The Minnesota Family Council, a Christian conservative group behind the push to put an anti-gay marriage amendment on the ballot in 2012 is one of several groups who have filed suit to block a vote by child care workers to unionize. The group opposes allowing workers to vote as employees, though during the run up to the amendment, voting was their mantra.

MFC spent 2010 and the first part of 2011 urging the Minnesota Legislature to allow people to vote on banning gay marriage.

“Voting is our most fundamental civil right in this nation,” MFC spokesperson Churck Darrell said back in April. “and so allowing the people to decide on marriage is probably the best way to deal with this now.”

The group sent numerous emails touting voting as a civil right.

This bill allows the people to decide on marriage, not the legislature or the courts. Legislators are not being asked to decide if marriage is the union of a man and a woman. They are simply being asked to let the people decide the marriage issue.

The right to vote is a very important civil right.

The Family Council even accused LGBT people of attempting to block the “right to vote.”

Supporters of same-sex marriage are coming in from across the country to block your right to vote on marriage. We need to see you today.

Contact your home school group. Come today or even Monday. Whatever it takes. Make signs big, bright, bold signs encouraging legislators to “Let the people vote!”

But on Monday, the Minnesota Family Council filed suit to block state-funded child care workers from voting to engage in collective bargaining. The vote is completely voluntary. No child care worker would be forced to join a union.

Family Council president Tom Prichard recently wrote that the group opposes the vote because unions are greedy.

“Why do they want the power to just meet? I’m told it will mean lots of money added to their coffers,” he wrote. “Who would vote? Those receiving government monies. Another example of government strings attached to receiving tax dollars.”