Religions > Atheism > Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams
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"J Young" |
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21 Feb 2006 02:02:28 PM |
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Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams |
It's amazing how just one judge can turn common sense upside-down.
Immigrants need to know one thing; learn and speak ENGLISH.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200602\NAT20060220a.html
Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams
(CNSNews.com) - Seven out of 10 Alabama voters disagree with a Montgomery
County judge's decision that state officials can continue to conduct
driver's license exams in foreign languages, a new poll finds.
Results of the poll show 95 percent of Alabama voters agreed that English
should be the official language on driver's license exams, higher than the
89 percent who voted for a constitutional amendment to make English the
state's official language in a 1990 voter referendum.
"This poll shows there is a huge gulf between state officials and the people
of Alabama over the issue of letting people who cannot understand English
get driver's licenses," ProEnglish Executive Director K.C. McAlpin said in a
statement.
"There has to be a limit to multi-lingual pandering. And that limit is
crossed by policies like Alabama's, that not only violate the state's
constitution, but endanger public safety," McAlpin added.
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"Honesty, Integrity, Compassion, and Decency"
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| User: "Parsifal" |
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| Title: Re: Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams |
21 Feb 2006 02:16:07 PM |
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*It's amazing how just one judge can turn common sense upside-down.
*Immigrants need to know one thing; learn and speak ENGLISH.
Tell me, this has to do with the "compassion"-part of your motto,
right?
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| User: "Parsifal" |
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| Title: Re: Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams |
21 Feb 2006 02:16:22 PM |
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*It's amazing how just one judge can turn common sense upside-down.
*Immigrants need to know one thing; learn and speak ENGLISH.
Tell me, this has to do with the "compassion"-part of your motto,
right?
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| User: "Parsifal" |
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| Title: Re: Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams |
21 Feb 2006 02:16:24 PM |
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*It's amazing how just one judge can turn common sense upside-down.
*Immigrants need to know one thing; learn and speak ENGLISH.
Tell me, this has to do with the "compassion"-part of your motto,
right?
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| User: "Sgeo" |
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| Title: Re: Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams |
21 Feb 2006 02:56:19 PM |
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J Young wrote:
It's amazing how just one judge can turn common sense upside-down.
Immigrants need to know one thing; learn and speak ENGLISH.
English is incredibly complicated though. What if *you* were forced to take
a test written in, i.e., Chinese?
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200602\NAT20060220a.html
Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams
(CNSNews.com) - Seven out of 10 Alabama voters disagree with a Montgomery
County judge's decision that state officials can continue to conduct
driver's license exams in foreign languages, a new poll finds.
Results of the poll show 95 percent of Alabama voters agreed that English
should be the official language on driver's license exams, higher than the
89 percent who voted for a constitutional amendment to make English the
state's official language in a 1990 voter referendum.
"This poll shows there is a huge gulf between state officials and the
people of Alabama over the issue of letting people who cannot understand
English get driver's licenses," ProEnglish Executive Director K.C. McAlpin
said in a statement.
"There has to be a limit to multi-lingual pandering. And that limit is
crossed by policies like Alabama's, that not only violate the state's
constitution, but endanger public safety," McAlpin added.
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| User: "J Young" |
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| Title: Re: Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams |
21 Feb 2006 06:01:54 PM |
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"Sgeo" <sgeoster@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:U7LKf.762$dm5.613@fe11.lga...
J Young wrote:
It's amazing how just one judge can turn common sense upside-down.
Immigrants need to know one thing; learn and speak ENGLISH.
English is incredibly complicated though. What if *you* were forced to
take
a test written in, i.e., Chinese?
Were I to emigrate to China, I would learn the language (Cantonese being the
common tongue) and the local customs, otherwise I would stay in my native
country.
* trivia
(Q) Which country has the largest number of people who speak English ?
(A) China
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| User: "KZ" |
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| Title: Re: Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams |
21 Feb 2006 06:10:29 PM |
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"Sgeo" <sgeoster@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:U7LKf.762$dm5.613@fe11.lga...
J Young wrote:
It's amazing how just one judge can turn common sense upside-down.
Immigrants need to know one thing; learn and speak ENGLISH.
English is incredibly complicated though. What if *you* were forced to
take
a test written in, i.e., Chinese?
I'd say that it was really stupid and unfair. Unless of course I was trying
to obtain a driver's license in China.
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| User: "JohnN" |
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| Title: Re: Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams |
21 Feb 2006 03:06:07 PM |
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Like science, constitutional law is not a popularity contest.
JohnN
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| User: "R. Pierce Butler" |
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| Title: Re: Majority of Alabama Voters Support English-Only Driver's License Exams |
21 Feb 2006 06:15:14 PM |
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"JohnN" <jnorris53@hotmail.com> wrote in news:1140552456.462797.64480
@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
Like science, constitutional law is not a popularity contest.
JohnN
Agreed. The best selling song of all time is Elton John's "Candle in the
Wind". Popular doesn't make it good or correct.
pierce
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