[Lnc-business] Seeking co-sponsors

[Elizabeth Van Horn]

This has nothing do to with high school kids.  The pictures are from a
medical school yearbook, and Gov. Ralph Northam was an adult.  In his
own words:

"Earlier today, a website published a photograph of me from my 1984
medical school yearbook in a costume that is clearly racist and
offensive." 

https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/gov-northams-medical-school-yearbook-page-features-men-in-blackface-kkk-robe

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Elizabeth Van Horn
LNC Region 3 (IN, MI, OH, KY)
Secretary Libertarian Party of Madison Co, Indiana
Vice-Chair Libertarian Pragmatist Caucus
http://www.lpcaucus.org/ 

On 2019-02-02 00:25, Justin O'Donnell via Lnc-business wrote:

> During our 2016 convention, particularly during the presidential debate, a question was asked regarding restoring 2nd amendment rights to felons. I believe Darryl Perry's response to that question is something to take to heart in this matter. The gist of it was, that if you believe that some people are completely beyond hope, and beyond all possible growth or rehabilitation, then you don't believe in the spirit of humanity and forgiveness, and accept that some people are just 100% bad. And if you believe that some people cannot grow and better themselves, and are rotten by their very nature, then you don't believe that libertarian philosophy can ever be tested at large, because there would always be an element of society that could never be trusted to exercise their own rights. 
> 
> This motion would ask us to condemn a man for an attitude and beliefs he held in high school, decades ago, before I was even born 29 years ago. If we were to consider that as a proper use of station, then I believe it also prudent that we first examine ourselves to ensure that we cast no stones from a glass house. I know myself, when I was in highschool, 15 short years ago, a product of stern conservative upbringing in an ethnically homogenous wealthy suburb of Boston, was often of the type of mind where I and my friends would have found humor in the very actions we're busy condemning today. If I, in a much shorter period of time can grow to understand the wrong and abhor the culture of hate which I once embraced, then I have to believe that anyone can.  
> 
> I would oppose this resolution, and would urge everyone else to as well. We shouldn't be in the business of capitalizing on sensationalized controversy in an effort to satisfy a politically correct outrage culture, unless we aim to forget where our principles and hearts truly lie.
> 
> Justin O'Donnell
> LNC Region 8 Representative