The Declaration of Independence of the United States was ratified on July 4, 1776. It begins with this phrase: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Many of the men who signed that statement were themselves slave owners. This...
To carry on with the theme of congressional hypocrisy, we continue with the list of offenders who talked one way and behaved another: Phil Hinkle, a member of the Indiana House of Representatives who voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage,...
San Francisco Bay Area people, just like those in most other parts of the country, value integrity and resent hypocrisy. Nowhere, it seems, does hypocrisy surface more than in the sexual arenas. And there are knowing nods and smirks in those cases in which some...
Vice president elect, Kamala Harris, embodies the best of San Francisco Values as she has shown throughout her public service career. An example is easy to observe through the eyes of all who know her. President elect Joe Biden selected Harris as his running mate...
The U.S. refugee and asylee population paid $63 billion more in taxes than they received in benefits to all levels of government from 2005 to 2014. — U.S Department of Health and Human Services The overriding impact of immigrants is to strengthen and enrich American...
Studies show that most people who identify as gay and lesbian know this at an early age. Our own research supports this: everyone we interviewed said they had feelings of being different or having attraction to the same gender before the age of ten. Those same-sex...