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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

MINNEAPOLIS, MN , September 19, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Archbishop John Nienstedt of the diocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis stood on the steps of his State Capitol Tuesday and issued a call to all his fellow Minnesotans – Catholics and non-Catholics alike - to vote in favor of an amendment that would preserve the true definition of marriage. “What we so rarely hear on the discussion on the marriage amendment is that it is meant to be a positive affirmation of both the beauty as well as the importance of this fundamental union for society,” said Nienstedt, “and even more so for the children who are born of that relationship, that is to say the next generation to come.” “I ask all Minnesotans - all Minnesotans - to join us in voting yes on November 6th.” Archbishop John Nienstedt The archbishop was joined by about 40 Minnesotan clergy from a variety of denominations.  The main group opposed to the marriage amendment has been at pains to convince believers that s