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Senate Committee Pushes Forward Discriminatory Amendment
‘This shameful election-year ploy puts the Senate one step closer to a vote that threatens to write discrimination into the U.S. Constitution,’ said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
Senator Frist and Friends Pursue Thinly Veiled Attempt to Distract Voters with Discrimination
‘Senator Frist and his right-wing allies can’t credibly campaign for re-election on real solutions to America’s real problems, because they have no solutions and they created the problems. Instead, Frist and his right-wing friends are playing politics with the Constitution and bashing a single group of Americans. That’s not an agenda any American is talking about at the gas pump, the emergency room or veterans’ hospital. It’s time for Senator Frist to listen to Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, John Danforth and other Republican leaders and put the American people ahead of his discriminatory politics,’ said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
Bush Bows to Extremist Pressure and Schedules Press Conference on Marriage Amendment
It’s a national disgrace that President Bush has yet again bowed to the far-right extremists,’ said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
President Bush’s Radio Address Makes Discriminatory Politics His Priority
'President Roosevelt started these radio addresses to unite Americans and President Bush is using them as a tool to divide us as a nation,' said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
As President Caves to Far Right Wing, Working Americans Lobby Senate in Opposition
'Surrounded by a group of extremists, President Bush showed today how enormously out-of-touch this administration is with the rest of America,' said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
Senator Kennedy, Representative Lewis and Other Civil Rights Leaders Speak Out Against Federal Marriage Amendment
'It is a real threat to millions of Americans when the Republican leadership stands on the Senate floor and gives license to treat gay and lesbian Americans as second-class citizens,' said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.