Vote on Minnesota Senate Republican Leader Amy Koch's Marriage! (POLL)

A few days ago I write about the fact that Minnesota GOP Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch (pictured at right) was not going to seek re-election and had resigned from her leadership position. As you may recall, Koch held herself out as a champion of the "sanctity of marriage" and was backing the effort to pass an anti-gay marriage amendment to the Minnesota constitution. There was one slight problem: Koch had been caught engaging in an affair with someone not her husband and had demonstrated just how little she actual cared about her marriage vows or the so-called sanctity of marriage. But it gets better yet! Like many states, Minnesota has a statute still on the books that makes adultery a criminal offense. An article at Huffington Post looks at Amy Koch's hypocrisy. Better yet, you can cast a vote as to whether or not Koch should have the right to marry (she wants to put our marriage rights up for a vote, so she should likewise have her rights up for a vote). Here are highlights:

When the Republicans of Minnesota campaigned in the 2010 midterms, their top priority would be jobs and the economy, they told voters. But after taking power, a funny thing happened. The self-described "socially conservative" Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch decided that what really needed to be done was rewriting the State Constitution to permanently enshrine discrimination in the laws of the North Star State.

Under Amy Koch's majority leadership, the Minnesota Senate voted to amend the Minnesota Constitution to declare that "a marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in Minnesota." Koch, of course, voted for the bill herself.

[S]ome news has surfaced that begs the question: should defenders of the sanctity of marriage consider voting Koch out of their sacred matrimonial club? Amy Koch, a married mother of one, resigned her leadership position late last week. News reports say she was confronted by her Republican colleagues over an "inappropriate relationship" with one of her direct subordinates.

Turns out Koch could be in more trouble than just losing her job. Did you know the act of adultery is still a crime in Minnesota? Statute 609.36 reads:

Adultery.

Subdivision 1. Acts constituting. When a married woman has sexual intercourse with a man other than her husband, whether married or not, both are guilty of adultery and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than one year or to payment of a fine of not more than $3,000, or both.

Democratic Senator Ellen Anderson thought policing the private sex lives of citizens was perhaps not in the state's best interest and made an effort to repeal the law in 2010. But the usual staunch defenders of marriage objected. Tom Pritchard and his organization, the Minnesota Family Council (MFC), have long been out front and center trying to protect marriage from the gays. (Pritchard also famously suggested that kids bullied to death were asking for it.)

I have full confidence we can now expect Tom Pritchard to call upon the state to conduct a thorough investigation if the law of Minnesota has been violated. Enforcing the adultery statute vigorously will send an important message, after all. The "consequences" of letting scofflaws go unpunished are "enormous" to "the rest of society," I am told.

Amy Koch's own marriage would have been better off had she spent less of her time worrying about the gays defiling its sanctity and more time at home, practicing her family values, with her own family.

Please go to the article and vote on whether Kock should loose her right to marriage since she has defiled the "sanctity of marriage." I suspect you all know how I voted!