Candidate #1: NICE MOVE NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS
New Hampshire Republicans wear pearls during a bill hearing as gun control victims testify. Photograph: Shannon Watts A group of male Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire have come under criticism for a stunt that gun control advocates say was demeaning to victims of gun violence: donning pearl necklaces to apparently mock those testifying in front of them.
Candidate #2: SON, YOU’VE GOT DIRT ON YOUR FOREHEAD. WASH IT OFF.
A fourth grade student says he wasn’t allowed to wear an important religious symbol to school. Like millions of Catholics and other Christians around the world, William McLeod received an ash cross on his forehead to commemorate Ash Wednesday.
When he arrived at school, he noticed he was the only student in his class wearing the ash cross. “A lot of students asked me what it is. I said, ‘I’m Catholic. It’s the first day of Lent. It’s Ash Wednesday,’” William recounted. But moments later, William says he was confronted by his teacher. William tried to explain the symbol’s significance, but he says the teacher forced him to wash it off. “She took me aside and she said, ‘you have to take it off,’” William described. “She gave me a disinfection wipe — whatever they are called — and she made me wipe it off.”
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