<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African American president."</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- A pledge titled </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; ">"The Marriage Vow: A Declaration of D<em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; ">ependence</em> upon MARRIAGE and FAMILY." drawn</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; "> up by Bob Vander Plaats, a man who ran for governor of Iowa in 2010 and lost in the Republican primary, and signed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; "> by Michele Bachmann.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/michele-bachmann-signs-anti-gay-pact-that-says-times-were-better-for-black-kids-during-slavery.html">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/michele-bachmann-signs-anti-gay-pact-that-says-times-were-better-for-black-kids-during-slavery.html</a><div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Seeya at the Park Bench Dedication Ceremony tomorrow at 3:00 pm in East City Park to pay tribute to Bob Greene, Rep. Shirley Ringo, and Rep. Tom Trail, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen </div><div>Moscow, Idaho<br><div><br></div><div>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">and the Realist adjusts his sails."</span></div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>