Coming soon to Florida: A scared and lonely child denied an adoptive home, some loving couple denied their dream of starting a family -- all in the name of Christianity. Under a bill that just passed the state house, state-funded adoption agencies will be able to deny child placement to single mothers, gay and lesbian couples, or any other family which the agency objects to on the basis of "religious or moral conviction." A few right-wing Christians are calling this "the official beginning of the battle for religious liberty and religious freedom in the state of Florida." But no one who follows Jesus should want to keep children in need away from loving families.

Workers in the United States and around the world unite to renew the 1951 petition "We Charge Genocide" submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations by the Civil Rights Congress and others. The 1951 petition "We Charge Genocide" opposed the genocidal violence towards African-Americans in the United States at that time. This renewal opposes the contemporary genocidal violence towards African-Americans in the United States and seeks relief from the United Nations. The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is found in Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Article II describes two elements of the crime of genocide: 1) the mental element, meaning the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", and 2) the physical element which includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called "genocide." Article III described five punishable forms of the crime of genocide: genocide; conspiracy, incitement, attempt and complicity. The recent police murders of African-Americans in the USA meet the requirements of the legal definition of genocide. We demand that the genocidal violence against African-Americans in the United States end immediately. The police murders of African-Americans in the United States must cease immediately.

My husband is incarcerated at the Michael Unit in Tennessee Colony Texas Region ll. Employees are representatives of the TDCJ and are expected to adhere to the highest standards of conduct while on-duty or off-duty, including adherence to the rules of conduct described in the Listing of Employee General Rules of Conduct and Disciplinary Violations. The Warden's and officers are treating family members and friends of offenders inappropriately and nothing is being done. This needs to stop.

We must protect all people in North Dakota and have people recognize that we are all human no matter who we love.

I believe all people deserve the same rights independent of whom they love or what gender they present as.

Drones open the door to an unparalleled invasion of everyone’s privacy, and create a great potential of false identification. Historically drones are used to commit to acts of war. We are a free people, with rights given to us by birth. We deserve and require that those rights be recognized. We will not be spied on by police drones. We have the right to privacy!

When I wanted to discuss a parking matter with the Chief of Police, It was incredibly difficult to get into the building with so many stairs. The law requires public buildings to be accessible and it is unbelievable that a person in a wheelchair can be denied access to a GOVERNMENT building! A private business owner would've NEVER been able to get away with this.

All citizens deserve equal rights. The citizens of Huntington County should stand up and DEMAND that out legislators vote the will of the people, not the will of special interest groups that fund their campaigns!

New Jack City, The Wire and Scarface did not help their respective cities. More recently, when VH1 released Sorority Sisters, the African-American Sororities acted with such swift action, it resulted in a cancellation of the show. We have to do the same. Portraying our city, our neighborhoods and our residents as violent reinforces bad stereotypes in and around our community. The film will make it more difficult for us to attract high-tech industry, businesses, shops, cafes, gyms and programs for our youth. A movie like this will create a new audience of people that currently do not think of our communities as bad places. We do not need this. Sign the petition to stop the filming of "Chiraq".

My petition is about same-sex marriage that yes, I have been affected by because I have not been able to legally marry the woman I love, the love of my life. I'm not asking for religious entities to perform our weddings but for the right to have one with those who will perform the ceremony. It is not for man to judge. That's God's job, and honestly speaking, no man or woman has a heaven or hell to put us in.

I am a gay man who has been in a committed relationship for seventeen years and would like to marry my partner and have all the rights our Constatution guarantees us.

I have been a Mainer all my life, and I am also a part of the LGBT community. I love my state, and I love the people that are a part of my community. The religious freedom law Sen. David Burns, R-Whiting proposing will allow local businesses to discriminate and refuse service to anyone who is a part of the LGBT community. We have already seen this in our history; denying service to people of different races or religions, and they thought it was okay then. It wasn't then, and it isn't now. According to the Constitution of the United States, Thomas Jefferson wrote that we may "make no law respecting an establishment of religion", meaning that the laws of the church cannot make laws of the government, Federal or State. A law like this is a way of forcing religion on others, and a quick way to negatively affect our economy here in Maine. Businesses and companies such as Apple, NASCAR, Starbucks, Dow, the NBA, the NCAA and many others are pulling right out of Indiana in disagreement with Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act. What would that do to our state? Our economy will suffer a drastic loss, and could be potentially unrecoverable forcing some to move out of the state. This law is morally, legally and even economically not a good decision for this state--our state, or any others. If you don't sign this petition for moral reasons, sign it because you don't want to see our home go into an economic downfall. Please sign this petition to stop Maine's legislators from making "An Act to Enact the Preservation of Religious Freedom Act" exist and active.