“The headline is “Americans being detained.” Their ethnic heritage does not change their nationality which is American. If there is a reason to detain an individual based on intelligence, please, do so and keep us safe. However, detaining people based on ethnicity does not help to secure our nation. ”
“As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, it is hard to oppose something like this but this policy would do more harm than good. The separation of church and State has been getting weaker for quite a while because the government is supporting specific religions over others. Using taxes to punish religion…”
“THE LGBTQ+ community is a suspect class. we do not need a SCOTUS ruling to tell us that. In fact, the current SCOTUS is likely to be a part of the disempowerment of the group and paradoxically solidify the classification. Historical disempowerment and discrimination, immutable trait(s), an insular m…”
“Part of why we don’t do this anymore is the Fox News of our era- we would just be requiring the news to provide coverage of lies and conspiracy theories. When 97% of scientist believe in climate change, why would be require the news to give 50% coverage to conspiracy theorists and religious crackpot…”
“Charging protesters for the cost of the protest would act to oppress protests. The people who need to protest to make their voice heard are not the wealthy- they can speak through lobbying and donations. We would just be charging the middle and lower class for their right to “free” speech. Protests …”
“My religion believes in same sex marriage. My religion allows and evens encourages marriage, regardless of gender. When someone says their religion prohibits same sex marriage- fine. Great. Your religion is biased and I don’t respect it, but it’s a choice. However, when the government chooses to all…”
“As the EEOC has argued many times before, discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community in business is gender based discrimination. The discrimination is entrenched in ideas of how individuals should behave based on their gender regardless of whether it is who they are sexual attracted to or how they …”
“I don’t recall the last time in our history that we had an actual political debate. High schoolers are better at actually debating. I wish we would call these something else until we’re down to the last two candidates and it’s more debate-like. The positives: the sound bites weren’t bad, some of the…”
“The argument that children should be born to children in wedlock to support child marriage is reprehensible and disgusting. Encouraging children to get married is not a goal, it’s a systematic rape of childhood. The government is ignoring the issue of child pregnancy by wrapping it in a pretty bow a…”