In recent months same-sex marriage activists have rounded up a host of clergy, labor unions, legislators, legal experts, elders, mental health professionals and kids of gay parents to speak out against a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.
And on March 22, they rolled out the "tough guy" contingent: former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura and State Auditor A. Joseph DeNucci, a former Golden Gloves champ.
His days as a bald-pated, boa-wearing body slammer behind him, the 6'4" Ventura attended the press conference clad in jeans, a T-shirt and sneakers. He dismissed the claims of amendment proponents who say marriage needs protection.
"Now, if it's the defense of something, that means it's under attack," he said. "And I'm trying to figure out how - my wife, the former first lady of Minnesota, and I have been married now for 28 years - how is my marriage under attack if two gays or lesbians down the street want to make a lifelong commitment to themselves? I don't get that
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