Quote of the Day | May 15, 2019

“I often hear that this type of thing should be happening in the home and the parent should be educating their child on these issues. My response to that is, well generations of people in Oklahoma never got that themselves — how on Earth can they teach the next generation when they were never taught these things?”

– Stacey Wright, an advocate for requiring consent education in Oklahoma public schools, after a bill to do so failed for a third year [OU Daily]

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Quote of the Day | May 15, 2018

“I think this law, in general, is one of those interesting ways out; lawmakers have found a way (to ensure) it’s exactly legally permissible. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean it’s good policy or that you should.”

-Allie Shinn, director of external affairs for American Civil Liberties Union Oklahoma, speaking about Oklahoma’s voter ID law which was recently upheld by the state Supreme Court [Source].

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