Our motto "Virginia is for Lovers" may be true, but the fine print reads "some restrictions apply." The Federal Equal Rights Amendment recognizes the injustice of denying same-sex marriage, but each state has to say NO to discrimination and YES to EQUAL RIGHTS for Everybody! Abraham Lincoln said, "The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me." We all KNOW this is The Just thing to do! Be Brave. Let us lead the way in the South to allow same-sex marriage.

states are spending a lot of money to surpress voter fraud. considering that voter fraud is about .000003% and that only 86 convictions have been made since 2004, it seems it's a move to take away voters rights more than anything else.

I watch 60 Minites on CBS TV and it is shocking in a Democratic society that unemployed workers are discriminated against in this recession. The banks have caused this delima. Can we take a stand against employers who placed adds on the internet and news papers stating that "the unemployed need not apply. I am calling on the President and the Secratary of Labor and the NAACP and all of us to take action

I believe we have a one man one vote democracy. Therefore I believe all people that served there debt to scoiety upon completion of there prison term , should have the right to vote.

It is time for the US to regulate the practices of debt collectors. In todays economic climate many good, hardworking people find themselves deep in financial trouble as a result of things they cannot control. Jobs that have been lost or have been replaced with jobs that do not pay a living a wage, reduced or no benefits, rapidly escalating prices of items essential to survival, there are so many people who have worked all their lives and faithfully paid their debts, but now find themselves unable to keep up payments they were able to afford just a few years ago. The resulting feeding frenzy by debt collectors is unprecedented in its savagery. These collectors literally thumb their noses at any notion of fair debt collection practices, and their activities are no less than unlawful harassment of people already pushed to the limit theri circumstances. It is time for the US government to regulate the collection industry and to require debt collectors to treat those who are genuinely trying to pay their debts with the respect that they have earned. Just because people are struggling should not mean they no longer have rights. Yes there is a federal debt collections practises act, but far too many collectors, especially bank employees ignore these practices and laugh at the idea that they have any limits to what they can do.Many companies do not even require their collectors to know there are limits at all.

House Bill (H.4549) I am oppose to this bill; please DO NOT pass!

Making sure government does not infringe on religious freedom.

The recent US Supreme Court decision allowing freedom of speech rights to Corporations was not what the 1st Amendment intended. Corporations are not people, they do not vote, they do not have representatives in Congress, they do not need the US Constitution to provide rights to them. This amendment would clarify that the first amendment rights to free speech only apply to living human beings.

When President Obama ran for President in 2008, he said he would leave Medical Marijuana regulation in the hands of the states that have legalized it. Now the DOJ and the IRS are conducting a war on the medical marijuana industry without any explanation. Marin County's oldest dispensary was forced to close when the DOJ threatened their landlord with seizure of the property. Please stand with the majority of Americans who want medical marijuana legalized!

In his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson wrote "... I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." Unfortunately while our government was designed to safeguard itself from scaling this 'wall of separation', our politicians individually not only regularly and blatantly climb over the wall, but are making increasingly daring attempts to drag the rest of us over as well. Our forefathers, with amazing clarity and will, saw the inherent dangers of Theocracy. Many of our current politicians ignore those same dangers by using religious materials, speech and symbolism in their campaigns and while in office.

In 2008, President Obama signed the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and that's where it has ended. The Convention sits at the White House and has not been passed on to the U.S. Senate for ratification.

This petition would be to insure that so many Americans are not disenfranchised by all the new bills passed at the State level to reduce the chances for Democrats to win. (Students, the poor, the less-educated, the too busy , those who cannot take time off...) This will reduce voter suppression in many swing states.