Why have you declined to sign the Violence Against Women Act?
Trololololing Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and all the conservative lobbyists in the room with my liberal question.
I bet he expected to see a bunch of high schoolers and middle schoolers, take some pictures with them, and move on. That’s what happened. But I bet he didn’t expect one of those high schoolers to put him on the spot.
Anyways, liberal or conservative, you have to give him kudos for being able to answer so quickly like that.
Asked Ted Cruz (R-TX) why he declined the Violence Against Women Act.
Grossly summarized, he believes it is a state issue.
I’ll post the video later.
>Obama does something
>SOCIALIST FASCIST COMMUNIST MARXIST DEVIL OBAMA DOES SOMETHING AND HURTS OUR FREEDOMS
fox news general
You know, seeing all those pictures on my wall all the time ticked me off.
But when I see anti-abortion photos on my wall, you’ve crossed the line.
Thank you tumblr for understanding abortion is a women’s rights issue.
Women’s Rights & Santorum
This man makes me proud to be American and gives Maryland a good image.
From the Huffington Post:
During the debate in Maryland’s House, I joined same-sex marriage supporters outside of the chambers who were anxiously awaiting the vote. I met two moms and their 4-year-old son Will. After standing for hours, Will was tired and seemed a bit uninterested. I could only imagine how hard it would be to understand the complex discussions as a 4-year-old.
But the next day I saw a photo of Will and his family taken right after the House voted in support of marriage equality. His little face was lit up with joy, and he was cheering as his moms hugged him with the love that only a mother can provide. Will may not have understood the debates, but his smile after the vote proved one very important thing: even a 4-year-old knows the value of human dignity.
Yesterday was a day for Maryland’s children. It was a day for human dignity. After years of hard work, we signed a bill into law that protects individual civil marriage rights and religious freedom equally. Yesterday, we came together as One Maryland and showed that there is more that unites us than divides us.
Our efforts were in essence about the dignity of every child’s home. All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law.
Religious freedom was the very reason for our state’s founding. And at the heart of religious freedom is respect for the freedom of individual conscience.
We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.
That’s why we joined together — as clergy and faith-based leaders, as community activists and civil rights leaders, as volunteers, as legislators, and as citizens — and passed a bill that provides equal protection under the law for every individual, and the free exercise of religion without government interference.
The common thread running through our efforts together in Maryland is the thread of human dignity: the dignity of work, the dignity of faith, the dignity of family, the dignity of every individual, the dignity of a free people who, at the end of the day, all want the same thing for our children.
We are One Maryland.
From the Guardian: ”The actor — who is straight — also used the interview to call for gay marriage, relationship education in schools that would cover both gay and straight relationships, and attacked some of the US Republican presidential candidates.
Radcliffe said that he wished more educational establishments, especially in the US, were not in thrall to religion, stating: “I’m not religious, I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. We need sex education in schools.
He went on to say that he has been “disgusted, amazed, stunned” by candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination, such as Rick Santorum or Michele Bachmann, who have been openly hostile to gay rights.
“But they disgusted me less than candidates like Rick Perry, who made that ridiculous advert wearing ‘the Brokeback jacket’, and I think pretend to be homophobic just to win votes.” .
Asked if he wished that Barack Obama would publicly back gay marriage, he replied: “Yes, I do, but can he really? Of course he’s in favour of it, but he has to be careful about saying so. I’d rather have someone like him in the White House than the alternative.”
I’ve censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet—a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit: http://americancensorship.org/posts/32666/uncensor
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