2014 NE Senate debate: on Civil Rights

Dave Domina: End gender paycheck inequity & all gender favoritism

• Gender favoritism or preference is impermissible and forbidden for all positions except those few, in rare settings, where gender is a criterion for employment.
• Neither gender should be paid more or less than the other for the same work in the same or parallel positions.
• Performance is gender neutral. Compensation must be too.
• The Equal Paycheck Act passed by the United States Senate makes genuine efforts to remedy historical disparities.

Shane Osborn: Government shouldn't redefine marriage

Osborn: Strongly Agree

Ben Sasse: Kids are best raised in a world with one mother & one father

Domina disagreed with Sasse's overall assessment of same-sex marriage. "I am aware of no data to suggest that on a consistent basis that children have a better outcome with a single mother and father living together than children with two fathers or two mothers," he said. He said that the government should address these issues only insofar as they affect taxes. It should stay out of private matters, Domina said.

Ben Sasse: Children are best raised by a father and mother

Domina disagreed, saying it's the responsibility of government to define marriage. He said he's not aware of any studies showing children fare better with a mother and father than with two fathers or single parents.

Dave Domina: Government should stay out of private matters like marriage

Domina disagreed with Sasse's overall assessment of same-sex marriage. "I am aware of no data to suggest that on a consistent basis that children have a better outcome with a single mother and father living together than children with two fathers or two mothers," he said. He said that the government should address these issues only insofar as they affect taxes. It should stay out of private matters, Domina said.

Dave Domina: Feds SHOULD define marriage, but not as one-man-one-woman

Domina disagreed, saying it's the responsibility of government to define marriage, noting that a couple dozen states have legalized same-sex marriage. He said he's not aware of any studies showing children fare better with a mother and father than with two mothers, two fathers or single parents. As for pot, he said the feds need to address the situation where the drug is legal in Colorado but not in neighboring states, while federal law bans the transport of illegal drugs.