Home /
Poll /
Who would you like to see become the next Republican senator to support marriage equality?
Who would you like to see become the next Republican senator to support marriage equality?
Take our newest poll!
By Metro Weekly Contributor
on
April 3, 2013
Two sitting Democratic congressmen came out publicly against allowing transgender females to compete on women's sports teams.
This continues an alarming trend of people on the political Left blaming LGBTQ visibility as one of the reasons for Republican victories in this year's elections.
Following Donald Trump's win in the presidential race and the start of post-election analyses to determine why most voters shifted heavily away from the Democratic party, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) told The New York Times that the party "have to stop pandering to the far left."
Last week, New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law prohibiting school boards from arbitrarily banning books based on their content, setting into place a process for dealing with potentially controversial works in school libraries.
Under the "Freedom to Read Act," the state Commissioner of Education and State Librarian are tasked with creating "model policies" that will serve as an example of how library materials are curated or removed, and how any challenges will be evaluated.
The law requires local school boards and governing bodies of public libraries to establish their own individual policies -- preferably based on the model policies -- for curating and removing library materials, including a process for determining whether a challenged book may remain in the library's collection.
Ohio has passed a bill prohibiting schools from allowing transgender students to use bathroom facilities that match their gender identity.
The "Protect All Students Act" sailed through the Ohio State Senate on November 13 by a 24-7 party-line vote.
The bill's House counterpart was passed by the House of Representatives in June.
The bill now heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who has 10 days to sign it into law or veto it.
DeWine has said he's inclined to sign the monstrous bill, but wishes to conduct a legal review first to determine whether it will withstand scrutiny, according to The Associated Press.
