A South Dakota Moderate

The big Value Voters debate scheduled to be held in Florida tomorrow looks like it is going to be a flop of somewhat biblical proportions as the big 3 1/2 in the GOP running for the White House in 2008 will not be attending. Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and the 1/2 candidate [...]

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As was expected, the latest incarnation of our legislator’s attempt to ban abortions passed through the House State Affairs Committee yesterday by a 10-3 vote which means that it is now headed to the full house. It did end up getting changed slightly as the committee members made things just a bit easier on [...]

South Dakota legislators are again hard at work this session trying to dictate to us what we should do. This morning at 10am the House State Affairs committee begins the process of getting this year’s version of the abortion ban going. Only a few month’s after voters turned down their last attempt, they have added [...]

KELO has a couple of stories regarding the possibilities of a watered down abortion ban again rearing it’s ugly head again sometime in the next few years. What is interesting is the mention by the state director of South Dakota Right to Life, Senator Brock Greenfield, that any future bill might need to contain rape [...]

As if you needed more proof that the government shouldn’t be involved in morality based programs.
From a pamphlet distrubted by federally funded abstinence program.
an abstinence program distributed pamphlets that suggested that the HIV virus can pass through condoms because latex is porous.
And from a federally funded pregnancy center.
A report says there were three major topics [...]

Do we really want to put discrimination into our constitution? Amendment C will do just that. What’s next painting large “A’s” on the foreheads of adulterers, or maybe burning witches at the stake? Sound silly? Well these are all instances from the past that at the time seemed like good ideas brought forward based on [...]

There has been a lot of rhetoric from supporters of Amendment C on what the actual meaning is behind their attempt to make the state not recognize civil unions, domestic partnerships or other quasi-marital relationships between two or more persons regardless of sex.
Along those lines here are a few examples from the mail bag of [...]

GOP Rep. Marilyn Musgrave from Colorado believes that there is only one “important issue that we face today” and that we could face a grim future.
So you would think that she is worried about the “war on terror” or some other conflict we are facing abroad, but if if thought that you would be wrong. [...]

Not to say that King George didn’t read the Federal Pension Bill he signed into law yesterday, maybe he just didn’t understand what he was reading? It turns out with one signature, Bush has accomplished something that many states have been legislating against now for several years. It actually contains provisions that help gay and [...]

As expected the Senate passed legislation expanding federal funding of embryonic stem cell research 63-37. Now it’s on to the President for his first veto.
Those voting against:
Allard (CO), Allen (VA), Bond (MO), Brownback (KS), Bunning (KY), Burns (MT), Chambliss (GA), Coburn (OK), Coleman (MN), Cornyn (TX), Craig (ID), Crapo (ID), DeMint (SC), DeWine (OH), Dole [...]

Not suprisingly, federally funded “pregnancy resource centers” are passing on incorrect and misleading information to individuals that request information on unintended pregnancies and abortions.
The pregnancy resource centers, which are often affiliated with antiabortion religious groups, have received about $30 million in federal money since 2001, according to the report, requested by Rep. Henry A. Waxman [...]

While I was doing some research for my South Dakota politics blog on Amendment C which has been dubbed the “gay marriage amendment” even though gay marriage has already been banned in our state and is actually aimed at all non-traditonal relationships, I ran across a post that struck a chord.
From time to time during [...]