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CLOSING ARGUMENTS: MARRIAGE DEBATE

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On stage, MPR News host Kerri Miller moderates a debate among four guests.

Pro amendment: Rev. Jerry McAfee of New Salem Missionary Baptist Church, and Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage.

Anti amendment: Bishop Gene Robinson, the nation's first openly gay Episcopal bishop, and Sarah C. Walker, COO of 180 Degrees and Minnesotans United for All Families board member.

On this blog, Michael Olson from MPR News will be joined by Autumn Leva, from Minnesotans for Marriage, who will argue for the amendment; and Jake Loesch, from Minnesotans United for All Families, who will argue against the amendment.