Candidate to Defeat Proposal

Candidates to Defeat meet the following criteria:

1. Strongly oppose most Equality Goals or have vetoed equality legislation
2. Running for federal or statewide office
3. Any party affiliation, sexual orientation, and gender identity
4. Can be defeated: they are within 10% of the opponent

Candidate to Defeat:

State and Race (must be federal or statewide race):

Your Name:

Your Email:

Please provide a link to a statement by the candidate opposing any one (or several) of these Equality Goals:

HATE CRIMES: Expanding hate crimes protections to include gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders

NON-DISCRIMINATION: Protection from Non-Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Public Accommodation for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders

MILITARY: Lifting the ban on Don't Ask Don't Tell and modifying medical and uniform military regulations

MARRIAGE: Allowing civil marriage regardless of gender

FREEDOM OF GENDER: Instituting rights and protections currently denied to those who do not conform to traditional gender roles

PROTECTING YOUTH: Creating protections for LGBTQ youth in schools, foster care, and the juvenile justice system

SAME SEX PARENTING RIGHTS: Granting LGBTQ parents the same rights and responsibilities that are now granted to heterosexual parents regarding adoption, foster care, child custody and visitation, and surrogacy/insemination

Please provide a link to a poll showing that the opponent is within 10% of the Candidate to Defeat:

Name of Opponent to the Candidate to Defeat. You can submit a recommendation to endorse the opponent if he or she is pro equality.