2019-20 GA special Senate race: on Civil Rights
Doug Collins:
Against Equality Act (discrimination by sexual orientation)
Q: Protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation?Doug Collins: No. Voted against Equality Act. Argued that the bill would harm children and set back women's gains.
Kelly Loeffler: Not if it interferes with religious faith. "People
of faith should be protected."
Raphael Warnock: Yes. Will "protect members of the LGBTQ+ community from housing, financial, and employment discrimination."
Source: CampusElect on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Nov 3, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Allow discrimination against LGBTQ for religious reasons
Q: Protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation?Kelly Loeffler: Not if it interferes with religious faith. "People of faith should be protected."
Raphael Warnock: Yes. Will "protect members of the LGBTQ+ community from housing, financial, and employment discrimination."
Source: CampusElect on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Nov 3, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
Protect LGBTQ+ from housing, financial, job discrimination
Q: Protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation?Raphael Warnock: Yes. Will "protect members of the LGBTQ+ community from housing, financial, and employment discrimination."
Kelly Loeffler: Not if it interferes with religious faith. "People of faith should be protected."
Source: CampusElect on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Nov 3, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
Fraud almost nonexistent; really about voter suppression
For William Barr, the top cop in our country, to somehow suggest that vote by mail leads to fraud is wrong on its face. But it's part of what we've seen with the Republicans as we've dealt with this whole issue of voter suppression. They've used the
language of voter fraud. Everybody knows that voter fraud through voter ID, for example, is almost nonexistent. It's really a way of trying to suppress the vote. But it won't work. We're pushing back here in Georgia.
Source: Democracy Now on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Jul 29, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Black Lives Matter is "anti-Semitic" and anti-family
"[Black Lives Matter] is a very divisive organization based on Marxist principles," Loeffler told Fox News's Laura Ingraham. "This is an organization that seeks to destroy the American principles and I had to draw the line." Loeffler also called the
Black Lives Matter group "anti-Semitic" and claimed that the group is against the "nuclear family." Loeffler responded that "[t]here's no room in this country for racism, but this isn't what the Black Lives Matter political organization is about."
Source: The Hill e-zine on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Jul 9, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Anger over Floyd murder justifiable; destruction is not
"In the wake of George Floyd's tragic death, many Americans are rightfully angered and in pain," said Loeffler. "While our anger and grief are intense and justifiable, the destruction we have seen across the country is not. Last night, we saw this in
Atlanta, which has a long history of peaceful protests. Americans have a Constitutional right to speak out and peacefully assemble, but that's not what we saw last night."
Source: WSB-TV-2-Atlanta on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
May 30, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
Nexus of taken a wrecking ball to African Americans
The time is now to build a health care system that expands affordable access for all, and places care for the most marginalized among us at the center. We need leaders who will be busy doing everything they can to fight not just this global pandemic,
but the disparities in our health care system that exacerbated it. Our failure to address the nexus of income inequality, health care inequality, and racial inequality has put everyone at risk, but has taken a wrecking ball to African Americans.
Source: American Independent on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Apr 14, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Supports religious liberty policy seen as discriminatory
Loeffler isn't shy about her belief that legislation should be in place to protect one's ability "to act according to our religious beliefs. I believe that people of faith should be free to make statements without fear of persecution."
Her comments represent an effort to distance herself from the team she owns. The Atlanta Dream joined other Georgia businesses who view religious liberty policy as an excuse to legally discriminate against LGBTQ people.
Source: OutSports.com on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Dec 20, 2019
Derrick Grayson:
Government should be involved in marriage, civil unions
I'm Christian and I follow marriage as prescribed by the Bible. Government has no business in marriage. States should abandon the license requirement. Marriage is a civil issue, a private contract and should be addressed as such. Christian churches,
if they desire not to, should not be forced to perform gay weddings. I ascribe to the Judeo/Christian definition of marriage, a union between a man and a woman. All others I view as civil unions and are also not the business of the government.
Source: 2019-20 Georgia Senate campaign website GraysonForGA.com
Nov 22, 2019
Matt Lieberman:
Supports same-day voter registration & Election Day holiday
As a businessman and former teacher, Lieberman is running on a left-of-center domestic platform, with voting rights as a main cause, given Georgia's recent history.
He said he would support national legislation to ensure same-day voter registration and making Election Day a national holiday.
Source: Times of Israel on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Nov 15, 2019
Matt Lieberman:
Concerned with "problems" in voting
In his campaign announcement video, he tied the controversial 2000 Florida recount to Stacey Abrams's defeat in the 2018 Georgia governor's race, one that Abrams has claimed was stolen. Lieberman has declined to go that far, telling
JewishInsider.com, "I think there were enough problems that were identified in the election to make a reasonable person not just worried but frustrated that it wasn't run in a better way with fewer problems."
Source: JewishInsider.com on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Oct 24, 2019
Matt Lieberman:
We need a Voting Rights Act for the 21st century
In 2000 I watched as the Supreme Court stole the election and changed the course of history. We need a Voting Rights Act for the 21st century,'"
Lieberman says in his announcement video referencing the Florida recount battle that ensued following the 2000 presidential election in which his father was on the ticket.
Source: CNN.com coverage of 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Oct 3, 2019
Tom Price:
Against LGBT rights, same-sex marriage
Price has spent his career opposing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, rights. He's voted for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, voted against protecting LGBT people from employment discrimination, and indicated he
agreed with a false claim that LGBT rights legislation would have a negative effect on "medical health."
Source: AmericanProgress.org on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Jan 18, 2017
Tom Price:
Would allow LGBT discrimination under civil rights laws
Price is a co-sponsor of the First Amendment Defense Act, or FADA, a law that would allow individuals and corporations alike to ignore civil rights laws and discriminate against LGBT people. FADA would undermine future advancements
in civil rights law for LGBT people and gut existing federal nondiscrimination protections in many areas, including employment, housing, and the homeless shelters and hospitals.
Source: AmericanProgress.org on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Jan 18, 2017
Michelle Nunn:
Equality, ending gender-based violence can transform world
"Achieving real equality for women and eradicating gender-based violence can transform the world in many ways" stressed Michelle Nunn, President and CEO of CARE USA. "The highest and most powerful good that we can do is to invest in local women's
grassroots movements who are creating social and societal change." This was the main message during the roundtable discussion on gender-based violence, hosted by Global Washington.
Source: Global Washington on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Aug 25, 2014
Tom Price:
Supports football coaches proselytizing at high school
In response to concern that state employees leading students in religious activities is commonplace and not an isolated event, Collins replied, "They're right. In Hall County and throughout Georgia's 9th district, we-- cherish our right to worship in
our own way." Collins said he felt disgusted that while "innocent lives are being lost in Iraq and other places at the hands of radical religious terrorists, a bunch of Washington lawyers are finding the time to pick on kids in Northeast Georgia."
Source: The Humanist on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Aug 25, 2014
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