Kids & Family

Priest's Sermon Against Marriage Amendment Goes Viral

Speech at Edina church argued why Catholics should vote 'no.'

There's no way of knowing how many of the 29,000 people who had watched a YouTube video of Father Bob Pierson's speech were locals, but one thing's for sure: his denunciation of the marriage amendment has struck a chord beyond the Catholics from Southwest Minneapolis who were there to listen.

Pierson was speaking to a crowd of area Catholics last month at a church in Edina as part of that would ban same-sex marriage. The state already has a law on the books banning civil recognition of same-sex marriages. The amendment is backed by Minnesota's Catholic bishops, led by Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul.

The video was originaly posted by Minnesotans United for All Families, a group fighting to defeat the amendment.

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