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Letter: Exercising their Constitutional rights

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

The irony of a woman disparaging the hundreds of thousands of women who demonstrated across this country against the newly elected president’s objectives is hard to ignore (“Childish behavior,” Dawn Dale, Jan. 26 Readers Write).

While campaigning, this president was heard on tape stating he could grab women by the genitals and get away with it because he was famous. He also agreed that women who have abortions should go to jail. The man is a narcissistic misogynist and for any woman to admire him is difficult to understand.

When Donald J. Trump was elected president, was the First Amendment rescinded? “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Assembling and petitioning was what was happening in the Women’s March on Jan. 21. These women and men should be praised for exer...

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