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Former News Anchor Campaigns Against Marriage Equality
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Former News Anchor Campaigns Against Marriage Equality
Former News Anchor Campaigns Against Marriage Equality
A former Minneapolis news anchor has become the face of the campaign for the anti-marriage equality amendment to the Minnesota constitution.
Kalley King Yanta (pictured), who is also a veteran of the anti-abortion rights movement, is anchoring a series of videos for Minnesota for Marriage, a right-wing coalition backing the amendment, which goes before voters in November, The Washington Independent reports. The first "Minnesota Marriage Minute" was released on the group's website last week, and least one new one will be posted each week. There also may be some radio and TV spots.
In an interview last week on the conservative Christian radio show Word of Truth,Yanta said she was moved to participate in the campaign because she believes heterosexual couples are best suited to raise children and because she fears that if same-sex marriage becomes widely accepted, those who oppose it could face serious consequences, including arrest.
"There are studies that are being conducted right now about how children are being raised and how that affects somebody in their psyche and in their self-esteem and in the various ways that that can affect a person being raised by either a man and a man or a woman and a woman," she told host Brad Brandon. "It's not natural."
She also commented, "If marriage between homosexuals is legalized, what would some of the consequences be? Parents who want to opt their kids out of the public school on the day that they're teaching about homosexual relationships, how it should be OK and accepted and everything, and the parents are charged with discrimination and are hauled away sometimes in handcuffs. ... We just can't allow this to happen."
Yanta, who has taped 30 of the videos so far, is a former anchor for Minneapolis TV station KSTP, an ABC affiliate. Minnesotans United for All Families, which opposes the amendment, noted on Facebook that the first video, opening with visuals of various families before Yanta speaks, "is full of stock images" but "strangely lacking in real Minnesotans. Perhaps they couldn't find any real Minnesotans willing to support their divisive agenda?" Watch the video below.