Did you know this still relevant American history? To protect your rights, maybe you should

[LVZ]

Women could not vote in the USA until 1920.

Contraceptive birth control pills were still illegal in some states until 1965.

Abortion was illegal in all cases in 30 states until 1973.

The clergy for women is still prohibited for Catholics, Mormons, and others.

Any form of Mormon priesthood was prohibited for blacks until 1978.

Interracial marriage was illegal in all 15 southern and border states until 1967.

Laws against gay sex existed in 14 states until 2002 - and still for the US military.

Half of working women and blacks were excluded from Social Security until 1954.

Medicare law 1965 - US Senate: Democrats 89% YES, Republicans 57% NO.

Voting Rights Act of 1965 stopped widespread Southern black voter suppression.

In 2011 Republican-controlled states enacted 19 new voter suppression laws.

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/01/09/voter-suppression-the-new-disenfranchisement/

[Angry Dragon]

1. I say women will decide this election

[HopeHoops]

2. Barefoot en pergnent.

Just the way the GOP thinks they should be. Attrition will help, but the GOP is always going to have idiots.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

3. K&R

[socialindependocrat]

4. Anyone want to keep making repressive laws - go back to Europe!

They aren't even trying to hide their prejudice anymore.

Must be a last effort before they fade off into the sunset....

[ProfessionalLeftist]

5. NOBODY is doing anything to stop this - from your link:

"In early 2009, I had dinner with a prominent, conservative political operative. He calmly (and accurately) predicted that the 2010 mid-term election would see the largest Republican gains in half a century. He then leaned in and half-whispered, “but you haven’t seen anything yet. Just wait until 2012 .” I pressed him on specifics, but he would only allude to a campaign that would rewrite the political rules. With the revelation that a centralized, state-by-state voter suppression campaign is underway, I now know what he was alluding to.

The New Voter Restriction Laws

In 2011, a sudden wave of state-level voter restrictions in Republican-controlled states has swept the nation, just in time for the 2012 election, with 19 new laws and two executive actions on the books. Some of these laws reduced or eliminated early voting, while others did away with weekend voting and same-day registration. All 50 states require voters to prove their identification at the polls, but 17 states have pending or approved law mandating government-sponsored IDs in order to vote, despite the fact that approximately 11% of citizens don’t have such IDs (for various reasons). For some Americans, even those with ample resources, getting an ID can be quite a challenge (even for nuns!).

The Brennan Center for Justice estimates that 5 million eligible voters face disenfranchisement from these new voter ID laws."

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