I've had to have all my political signs replaced after they've been taken on Lake Elmo Ave.

I don't even know why we have to vote to make this important civil rights issue a law.

Discrimination is not allowed...wasn't that part of the civil rights to all already covered? No one has the right to decided who gets to love who. Everyone already has the right to do that. Stop Judging others, and behave in a civil manner. You are the ones breaking the law by stealing signs, yet you seem to have placed yourself at a morally higher level. Please explain why you feel the right to hate people for loving and maybe you will find in your heart that your explanation can only prove your Judgement are wrong! Love Love Love everyone and everything!

Most of the "Vote Yes" signs that were handed out during a church service we attend were stolen/vandalized, only a handfull were not. The priest said the following week that he purposely didn't hand out bumper stickers because of fear of vandalism to people's vehicles. Regardless of how you plan to vote on the subject, it is just as much your right to have your sign up for your side of the issue/candidate as it is the next guy's even if you completely disagree with their choice. Hopefully the thugs that are messing with campaign signs (from ANY side/candidate) gets caught by the person that decides to put an infrared deer camera out and catch them with enough evidence to convict to the fullest extent of the law...

ROFL, typical liberal response... Sad and completely not surprising...and they call us intollerant.

RNC comes to town, hundreds of riot police are required to hold the violent liberals at bay; Occupy wallstreet, same thing; as a group and individually they can't argue with facts and logic so they resort to name calling, lies, destruction of property, and even violence.

I'm a fiscal conservative who supports the right of gays to marry, but you don't see me throwing rocks through church windows or defacing signs.

You might be surprised to learn who is doing this stuff. This is an old trick known as Rovian Projection, which is taking your own weakness (in this case, intolerance) and using it against the opponent (asserting, albeit falsely, that it is their weakness).

This is a well known Republican strategy. In this case, since you are perceived by a great part of the community (and many of the key independent/swing voters) as being intolerant and hateful you attempt to create the same perception of your opponent (oh, look, they are burning signs, so THEY must be the hateful and intolerant ones (not US)). You project the behavior you are guilty of onto the other party. This is the oldest trick in the Rovian playbook.

The really blatant one (over the top, really) shown in the photo is the dead giveaway, really the smoking gun, as to who is actually defacing these signs for their own political benefit.

I'm 99% sure that the vote no group is NOT the ones doing this.

This is quite likely some political fun and games from the Vote Yes crowd.

Don't be manipulated by it.

There are just some people who just can't stand not having their way. Self rightousness, self service, self indulgence, the big SELF is all they know and they have no difficulty telling eveyone else how selfless they really are. No one else counts. They have all the answers and no answers at all. They want freedom but have no difficulty taking freedoms away from others. They want the good life but pay for nothing. Anyone ever heard of Oppositional Defiant behavior well the hijacked republican party is a day to day study of the disorder. Whatever anyone puts out to them they will move to the opposite, regardless. To be oppositional is the only goal. NO, NO, NO and Whine, Whine, Whine.
Please break free. Think for yourself and break away from the sheep herd. You can do it.

I found this interesting. Bachmann was the leader on getting the marriage amendment on the ballot.

"Jim Drinkard, an Associated Press (AP) editor who oversees the wire service’s fact-checking work, said, “We had to have a self-imposed Michele Bachmann quota in some of those debates.”

After the session, Drinkard said that there wasn’t an actual numerical quota on Bachmann at the AP. It’s just that if the AP had gone back and vetted all her claims that looked dicey, the result would “overload” the debate story. “Often she was just more prone to statements that just didn’t add up,” said Drinkard."

http://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2012/09/fact-checkers-worry-about-bachmann-overload

lol, really? the republicans are defacing their own signs and throwing rocks through church windows who support the yes vote in an attempt to picture the other side as violent and intollerant? That's an unfounded stretch.

Did republicans also get together in mass and trash the streets of St. Paul and attack riot police when the RNC was in town? Did republicans quit their jobs and join the Occupy Wallstreet movement and make it look like a bunch of angry beggers?

No and no, you can't escape the fact that instead of talking about the facts and logic behind your views you'd rather attack the other side with name calling or worse. I support the right for gays to marry, Government shouldn't tell people (who aren't hurting anyone) what to do. I'm sure the ammendment won't pass anyway.

"That's an unfounded stretch."

I used to be a Republican, and I was close to someone on the "dirty tricks" team. It is not a stretch. Remember Watergate? Breaking into and vandalizing the opposition's headquarters wasn't a "stretch", and it was authorized from the highest level of the Republican party. The Republicans are pros at this kind of counter-counter shenanigan stuff. My friend, who was part of the Young Republicans dirty tricks unit was a sociopath. Lots of sociopaths in the Republican party, and they are put to "good" use.

Polls are showing that the vote will be very, very close on this amendment. It was time to pull out the dirty tricks, and this one is classic Republican Rovian projection.

The post's here are what is typical for all of America, It's "my way or the highway". Everybody has an opinion and is entitled to say so. Agree to disagree and get over it. When we were kids we would put them all in one yard or switch them from lawn to lawn. Now people just as soon punch each other. Learn to get along with one another.
As far as the RNC goes, were you there? All I did was drive by. It was down right scary. It looked like a military take over, cops acting more like Gestapo than cops. And the protesters? Wrecking Private property to make a point? Like I mentioned"my way or the highway".

This is'nt a political issue. It is about what is right or wrong. The evil element of society is playing this up. Many don't care about politics they just want to create chaos. Just jail the hooligans and get on with it!

Edward your example is from over 40 years ago lol.

There are crazies on both sides... but more often than not it's a liberal destroying property and slandering the other side rather than discussing the issue.