"It made Indiana look like we were backward, intolerant and that we sanctioned discrimination against people of the LGBT community," said Lanane of the Religious Freedom Rights Act (RFRA) battle from March 2015.
Perez said moving the stones "was not something that we sanctioned," but was apparently done by some of the protesters working on their own overnight.
Why do we need sanctions that would hurt us too?
Arresting people for smoking a harmless plant is not life-sustaining when they're self-medicating, but yet we sanction pharmaceuticals that sometimes have terrible side affects and are dangerous.
When several representatives asked about what effect a military option might have on Iran's program, Blinken tried to convince his interrogators that negotiations were more pragmatic: "they have the knowledge, and we can't bomb that away, we can't sanction that away".
"So, I kind of feel that if we impose a sanction that goes towards imprisonment, we wouldn't really be solving the problem.
"We must create the space in which we exercise real power, in which we are capable of imposing sanctions -- that is, we punish deviants and enemies, we support comrades in the struggle, we help fellow citizens who are oppressed, marginalized and persecuted," the manifesto declares.
RS: And we had these sanctions that were quite punitive, and.
But they'd be wise to circle back to the reasons that we sanction -- and that we negotiate.
"Yet we're supposed to lift sanctions that would take years to reimpose, if we could get countries to agree," the administration official said.
They say they'll be vigilant in patrolling the sanctions that remain; "we won't turn a blind eye to anything," one said.
