R-ISLANDER

Carcieri Attacks Gays, Immigrants, the Poor and Unions

In a final round of legal briefs, Governor Carcieri argues that it’s against the state’s public policy to allow same-sex marriages, but unlike some others who share that view, he says it wouldn’t make sense to prevent two Providence women, who married in Massachusetts, from now getting divorced.

“While Rhode Island has a strong public policy opposing recognition of same-sex marriage, it also has an interest in allowing its citizens to extract themselves from those circumstances that the state has a strong public policy against,” Carcieri’s brief says. “By granting a divorce, neither the court nor the state endorses or lends validity to the marriage it is dissolving.”

So here's the logic:  although the marriage never existed in the first place according to RI Law, it's ok for RI Courts to dissolve it.  Huh?

Carcieri will misshape every sense of logic in his mean-spirited fight to prevent gay marriage and full equal rights for gay RIslanders.

It is time for every RIslander interested in the progression of equal rights for all RIslanders to oppose Carcieri as he attacks gay people, immigrants and those living in poverty.

We also need to identify and fight those democrats in the legislature who are acting like republicans and supporting the Carcieri mean-spirited initiatives against poor people, gays, and immigrants.

Republicans: "No Free Breakfast for Students"

There is a great news item on the frontpage of the South County Independent that demonstrates clearly the mean-spirited attitude of the Republican Party in RI after the school committee bravely, and in the interest of all SK students, agreed to institute a breakfast program for all students:

"Former School Committee member and Republican Party operative David Coté has filed complaints with the federal and state Departments of Education and the U.S. Agriculture Department over the School Committee’s decision to pilot free breakfast at the middle school."

Some narrow-minded people in the audience according to the article previously had suggested reporting families to the authorities for not serving their kids breakfast. 

Republicans....they don't mind spending billions if not trillions on supporting a war they lied about to get us to go to Iraq, but ask for a few thousand bucks for hungry school children, they get upset....where may I ask are Republican priorities?