Martin O'Malley calls GOP support of Indiana law 'shameful'

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BEDFORD, N.H. —


(Nancy Lane)


“I think it is shameful that presidential candidates in this day and age would try to give cover to a law — that is sweeping across a lot of Republican-governed states — that attempts to give license to discrimination of gay and lesbian people,” O’Malley, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, told reporters after a “Politics and Eggs” breakfast in Bedford, N.H. “It’s wrong. It’s not who we are as a people.’’

In his talk to the breakfast audience, O’Malley said the Indiana law is “reprehensible and counter to everything we stand for as a people.”

He cited Maryland’s passage of same-sex marriage and legislation offering in-state tuition to undocumented students and driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants as contrasts to what he called Republicans’ “exclusive” philosophy.

“We do these things because we know our state is better, our economy is better, our country and our society is better the more fully people participate,” he said.

“They (Republicans) don’t subscribe to that.”


read:http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/03/31/omalley-indiana-religious-freedom-law-new-hampshire/

watch: https://twitter.com/MarcNECN/status/582895650217574400


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.@GovernorOMalley: "I believe that marriage is a human right, not a state right."

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1. K & R. n/t

[MerryBlooms]

2. rec & kick

[hifiguy]

3. O'Malley bears watching.

Liking what I am seeing and hearing from him so far.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. he must strike fear into republicans because

the far right National review just did a hit piece on him

carry on Gov............ I like your style and you piss off the right people

[libdem4life]

5. Yep, warming up to O'Malley. "Human right, not state right" !!!!!

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8. K&R He's right & I apprecaite O'Malley speaking out like Dems. & decent people should

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[elleng]

9. Good to see this.

[HappyMe]

10. k&r

[Eric Stratton]

11. Why don't these guys get to the point?

“It’s wrong. It’s not who we are as a people.’’

America is not defined by a "people" but, rather, a nation founded on a set of ideals. Suggesting that America is a "people" like Jews refer to themselves as a "people" is simply wrong. Americans are identified by their allegiance to a set of ideals framed and identified by the Declaration of Independence and those principles include; Equality, Justice, and Liberty for everyone. The Constitution is the legal framework that was created for achieving those ideals and for "Making a more perfect Union" as Lincoln envisioned and taught in the Gettysburg Address. And, as Lincoln taught and implored in that great invocation; American, true Americans, each day and every generation will rise and renew that dedication to those ideals and only by that effort and dedication will America ever achieve the full measure of its greatness.

Patriotism is to stand in defense of those ideals and to be a good American is to put those American Ideals in front of personal agenda defined by creed, ancestral origin, politics and to push for laws that create a more perfect union always seeking a fuller and more perfect alignment of American practice of extending the enjoyment of those inalienable Rights of Individuals by making more perfect not only the laws but the very social environment where everyone is free to express and enjoy those rights.

One cannot be a Jewish-American or a Christian-American or a Afro-American or a Conservative-American an Irish-American and truly be an American is to simply be American. One cannot put a sectarian or tribal value system before the ideals of America; Equality, Justice, Liberty for all men, and still claim to be American. Once cannot look upon Equality, Justice, and Liberty for all people through a prism of another value system without necessarily distorting the ideals of America itself and distorting the meaning of what it is to be an American.