrisy, and sham within the court for people who mutually decide to have a divorce but have to find grounds on which to request divorce. Instead this bill provides a mechanism for a couple who mutually agree on a divorce, the vast majority of cases, to do so without going through grounds that now exist.
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