Posts tagged Politics
Posts tagged Politics
Christian school to lesbian couple: Divorce or your son will be expelled
Samantha and Kally Mabe are a happy married couple living in South Africa with their 5-year-old son. They were open about their status as lesbians with the school when they enrolled their child. But now, school officials Secunda Highveld Christian School in Mpumalanga are saying they had no idea, and that the couple must get divorced or their son will lose his spot.
Ana says: “It feels a little good to know crazy religious people are everywhere, not just in the United States.”
President Obama quietly signed legislation Monday that rolled back a provision of the STOCK Act that required high-ranking federal employees to disclose their financial information online.
The White House announced Monday that the president had signed S. 716, which repealed a requirement of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act requiring the disclosure, which had previously been delayed several times by Congress.
The Stock Act is an anti-corruption measure, put in place so that government employees and lawmakers couldn’t trade stocks using unfair insider information. And now, Congress and the Senate have come together to agree to be rid of it. Who says nothing ever gets done in Washington? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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