Last March, the Chamberlain School Board received a letter from the King (as in Martin Luther King. Jr.) Center for Nonviolent Social Change asking the board to recognize the ongoing request of many of its constituents to include a Lakota…
Posts tagged as “civil rights”
Score another first for Rick Weiland: he is the first South Dakota politician I've ever heard referred to as "campy" and "queer." Not just campy and queer, but the campiest candidate in America and the queerest candidate in South Dakota.…
In the dog-bites-man column, Governor Dennis Daugaard says that Sen. Phil Jensen's defense of KKK-style discrimination is "completely out of line with South Dakota values." It's not hard to gang up on a Republican Senator who says stupid things that…
P&R Miscellany tries the now-familiar tactic of beating us liberals over their head with our own relativism and tolerance. P&R forgets that I'm not a relativist and I don't tolerate baloney. P&R counters the successful backlash against South Dakota's failed…
House State Affairs voted wrong a lot yesterday. In two meetings, including a p.m. session that dragged into European supper time, House State Affairs decided to force all students to honor God and country at school, declined to end South…
Rapid City Stevens student Josie Weiland has raised a public ruckus about her legislators' shockingly specious and retrograde attitudes toward civil rights for all committed married people. Now she and fellow Raider Elle Fettig are taking their support for spouses…
South Dakotans interested in justice and equality, you have at least two candidates for U.S. Senate who are willing to stand against the South Dakota Legislature's urge to roll back civil rights. Democrat Rick Weiland has condemned Senate Bill 128,…
Sanity, sweet sanity... from Republicans! Rep. Anne Hajek (R-14/Sioux Falls) finds Senate Bill 128, which would protect bullying based on sexual orientation as a perfectly reasonable expression of religious freedom, just one example of "scary" legislation with which her party…