2022 MO Senate race: on Civil Rights
Dave Schatz:
LGBTQ nondiscrimination not at forefront of issues
The Missouri Nondiscrimination Act seeks to expand the list of characteristics in the Missouri Human Rights Act. MONA, as the nondiscrimination act is referred to, would add sexual orientation and gender identity to that list of characteristics.
President Pro Tem Sen. Dave Schatz said the issue is not one that's been on the forefront of what he's engaged with, and "(the Senate) will take that as it comes."
Source: News Tribune on 2022 Missouri Senate race
Jan 12, 2020
Dave Schatz:
ERA really about abortion; Jesus would oppose it
In Missouri, anti-feminist activists leaned heavily on Republican legislators, using the scare word "abortion" in order to stoke opposition to equal rights. And sure enough, the Republican leader of the state Senate, Dave Schatz, came out against the
ERA, saying that the "majority of this [amendment] is about abortion" and claiming that Jesus would oppose it. (Jesus' known positions on issues of human equality would suggest otherwise.)
Source: Salon.com on 2022 Missouri Senate race
Apr 30, 2019
Eric Greitens:
Stood with cops; restored law and order; defeated Antifa
Framing himself as a "fighter" and a stalwart backer of former President Donald Trump, Greitens unveiled his campaign during an interview on Fox News. "I was honored to serve the people of Missouri as their governor. We took on the establishment,
we killed a politicians' pay raise, we ended a corrupt tax-credit program. And when antifa came to Missouri, we stood side-by-side with police officers and we were able to restore law and order and defeat antifa," he said.
Source: NBC News on 2022 Missouri Senate race
Mar 22, 2021
Eric Schmitt:
1964 Civil Rights law doesn't protect LGBT people
In August 2019, Schmitt signed on to a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that federal law does not protect lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender individuals from workplace discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights law.
As the Kansas City Star reported, "The brief, signed by Schmitt, contends federal law prohibits only sex discrimination and the plain meaning of 'sex' is biological status as male or female, not sexual orientation or gender identity.
Source: Riverfront Times on 2022 Missouri Senate race
Apr 1, 2021
Mark McClosky:
Sued to enforce unmarried couple rule against gay couple
They already had a long and well-documented history of litigation, threats and neighborhood feuds. They were locked in litigation to make their neighborhood association enforce a rule against unmarried couples residing there. [A neighbor] said they only
cared because a gay couple had moved into the exclusive neighborhood."Certain people on Portland Place, for political reasons, wanted to make it a gay issue," Mark McCloskey told The Post-Dispatch.
Source: The Jewish Daily Forward on 2022 Missouri Senate race
Aug 24, 2021
Vicky Hartzler:
Opposed transgender soldiers service & Equality Act
Hartzler's House tenure has been marked by her staunchly conservative stances on social issues. She championed an effort to restrict transgender soldiers from serving in the military and has spoken against the
Equality Act, which would establish national anti-discrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.
Source: Kansas City Star on 2022 Missouri Senate race
Jun 10, 2021
Vicky Hartzler:
Supported clerk refusing to issue same sex marriage licenses
In 2004 she served as spokeswoman for the Coalition to Protect Marriage in Missouri, which successfully campaigned for a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Following the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage,
Hartzler was the only member of the Missouri delegation to issue a statement in support of Kim Davis, clerk of Rowan County, Ky., who refused to comply with court orders directing her to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Source: KTTN-FM 92.3/KGOZ on 2022 Missouri Senate race
Jun 14, 2021
Trudy Busch Valentine:
All have right to live with authentic sexual orientation
With Congress considering legislation legalizing same-sex marriage, the candidates were asked whether they would support prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. "All people
should have the right to live the authentic life they want to live," Valentine said.Libertarian Party candidate Jonathan Dine agreed that LGBTQ Americans should be able to live freely without fear of
persecution. "If you're in the public marketplace and you're selling goods or services," he said, "you have no right to discriminate against somebody based on their race, color, gender or sexual orientation."
Constitution Party candidate Paul Venable said Congress doesn't have the constitutional authority to prohibit anti-LGBTQ discrimination. That, he said, is the job of states.
Source: St. Louis Public Radio on 2022 Missouri Senate race
Sep 17, 2022
Eric Schmitt:
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 Missouri Senate race
Sep 12, 2023
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