[Mpls] Bob Battle claims Natalie Johnson Lee Supports "Biblical Marriage"

[Mark Snyder]

Let's see.

You have Natalie Johnson Lee's own words and you have Bob Battle's claims.

I don't know what Bob Battle's deal is and I really don't care, but it seems
pretty straightforward to me that Natalie Johnson Lee would believe in what
she actually said...

Mark Snyder
Windom Park

On 12/19/04 9:31 AM, "Eva Young" <lloydletta at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Former DFL Activist, now Republican, Bob Battle wrote a column defending
> Michele Bachmann in the Pioneer Press last month:
> 
> Bachmann and her defense of marriage are in mainstream
> <http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/10207397.htm>http://w
> ww.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/10207397.htm
>  
> Battle claims:
> 
> "Leaders such as Minneapolis 5th Ward Council Member Natalie Johnson Lee,
> community activist Spike Moss and the Rev. John Thomas have added their
> voices of support for biblical marriage."
> 
> I'm curious whether Natalie Johnson Lee really made this statement.  Does
> she support the Bachmann amendment to support "biblical marriage".  When I
> googled Natalie Johnson Lee gay marriage, I retrieved items relating to her
> Green Party response to Bush's state of the union.
> 
> Martin Luther King, who Battle quotes, had a Leutenant - Bayard Rustkin who
> was openly gay. Rustkin was the brains behind the 1963 March on Washington.
> Coretta Scott King, King's widow has come out in opposition to these
> efforts to write anti-gay discrimination into state and federal constitutions.
> 
> From Natalie Johnson Lee's response to Bush's State of the Union:
> 
> "We support the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered
> people in housing, jobs, civil marriage and benefits, child custody and in
> all areas of life, the right to be treated equally with all other people."
> 
> Does Bob Battle correctly speak on Natalie Johnson Lee's behalf in this
> oped?   Or is he bearing false witness?
> 
> Does Battle mean that Natalie Johnson Lee has signed on in support of the
> Bachmann amendment?