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I Favor Access To Discrimination On The Basis Of Sexual Orientation.

The Stark And Tragic Images Of Human Suffering In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina Have Reminded Us Yet Again That Civil Rights And Equal Rights Are Still The Great Unfinished Business Of America. The Suffering Has Been Disproportionately Borne By The Weak, The Poor, The Elderly And Infirm, And Largely African-americans, Who Were Forced By Poverty, Illness, Unequal Opportunity To Stay Behind And Bear The Brunt Of The Storm's Winds And Floods. I Believe That Kind Of Disparate Impact Is Morally Wrong In This, The Richest Country In The World.

If I Can Leave A Single Message With The Younger Generation, It Is To Lash Yourself To The Mast, Like Ulysses If You Must, To Escape The Siren Calls Of Complacency And Indifference.

We Should Stop The Non-scientific, Pseudo-scientific, And Anti-scientific Nonsense Emanating From The Right Wing, And Start Demanding Immediate Action To Reduce Global Warming And Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change That May Be On Our Horizon Now. We Must Not Let The [bush] Administration Distort Science And Rewrite And Manipulate Scientific Reports In Other Areas. We Must Not Let It Turn The Environmental Protection Agency Into The Environmental Pollution Agency.

In An Era When America Is Still Too Divided By Race And By Riches, Judge [samuel] Alito Has Not Written One Single Opinion On The Merits In Favor Of A Person Of Color Alleging Race Discrimination On The Job: In 15 Years On The Bench, Not One.