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Cummins has brought a conservative bent to the race to fill the seat of Ray Thornton, who's leaving for the state Supreme Court. Denouncing Vic Snyder's attempts to abolish the state's anti-sodomy law, Cummins praises the recently passed Defense of Marriage Act and expresses outrage that Snyder may have gays campaigning for him. Cummins once said he and Snyder weren't far apart on issues like Medicare, the environment and Social Security, but later declared he knows of no race "with a bigger difference between a liberal and a conservative...
This year Massachusetts voters have the chance to remove these membership requirements for the Fisheries and Wildlife Board and to ban two cruel methods of hunting and trapping animals. Question One, the only referendum question on this year's ballot, would change current law in three ways: It would abolish the requirement that five of the seven board seats go to hunters, ban steel jaw and padded leghold traps, and prohibit the use of dogs in hunting bears or bobcats, with some exceptions...
...Dole and the Republicans would have the voting public believe that "the center of all that afflicts our schools is a denial of free choice." They think special interest groups--read Democrats--have politicized education and, in doing so, have taken away power from the people. The solution? Abolish the Department of Education, grant families "choice" via vouchers, and empower parents, teachers and local school boards...
...whole career. Prop. 209 is really a by-product of the political-correctness wars in universities. These spawned an anti-p.c. organization called the National Association of Scholars, through which two academics, Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, met. Custred and Wood had separately got the idea of an abolish-affirmative-action ballot initiative, and in 1991 they joined forces and began actively pushing it, without much success...
Bennett and others have targeted no-fault divorce, in which one member of the couple can choose to end the marriage without citing a specific factor, such as adultery or desertion. Lawmakers in Michigan, which is at the forefront of this movement, recently introduced bills to abolish no-fault divorce and put up new barriers to both divorce and marriage. "Marriage is a commitment," says Brian Willats, a spokesman for the Michigan Family Forum, which supports premarital counseling. "It's not just notarized dating...