The Strib has a new metro writer... the Church Lady and she's TERRIBLE!

[Oreo]

This lady must be stopped
Katherine Kersten: Heterosexual marriage -- a universal institution
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5434976.html


DFLers at the Legislature want us all to take a siesta on the proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would define marriage as being between a man and a woman. Once again this year, the amendment -- which would prevent judges from redefining marriage in Minnesota -- passed the House but received no vote in the DFL-controlled Senate.

Minnesotans' opinions on gay marriage have shifted over the past year, but not in the direction that its supporters might wish. In May, a Star Tribune poll found that 52 percent of adults oppose gay legal unions, while 38 percent favor them, an increase in opposition of 10 percentage points in the past year. Across the nation, the trend has been the same.

Nevertheless, supporters of same-sex marriage seem to believe they're on the right side of history. They view the issue through the prism of civil rights, as the 2005 equivalent of getting black Americans out of the back of the bus.

Same-sex-marriage proponents employ a "commitment" definition of marriage, which sees marriage merely as society's way of giving its stamp of approval to an intimate, lasting relationship between two individuals.

--more--

[hobbit709]

1. Why do all the wingnuts

look like they haven't had a good satisfying shit for about 10 years?

[Demrock6]

4. lol! That is why they are so pissed and want to ruin lives of others.

[MnFats]

2. she is crazed. A pal of Katherine Harris, Coulter, others..

....a true wingnut...
....sad when newspapers must cave to yelping wingnuts who demand 'balance' on the op-ed page, when they'd all have a monotone op-ed page the other way if it were up to them....
....this wretched harpy will bring more trouble than she's worth.

[katinmn]

3. Ewwwwww! What happened to the beacon of light?

The Strib has been doing such a great job....

[CatholicEdHead]

5. Probably complaints of "liberal bias"

as I have heard the term "Star and Sickle" way too much.

Can't they find a better pic of her? She looks like she got up on the wrong side of the bed.

[suegeo]

6. She's awful, also part of fascist think tank

The swampthing republican helped to found a "think" tank in Minneapolis called the Center of the American Experiment. They had the mass murderer Henry Kissenger speak, I think Ken Starr is on the board, and Vin Weber is involved somehow.

The CAE is bad news.

ON EDIT: The pornographer Ken Starr is on the board of advisors.
http://www.amexp.org/AboutUs/Advisers.html

Vin Weber is a senior fellow.

(now I need a shower)

[trotsky]

7. Her columns have appeared in the Strib for years, haven't they?

Funny how a paper with such a "liberal bias" continues to give plenty of column time to Kersten and national conservatives like Will and Safliar.

[Oreo]

8. She did twice monthly articles from 95-03... she's a regular now

Here's the blurb that was next to her column. Should be fun reading!

Katherine Kersten's new metro column appears Mondays, Thursdays and occasionally on Sunday, adding a new voice to the Star Tribune. She has been a writer and commentator on public affairs in Minnesota for 20 years. She wrote a twice-monthly column for the newspaper's editorial pages from 1995 to 2003. She was senior fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, a Minneapolis conservative think tank, and for two years was chairwoman of its board.

Kersten has also practiced law and worked as a budget analyst at the University of Wisconsin -Madison. She is a graduate of Notre Dame, Yale and the University of Minnesota Law School.

Her column will cover a range of topics reflecting her experiences and interests, with a special emphasis on education, American culture, religion, family life, the suburbs and small-town Minnesota.

[no name no slogan]

9. She's been around for a while at the Strib

In fact, about ten years ago, I had a counterpoint opinion piece published in reply to one of her columns attacking the ADA and mental illness. She's largely uninformed about most issues and is nothing but a parrot for the right-wing party line.

IIRC she works for the Center of the American Experiment, which is the de facto policy arm of the MN GOP. The less said about them, the better.

[dodger501]

10. This is not Metro material

So they want a conservative voice to counter Coleman and Grow, ok fine. But get a real columnist in there. So far, her two columns have been screeching op-ed commentary.

Nick Coleman and Doug Grow at least get out and walk amongst the people of whom they write, like the NWA skycap. This woman probably won't go near any of the huddled masses her right-wing philosophies would affect.

This is not a Metro column, that is the problem in this instance, not that she is an ill-informed right-wing talking point-spewing parrot. That is a different issue.