OBAMA-
HE IS
MORE PRO-LIFE THAN YOU UNDERSTAND
The First Presidential Bill signed was not some act repealing all the abortion restrictions as the conservatives hysterically postured prior to the election, putting up Palin to drum up the hysterical nonsense to appeal to the mindless republican base. Your cartoon character assassination attempt to sqewer Obama as a baby-killing monster didn't work. You just look ridiculous.
The First Presidential Bill signed was one that will save more babies from abortion than anyone realizes and solidify family life for half the country.
Yesterday, if you missed it while others of us sat at our desks nearly crying in gratitude
OBAMA signed a bill which ameneded the Civil Rights Act. If you are not a lawyer you might not get how important this little act of clarifying the reach of the 180 day rule for reporting discrimination actually is, but trust me- it is a very big deal.
Ms. Ledbetter, who no doubt spent a career working at a Goodyear rubber tire facility because of the deep psychic wage (NOT) sued and was awarded originally several million dollars for a career wherein she was systematically discriminated against over years- almost a lifetime, by getting a fraction of what the other good old boys got paid-just for being a woman. Goodyear took it to the Supreme Court and won a shallow unjust victory wherein the Court restricted discrimination claims to only those within the 180 day reporting period - and not those prior to those 180 days- imposing a rigid statute of limitations interpretation that was never intended by Congress in the first place. The effect of the new law is that the discrimination experienced prior to the 180 days may be tacked on with the last act occuring within 180 days such that all of this is now actionable-and compensable. I have yet to read the whole act in full but will soon-more later. That is the gist as I understand it.
Why is this more Pro-Life than a million people marching on the mall carrying signs saying "we choose life?"- Because this makes life more possible. It means companies may not, under threat of serious monetary damage, engage in institutional discrimination against women- just because they are women. (or blacks just because they are black, or hispanics just because they are hispanic, etc...) This is faith in action not just a crowd shouting at tilted windmills.
Half the country is divorced. Many women are out there single on their own. Many women are raising children on their own or helping other women who have to raise them on their own. It is unjust and unjustifiable for women to make a penny less than a man for doing exactly the same job just because the guy is presumed to have greater financial responsibility (or a worse golf habbit). I had a widowed grandmother lose her husband and go back to work and eventually got a graduate degree at age 50 or so. I have a widowed godmother/aunt who lost her husband with two small children when she was in her early 40s. None of that was because they were sinful or bad women. They needed every penny that their labor could earn while raising children.
Obama struck a beautiful tone with this first Bill signing. He had bipartisan support of the Senator from Maine and other women- because this is a non-partisan issue. It is a decency and fairness issue.
What could Alito possibly have been thinking when making that Ledbetter ruling? That the slick class action plaintiff's attorneys were going to ruin these good solid hardworking companies? Ridiculous- the only companies who would be ruined would be those ignorant enough to institutionalize discrimination policies that they implemented over years- and believe me- some of them should be whacked hard on their bottom line.
I love this President. This is a man who is obviously so brilliant and so secure in his manhood that a strong professional woman does not threaten him in the slightest --he views it as an asset to him. He doesn't need to cut her or any woman off at the knees, because he understands that the stronger you empower women, the stronger you empower children, and the stronger you empower families, and the stronger a Life Force are you. Obama understands that we have to have a society where we RESPECT women, rather than undermining their dignity.
A very large factor in women's psychology for those who have had abortions is a feeling of loss of complete power and control after the male who got them pregnant emotionally abandoned or betrayed them. This is a respect and dignity issue. If you address that, you will stop a multitude of abortions. Instead of teaching men how not to commit emotional or physical adultery with women, men continue to exploit and use them in myriad ways- even men of the cloth.
Emotional adultery is as deep a betrayal as a physical one.
Respect and Dignity of women translates directly into Life- more life, new life and fuller life.
When the Republicans finally get how far off the ranch they are on this, then we will see a country where Life is truly flourishing in abundance.
THANK YOU PRESIDENT OBAMA- THANK YOU LILLY LEDBETTER.
HE IS
MORE PRO-LIFE THAN YOU UNDERSTAND
The First Presidential Bill signed was not some act repealing all the abortion restrictions as the conservatives hysterically postured prior to the election, putting up Palin to drum up the hysterical nonsense to appeal to the mindless republican base. Your cartoon character assassination attempt to sqewer Obama as a baby-killing monster didn't work. You just look ridiculous.
The First Presidential Bill signed was one that will save more babies from abortion than anyone realizes and solidify family life for half the country.
Yesterday, if you missed it while others of us sat at our desks nearly crying in gratitude
OBAMA signed a bill which ameneded the Civil Rights Act. If you are not a lawyer you might not get how important this little act of clarifying the reach of the 180 day rule for reporting discrimination actually is, but trust me- it is a very big deal.
Ms. Ledbetter, who no doubt spent a career working at a Goodyear rubber tire facility because of the deep psychic wage (NOT) sued and was awarded originally several million dollars for a career wherein she was systematically discriminated against over years- almost a lifetime, by getting a fraction of what the other good old boys got paid-just for being a woman. Goodyear took it to the Supreme Court and won a shallow unjust victory wherein the Court restricted discrimination claims to only those within the 180 day reporting period - and not those prior to those 180 days- imposing a rigid statute of limitations interpretation that was never intended by Congress in the first place. The effect of the new law is that the discrimination experienced prior to the 180 days may be tacked on with the last act occuring within 180 days such that all of this is now actionable-and compensable. I have yet to read the whole act in full but will soon-more later. That is the gist as I understand it.
Why is this more Pro-Life than a million people marching on the mall carrying signs saying "we choose life?"- Because this makes life more possible. It means companies may not, under threat of serious monetary damage, engage in institutional discrimination against women- just because they are women. (or blacks just because they are black, or hispanics just because they are hispanic, etc...) This is faith in action not just a crowd shouting at tilted windmills.
Half the country is divorced. Many women are out there single on their own. Many women are raising children on their own or helping other women who have to raise them on their own. It is unjust and unjustifiable for women to make a penny less than a man for doing exactly the same job just because the guy is presumed to have greater financial responsibility (or a worse golf habbit). I had a widowed grandmother lose her husband and go back to work and eventually got a graduate degree at age 50 or so. I have a widowed godmother/aunt who lost her husband with two small children when she was in her early 40s. None of that was because they were sinful or bad women. They needed every penny that their labor could earn while raising children.
Obama struck a beautiful tone with this first Bill signing. He had bipartisan support of the Senator from Maine and other women- because this is a non-partisan issue. It is a decency and fairness issue.
What could Alito possibly have been thinking when making that Ledbetter ruling? That the slick class action plaintiff's attorneys were going to ruin these good solid hardworking companies? Ridiculous- the only companies who would be ruined would be those ignorant enough to institutionalize discrimination policies that they implemented over years- and believe me- some of them should be whacked hard on their bottom line.
I love this President. This is a man who is obviously so brilliant and so secure in his manhood that a strong professional woman does not threaten him in the slightest --he views it as an asset to him. He doesn't need to cut her or any woman off at the knees, because he understands that the stronger you empower women, the stronger you empower children, and the stronger you empower families, and the stronger a Life Force are you. Obama understands that we have to have a society where we RESPECT women, rather than undermining their dignity.
A very large factor in women's psychology for those who have had abortions is a feeling of loss of complete power and control after the male who got them pregnant emotionally abandoned or betrayed them. This is a respect and dignity issue. If you address that, you will stop a multitude of abortions. Instead of teaching men how not to commit emotional or physical adultery with women, men continue to exploit and use them in myriad ways- even men of the cloth.
Emotional adultery is as deep a betrayal as a physical one.
Respect and Dignity of women translates directly into Life- more life, new life and fuller life.
When the Republicans finally get how far off the ranch they are on this, then we will see a country where Life is truly flourishing in abundance.
THANK YOU PRESIDENT OBAMA- THANK YOU LILLY LEDBETTER.
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