Gay Marriage Opponents in Minn. to Debut Two TV Ads
Gay Marriage Opponents in Minn. to Debut Two TV Ads
The group promoting a constitutional ban on gay marriage in Minnesota is debuting its first two TV ads of a heated campaign on Monday, one that argues it’s important to keep the traditional definition of marriage between opposite sex couples only and another that mentions several ways that definition could be changed through legal or judicial means.
Minnesota for Marriage campaign manager Frank Schubert told The Associated Press the group is spending about $175,000 to air the two ads throughout October. With their chief rival campaign already on TV the last two weeks, the ads signal the five-week homestretch for the multimillion-dollar political battle over gay marriage in Minnesota.
Both ads avoid an aggressive tone, with one featuring a narrator who says that “everyone has a right to love who they choose.” But together they argue that male-female marriage has been a building block of society for centuries, and that inserting that definition into Minnesota’s constitution would prevent judges or elected officials from changing it without the OK of voters.