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Same-sex & interracial marriage is a distraction
Vance on a Bill to Protect Marriage Equality and Interracial Marriage: "The bill would require federal recognition of all marriages as long as they were deemed valid in the state they were performed. It would also repeal the Defense of Marriage Act,
which defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Vance characterized the bill as a solution in search of a problem. 'You have a sky-high inflation crisis, and we're arguing about rights that have already been granted by the
Supreme Court,' he said. 'It seems like a bizarre distraction for a country that actually has much, much deeper and more serious crises.'" [Columbus Dispatch, 8/2/22]AUDIO: On the Bill Cunningham Show, "VANCE: Well, it is one of these issues that I
just don't think is a live issue. I am a Christian, actually a Catholic convert. I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, but I don't think the gay marriage issue is alive right now." [Bill Cunningham Show via Soundcloud, 6/27/22]
Source: 2024 Trump Research Book
, Aug 2, 2024
Criminalize gender-affirming care of a minor
In 2023, Senator JD Vance and Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia introduced companion bills that punish anyone involved in the gender-affirming care of a minor. Greene's bill would permit people who receive gender-affirming
care as minors to bring a lawsuit against anyone who performed hormone treatments or surgeries on them. Vance's bill would go further, making the gender-affirming care of a minor a federal crime punishable by up to 12 years in prison.
Source: The Marshall Project on 2024 Veepstakes
, Jul 17, 2024
Passport Sanity Act: There are only two genders
Vance introduced the Passport Sanity Act, a bill to ban "X" gender markers on US passports, an option that the State Department rolled out in April 2022. The bill was also never taken up in committee. "The State Department is wasting its time and
your tax dollars pushing far-left gender ideology," Vance said. "There are only two genders--passports issued by the US government should recognize that simple fact. I am proud to introduce this bill to restore some sanity in our federal bureaucracy."
Source: NBC News on 2024 Veepstakes
, Jul 16, 2024
Enforce Court decision ending college affirmative action
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court struck a blow against institutionally-driven racism in the United States. In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College, the Supreme Court found [that colleges with affirmative action admissions] were
impermissibly discriminating against certain applicants based exclusively on their race.While the Court took a big step forward in eliminating racial discrimination in admissions, more work remains to be done. In his remarks in the wake of the
landmark decision, President Biden proposed "a new standard, where colleges take into account the adversity a student has overcome, including racial discrimination that individuals have faced in their own lives."
We call upon the Biden administration
to embrace the Court's holdings: racial discrimination [does not] have any place in schooling. The American people deserve no less than an Executive Branch committed to enforcing the law equally to all people without concern for their race.
Source: Ernst.Senate.Gov press release:for 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Sep 12, 2023
OpEd: Mocked AOC for Native American phrase for non-binary
The 37-year-old bigot shared a tweet by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about trans, two-spirit, and non-binary people, along with the caption: "I'm sorry but what the hell is two-spirit? Would love if progressives just stopped inventing words."
Had J.D. bothered to simply Google "two-spirit" rather than tweet his ignorance about it, he would have quickly learned that it's not something progressives invented and is actually a term used in many Indigenous North American communities.
Source: Queerty e-zine on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Sep 9, 2021
Cultural isolation makes whites susceptible to xenophobia
[Before entering the Senate race], Vance argued that an element of cultural isolation and "ugly racial attitudes" among poorer, white voters made them more susceptible to xenophobic appeals from politicians like Trump. Vance discussed racism and
xenophobia among pro-Trump voters in a [more conciliatory] way: "My biggest fear with Trump is that, because of the failures of the Republican and Democratic elites, the bar for the white working class is too low," he said in 2016. "They're willing to
listen to Trump about rapist immigrants and banning all Muslims because other parts of his message are clearly legitimate. A lot of people think Trump is the first to appeal to the racism and xenophobia that were already there, but I think he's making
the problem worse."Asked about his shifting rhetoric on race, the Vance campaign replied, "The establishment media loves to inject race into every conversation, but voters aren't dumb, and that's exactly why trust in the media is at a record low."
Source: Cleveland Plain-Dealer on 2024 Veepstakes
, Jul 18, 2021
Generals should read less about white rage, whatever that is
He lashed out at Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for defending the study of critical race theory. "I personally would like American generals to read less about 'white rage' (whatever that is) and more about 'not losing
wars,'" he wrote. He railed against critical race theory, the academic term that's meant to recognize how systemic racism is inherent in American life and that the political right has turned into a signature issue.
Source: NBC News on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jul 1, 2021
Black Lives Matter movement destroyed many towns and cities
The Ford Foundation has $14 billion under management. They're investing in Critical Race Theory, they're investing in racial division all across our country, and they're invested in all of the progressive social causes of the moment. They are one of the
Source: Esquire magazine on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jun 4, 2021
Segregated neighborhoods invisible to white residents
As a kid, I sorted Middletown into three basic geographic regions. First, the area surrounding the high school. The "rich" kids lived here. Large homes mixed comfortably with well-kept parks and office complexes. If your dad was a doctor, he almost
certainly owned a home or had an office here, if not both. Next, the really poor kids lived near Armco, where even the nice homes had been converted into multi-family apartment units. I didn't know until recently that this neighborhood was actually
two neighborhoods--one inhabited by Middletown's working class black population, the other by its poorest white population. Middletown's few housing projects stood there.
Then there was the area where we lived--mostly single-family homes, with
abandoned warehouses & factories within walking distance. Looking back, I don't know if the "really poor" areas and my block were any different, or whether these divisions were the constructs of a mind that didn't want to believe it was really poor.
Source: Hillbilly Elegy, by Sen. JD Vance, p. 48-49
, May 25, 2017
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