The Don't Say Gay bill would ban the discussions of LGBT issues and limit all sexually related instruction to "natural human reproductive science" in kindergarten through 8th grade. This bill will go to the TN. senate educational committee in a few weeks. The bill violates our first amendment rights, sends the wrong message to our kids and could jeopardize their safety!

My petition is about everyone being allowed the same rights when it comes to marriage. The rest of the United States is coming around to marriage equality, so Louisiana should join. Love is Love, no matter if it is in a gay, lesbian, and straight relationship.

Abuse of accessible parking spaces is a growing problem. The use of handicapped parking spaces by individuals who aren't physically challanged is rampant all over the nation, despite the Americans with Disabilities Act and laws in place to stop parking in handicapped spaces so something else has to be done to stop this from happening. These parking spaces are for people who are physically challenged to ensure safe and equal access to goods and services. Physically challenged people have run out of places to park, as their designated accessible parking spaces because they are being taken by fraudulent people. Every state needs to enforce The Citizen Observer Program, it acts as an extra set of eyes and ears to help deputies keep the community safe while patrolling in the Sheriff’s office jurisdiction. The volunteers in this program patrol the community in Sheriff’s Office vehicles and report suspicious activities to deputies and issue traffic citations to motorist who illegally park in accessible parking spaces. Also, RFID transmitters should be enforced that way they are able to communicate with parking signs to authenticate registered handicap drivers. This way when someone with no tag or using a fake one pulls into a accessible parking space, a light will signal, this will stop the abuse of accessible parking spaces and spaces that are needed to lower van lifts. Van Accessible signs must be changed to "Wheelchair Loading Van". These signs and vehicle license tags and placecards, should also be color-cordinated to identify violators easier. Accessible Parking spaces that are showing International Accessible Parking signs on private property where the public is invited to enter and park, should also fall in the same Accessible parking laws as public property. Something else that should be enforced is the requiring of the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue placards with the holder's photo printed on the placard, strict enforcement of qualifications for physically challenged Placecard recipients where the only way that a placecard is issued is if proven to have total and permanent disability, substantially impairs his/her ability to walk, clarify and tighten the types of impairments that make people eligible for the placards and keep the metered free parking. We as a communitity mandate the same Accessible Parking laws in each state to protect the civil rights of people with physical challenges, who have serious mobility impairments needing these Accessible parking accomodations. As individuals with physical challenges, we have serious concerns about the number of Accessible Parking Placards being given out and the decisive factor used for the giving of these permits. A person with a physical challenge requires an accessible parking space because of its size (accessible parking spaces are larger than the standard parking space) and proximity to daily facilities. These accessible spaces provide vital access to community facilities and services, and support the participation of people with physical challenges .

This petition is about building support for amending the Idaho Human Rights Act to include LGBT people. People should sign it because currently LGBT people can be denied housing and employment and be otherwise discriminated against and that's not right.

Extreme lawmakers in the Georgia legislature are pushing a bill designed to intimidate those who would engage in protest activities, such as picketing or sit-ins. This is an effort to silence protesters who are standing up for economic justice. My father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died fighting for economic justice. Before his assassination in 1968, one of the ways he supported striking sanitation workers in Memphis was joining them on the picket line. It’s shocking to me that, 44 years after my father’s death, extreme Georgia legislators are trying to silence today’s peaceful protesters. My father would not back down from this bill and we cannot either.

The new leadership in the NC General Assembly is pushing legislation to make voting harder for working people, senior citizens, people of color, and students. They want to shorten Early Voting, end Same-Day Registration during Early Voting, and require registered voters to show a government photo ID when they vote. Safeguards against voter impersonation are working - we don't need to suppress voter turnout in NC.

H.R. 347 was recently passed by both houses making it a federal offense to "disrupt" an event where a person covered by the secret service is in attendance. This disruption doesn't even have to be located on the actual property, the amendment extends the reach to "or within such proximity to." It extends the scope of situations where our rights to peaceful assembly are already restricted, "is or will be temporarily visiting." We want our freedom of speech! We want our right to peaceably assemble! Don't let our government take those rights away from us. Ask your president to veto H.R. 347. You can read the bill yourself here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr347enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr347enr.pdf Here is the amendment: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr347rh/pdf/BILLS-112hr347rh.pdf And the amended amendment: http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20120227/BILLS-112hr347-SUS.pdf

Stop the pending agreement between Virginia and The Department of Justice. Governor McDonnell has over reached in his move to virtually close all institutional facilities and to privatize the care of the most profoundly intellectually and physically disabled.

Independent voters of Colorado have been denied acess to primaries forever. With the growing # of independents in Colorado, thier voice should be heard in primaries.

The Georgia House of Representatives has proposed HB 981 which will allow license holders to carry concealed weapons into public schools, including universities, among other places. This petition is to support HB 981, and encourage the Georgia House to approve it ASAP. The bill is just an extension of current gun laws to allow anyone over the age of 21 that passes a background check to obtain a license to conceal arms, it does not grant the right to new people, it just extends current rights.

Please advocate for civil unions regardless of gender in Colorado in order to get closer to having the same rights and privileges as married couples.

My petition is about civil rights for all people, regardless of race, creed , color, age and religion. All of a sudden proof is to be provided, and is valid. When one registers to vote proof is provided along with the form, or with the person you are registering with. Why create a problem now. Its very important that citizens are voting. Why should they be discourage with this stupid tactic. Why, because the fear of Pres. Obama being President og these United States again.