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Time of India
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
'Your wife will leave you': Vivek Ramaswamy trolled after posting family pic wishing 'Happy Fourth'
Vivek Ramaswamy was asked to go to Mumbai or Gujarat by trolls as he wished Happy Fourth. GOP leader Vivek Ramaswamy is not new to social media trolling as he's asked to go to India every time he posts something on X. As the Ohio Guv hopeful posted a family picture celebrating the Fourth of July, it was a repetition of the same situation -- people asking him what he has to do with July the Fourth and that he should go back to India, celebrate either in Mumbai and Gujarat -- summing up a few reactions to his post. "I wonder if any of your family or friends will get deported under Trump's regime? Maybe your wife will leave you if her family members get deported," one particularly hateful comment read. Vivek Ramaswamy's wife Dr Apoorva Tewari is also from India but was born in the US. "You should celebrate with your family in Gujarat or Mumbai," another comment read. — DavidShares (@DavidShares) "Did you redeem the freedom fries and the anchor baby citizenship," another read. Is Vivek Ramaswamy an anchor baby? Vivek Ramaswamy came under renewed hatred after President Donald Trump ended birthright citizenship. The US has given automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country but Trump said this was not meant for everyone and hence he wants to change the rule. This was contested but is now in a dubious state as the Supreme Court said lower courts can't nationally stay the president's executive order but did not mention Trump's birthright citizenship order. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch vàng CFDs với sàn môi giới tin cậy IC Markets Tìm hiểu thêm Undo Vivek Ramaswamy is called an anchor baby as he was born to a non-citizen mother. But is it true? Yes, Ramaswamy admitted that his mother took the citizenship test after he was born and his father did not take it and is not a US citizen. It was his father's decision for familial reasons, he said. But his parents immigrated to the US legally and Ramaswamy was born in Cincinnati. 'I want to be very clear about this. I think that birthright citizenship does not and should not apply to the kids of parents who entered this country illegally,' Ramaswamy said earlier. Indian-origin Ramaswamy has already made a record by raising the highest fund while the Ohio Guv election midterm is one year away.
NBC News
21-05-2025
- Politics
- NBC News
Trailblazing gay rights activist honored for turning his firing from Army into lifelong mission
After he lost two federal court battles, Kameny filed his petition with the nation's highest court despite having no legal experience. In his petition, he did something revolutionary: He didn't deny he was gay; instead, he challenged long-held social beliefs that there was something inherently wrong with same-sex attraction. 'Petitioner asserts, flatly, unequivocally, and absolutely uncompromisingly, that homosexuality … is not only not immoral,' Kameny wrote, 'but that, for those choosing voluntarily to engage in homosexual acts, such acts are moral in a real and positive sense, and are good, right, and desirable, socially and personally.' Even though his petition was denied, it would be the defining moment of Kameny's life. The focus and surgical exactitude that qualified him to guide a missile through the stars would from then on be applied to guiding an unwilling society to the idea that gay Americans were, in every way, deserving of equal rights and respect under the law. 'Frank Kameny didn't necessarily set out to be an activist,' said Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the Supreme Court's 2015 landmark same-sex marriage ruling, Obergefell v. Hodges. 'Frank Kameny saw injustice. He was experiencing unfair treatment, and he reached that point where he was no longer willing to accept it, and he took action, and it was a scary thing for him to do to start these, these marches in public, to demand equality and fairness.' From pickets to pride marches In 1961, the year the high court rejected his petition, Kameny and fellow activist Jack Nichols founded the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organizations in the country. At a time when homosexual acts were punished by law and homophobia was the norm, Kameny proclaimed his identity in the streets, even in front of the White House and other government buildings. He also persuaded other gays and lesbians to picket along with him and demand equal rights. That culminated in the Annual Reminder demonstrations outside Philadelphia's Independence Hall, which started in 1965 and continued until 1969. Kameny enforced a strict dress code for participants at the demonstrations to create an air of respectability. 'It was 100 degrees, 100 literally; it was July the Fourth. Boiling hot,' Wicker said. 'Frank insisted we all wear coats and ties and that women all wear dresses and we act as 'ordinary Americans.'' Longtime LGBTQ activist Martha Shelley, who also participated in the pickets, similarly loathed the dress code: 'I hated having to put on a dress or skirt and march around with these pre-printed picket signs and be respectable,' she recalled.
