Our state legislature needs to stop pushing a "moral" agenda and focus on real issues. Women's rights need to be protected. Abortion is not a real issue nor is contraception. Likewise, protecting bullies in our schools and allowing gays, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students to be bullied on religious grounds is wrong. There should be no excuse for bullying anyone based on anything. Moreover, the "don't say gay" bill is nothing more than a distraction. Teachers never taught homosexuality in our schools. Every single bill our state makes, costs taxpayers thousands of dollars each. This is a waste of our tax dollars. The same money could've been used to attract new business to our state. However, these hateful bills drive away potential new business' that may have once considered to relocate to our state.

Currently in Missouri and across the country, sex offenders are put on a Public Registry for Life that allows anybody to see where they live, work, their car information, etc. Sex Offenders live in fear that their neighbor, employer or anyone else can target them, even when they have served their time and paid for their crime. Their basic civil rights are being abused and they daily face "unusual and cruel punishment" from these laws currently on the books. HB1700 is currently in the MO House of Representatives for a vote soon. It is a law to change who is on the Registry and for how long. The worst and most violent criminals will remain for the longest time. A board consisting of qualified professionals will conduct risk assessments to determine which of the Tier Levels a sex offender is placed on and that will determine how long one is on the Registry.

This petition is directly against the Anti-Vasectomy Act and its author - Rep. Yasmine Neal - House District 75. She states that just like women, men should not be able to voluntarily have a vasectomy, to use as birthcontrol - and just like women - if they are allowed to, it is only for just cause to save a life.

Take the pledge to be a positive force in the world of violence prevention.

I, a citizen of Wake County, oppose Amendment One- the constitutional amendment to ban gay and lesbian couples from ever gaining marriage equality. It would harm hundreds of thousands of children, families, unmarried couples, and seniors.

Gay marriage ! and stop discrimination !

Data aggregators are compiling any and all available data transmitted through our internet, cell phone, and credit card usage - without our informed consent - and then selling this information to large corporations, with the potential to be used against us. This, often inaccurate, information can be sold to insurance companies, marketers, and the like, to profile us, pigeon-hole us, and limit our ability to obtain employment, insurance, credit, or other future opportunities. We need more and better laws to protect Americans' privacy and keep pace with present technologies.

Milwaukee has for the last 5-decades, Kerner Commission (1964) to Federal Reserve/Brookings Institution case study (2008) and frequent reports show "by-design discrimination" of African American, other People of Color and the Work Challenged.

HB 1046 would require drug testing for Colorado Works Program applicants. This bill assumes that a primary cause of poverty is poor character. and that individuals and families needing help are not to be trusted. A similar law in Florida was thrown out in Federal Court in October 2011 because it amounted to unreasonable search and seizure. The judge further chided lawmakers for ignoring an 'overwhelming body of case law.' Costs for the program in Florida were high with no discernible benefit.

On Monday, February 20 Wake County Commissioner Paul Coble forced through a resolution stating that Wake County was in support of Amendment One, even though more than 100 citizens gathered in opposition at the county commissioner meeting. Please sign the petition below to tell Paul Coble that we, the citizens of North Carolina, oppose Amendment One and the harms that it would bring to hundreds of thousands of children, families, unmarried couples, and seniors.

The proposed change to how individuals/organizations register people to vote.

Because constitutional guarattee of religious liberty does not mean a guarantee of religious authority.