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Patricia Schroeder: “we are told that a million men will be marching on Monday in this city, and we are told that the march is to strengthen…”

On the recordOctober 13, 1995
we are told that a million men will be marching on Monday in this city, and we are told that the march is to strengthen and rebuild families, but where are the families? They are to be at home. This is to be a sex-related march with no women. It is to be an age-related march with no children. I think, Mr. Speaker, men professing to celebrate family in a family free zone makes no sense. If women went off to spas saying they were rebuilding themselves to celebrate family, they would be attacked. The way we need to celebrate and build America's families is shoulder to shoulder and marching together. I certainly hope the organizers rethink and make this an inclusive march of men, women, and children, marching together to rebuild the family structure of America that is so desperately in need of rebuilding.
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado
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Addressing a planned march focused on men and families.

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