Past and present Senate candidates from Georgia: on Civil Rights

Jim Barksdale: Eradicate anti-LGBTQ discrimination codified in legal code

Jim Barksdale: The gender wage gap is a real economic crisis

We cannot continue to have women paid fractions compared to their male counterparts. In Georgia, women earn 82 cents for every dollar earned by men, and for women of color the disparities are even more stark. The wage gap is a real economic crisis and has to be addressed by our elected leaders in Washington.

In Georgia, 562,000 households are headed by women. Eliminating an unfair wage gap would give a much needed boost to Georgian families who need to pay rent, buy a car to get to work, save for retirement and educate their children.

Amanda Swafford: Marriage equality is an individual freedom

Amanda Swafford: Government has authority to redefine marriage

Swafford: Strongly Disagree

David Perdue: Government shouldn't redefine marriage

Perdue: Strongly Agree

Rick Allen: Marriage is a union of one man and one woman

Allen: Strongly Agree

David Perdue: AdWatch: Perdue's company sued for gender pay discrimination

Perdue served as CEO of Dollar General from 2003 to 2007. In 2007, more than 2,000 female store managers filed a lawsuit against Dollar General, claiming the company consistently paid male managers more than female ones. Dollar General ultimately paid millions to settle the case in 2011, after Perdue had left the company.

"David Perdue owes the people an explanation for why he's killed and outsourced jobs and why his company was at the center of a pay discrimination suit--and most importantly, whether he still believes that women and men should not be paid the same amount for the same job," said the president of Emily's List.

Michelle Nunn: Support equal pay, and do it now

Equal pay is respect for hard work, and every minute we let go by without it hurts Georgia families.

We should be able to come together in a bipartisan way to make life better for millions of Americans--and grow our economy in the process.

But Congress isn't going to act on its own. That's why it's crucial for all of us to speak out about how important it is to support equal pay, and to do it now.

Urge Congress to support equal pay now, without delay: Families in Georgia and across the nation need our help today.

Paul Broun: Government shouldn't redefine marriage

Broun: Strongly Agree

Derrick Grayson: Government ain't got no business being involved in marriage

"The government ain't got no business being involved in marriage," he claims. "Any laws that deal with marriage that are on the government's rolls need to be rescinded. Marriage is a church thing; that's a religious thing. If there are gay people out there that want to get married, let them find a gay church."

In the spirit of a truly unbiased constitutionalist, Grayson goes on to express his approval of civil unions in the eyes of the law. "Let me be clear now--I do not support same-sex unions as a Christian, but I would not stand in the way of two individuals if that's what they want to do," he says. "If that is their pursuit of happiness, then I want them to have it."

David Perdue: Uphold Georgia's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage

"As a senator, I've got to uphold that, so I support that, whatever the law of the land is in Georgia," he said. "As a U.S. senator, I'm not going to get involved in state decisions like this. It's a constitutional amendment. If that changes, then I will support that with the population.