Civil Rights
Position: America must provide equal opportunity to all, and strongly affirm the separation of Church and State as a cornerstone of our democracy. This requires protection against discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, physical ability, sexual orientation, and gender identification. We call on the Democratic Party to: - Strongly support Affirmative Action as a way of helping to ensure that all individuals in our society have an equal opportunity to succeed.
- Guarantee women's agency for their own bodies by repealing the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act," and the partial-birth abortion bill, and providing for universal access to safe, legal abortion, birth control, and sex education.
- Amend the Americans with Disability Act to ensure the coverage that was intended, prior to restrictive rulings.
- Fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
- Legislate Equal Pay for Equal Work.
- Prohibit public funding of faith-based charities and schools.
- Repeal state and federal "Defense of Marriage" Acts.
- Provide "civil unions" for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Until the establishment of civil union as the convention for state recognition of all couples, and to the extent that the possession of a "marriage" or a marriage license is synonymous with advantage, no couple should be denied access to license for marriage or recognition of their marital status, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identification. We firmly oppose any Constitutional Amendment denying the right of same-sex marriage.
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From:
Dwight
on March 5, 2006 at 07:47 PM
Should we add a plank to support civil rights in an active and vigorous manner in matters of international trade?
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From:
Antje Lewis
on April 9, 2005 at 03:38 PM
Ad "Provide 'civil unions' for all": yes, INCLUDING IMMIGRATION RIGHTS for gay and lesbian family members: partners and children, whether legally adopted or not. Restrictive immigration laws all over the world tear gay and lesbian families apart when visas become unsolvable existential problems.
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From:
Martin Daniels
on April 21, 2004 at 10:47 AM
Here is a sample of a resolution we are having some success with passing around our different local communities and interest groups. Thanks for your consideration. Martin Daniels, Everett 37
RESOLUTION: Support of Religious Tolerance and Diversity:
Whereas, we understand our country
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From:
Dick Baldwin
on January 4, 2005 at 12:35 AM
In 1967 Martin Luther King realized that civil rights had been exhausted, that it was time to step beyond the limits of the Constitution to imagine and work for broader human rights. Civil rights, after all, are citizens' rights the creation of government. They should not be confused with those gran
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Alan Bean
on February 7, 2005 at 06:40 PM
Most of this page consists of "hell no," responses to popular Republican initiatives. Opposing conservative ideas without rooting a response in progressive values merely reinforces the conservative agenda. There are no real frames here, just position statements. And we progressive love our positi
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From:
Justin
on July 22, 2004 at 04:05 PM
reinstate quotas to make sure colleges and workplaces are perfectly representative
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on December 18, 2007 at 02:11 PM
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