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>petition president obama to show compassion this thanksgiving!

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Each year, President Obama pardons two turkeys at a White House Thanksgiving Ceremony. The pardoned turkeys are then sent to a Disney Theme Park where their good fortune quickly declines. Many of the pardoned turkeys sent to the theme park have died within just one year.

Farm Sanctuary is petitioning the White House to send the turkeys to their shelter in Watkins Glen, New York, instead of the Disney Theme Park. Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur has this to say:

“We are offering the Obama administration an opportunity to distinguish themselves from past administrations by starting a new, compassionate Thanksgiving tradition that is more in-step with Americans’ growing concern about the welfare of animals raised for food…By sending the pardoned birds to Farm Sanctuary’s renowned shelter in Watkins Glen, N.Y., the Obama Administration can show that it cares about the humane treatment of animals, and ensure that the turkeys get the expert care they need to thrive.”

Please help Farm Sanctuary to petition the White House! The petition, information about Thanksgiving’s toll on turkeys, and resources for a compassionate holiday can be found at adoptaturkey.org.

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>Marathon Wins Wheelchair Ban

The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ruled Thursday that wheelchair-bound competitors need not be admitted to the New York City Marathon.

The court ruled on a suit brought by the State Division of Human Rights, which had charged the New York Road Runners Club, the race’s organizing body, with discriminatory practices in barring the disabled.

Fred Lebow, the club’s president, had cited safety factors, arguing that wheelchairs posed danger not only to runners but also to the disabled, because the chairs often speed downhill at 35 to 40 miles an hour.

In Thursday’s ruling, Justice Francis T. Murphy Jr. held that, since the marathon is historically a foot race, the Road Runners Club was not discriminating against people bound to wheelchairs.

By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Published: April 11, 1981

This particular article reminds me of many articles that are overcrowding the newspapers ever since November 4th, 2008. Wheelchair-bound competitors are NOT banned from the New York City Marathon (and MANY others) anymore. The banning of wheelchair-bound competitors WAS unfair and wrong, just like Prop 8. Time will tell if gay marriage rights prevail. Perhaps the Church was responsbile for whispers against wheelchair-bound competitors.

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