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Prop homosexual Minnesota priest calls for archbishop’s resignation for defending marriage

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MINNEAPOLIS, November 9, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A Minneapolis -area priest has called for the resignation of Archbishop John Nienstedt after the archbishop supported Minnesota ’s effort to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex “marriage.” Fr. Michael Tegeder  wrote a letter to the editor  of the Minneapolis  Star-Tribune  oh Thursday requesting that Archbishop Nienstedt “prayerfully consider stepping down from his office.” Fr. Michael Tegeder did not defend heterosexual marriage. Calling Nienstedt’s support for the marriage amendment a “misguided crusade,” he suggested that the archbishop’s resignation would be “healing for our state” and “would show some magnanimity on [Nienstedt’s] part.” Tegeder has long been a dissenter from Catholic teaching on the issue of homosexuality. He and the archbishop have clashed repeatedly over the issue. Last year, Fr. Tegeder refused to comply with Archbishop Nienstedt’s request that all priests read a “marriage praye

‘Polyamory’: the next civil rights movement?

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Minneapolis, MN , October 29, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews ) – They used to call them “swingers.”  Not anymore.  These days, like most “alternative lifestyle” groups, they’ve adopted a new, more clinical-sounding description – polyamorist – and incorporated it into the names of a small but growing number of advocacy and social networking organizations.  As the battle over the true definition of marriage heats up nationwide, they want a place on the front line. Polyamorists now want a seat at the table of "equality" and "tolerance." “ Polyamorist ” means “lover of many,” and it’s exactly what it sounds like.  Polyamorists maintain more than one sexual relationship at a time, with the full consent and knowledge of all partners.  Some are married to one partner but maintain a rotating stable of lovers.  Others join together in more lasting unions between multiple partners – for example, a threesome or foursome (which they call ‘triads’ and ‘quads,’) wherein all part