January 23rd
Olivia Martin
As Attourney General, it's not only your job to enforce the law but also to protect people and have a sense of justice in such a high position in our country. Jeff Sessions, who may very well become the next one, has voted against the many bills this past year over protection of the LGBTQ+ community. These past 8 years, so much groundwork has been laid to protect minorities from discrimination and violence, but Sessions looks for ways to undermine that.
Even when 16% of our own state and 14% of the whole country is living in poverty, people choose to encourage bigotry and sexism as more important issues are growing. Jeff Sessions, possibly the next attorney general, is a man who chooses to make the most vulnerable people even more so, and even more powerless. He doesn't actually believe that LGBT people or women experience any sort of discrimination. “I’m not sure women or people with different sexual orientations face that kind of discrimination,” Sessions said. “I just don’t see it.” People who hold power in our government, or any power at all, shouldn't be so close-minded and unwilling to give minorities basic human rights.
http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/1/18/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-would-threaten-lgbt-protections
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