Posted on 09/26/2005 12:47:56 PM PDT by manumission
Hmmm yeah tell me again why I should go vote Republican again?
oh.. for the Chilren
I'm in favor of equal protection for everyone.
That includes homosexuals and all races and genders.
So is the cosntitution. How is this bill requiring unequal protection possibly gonna be constitutional?
How did it pass with a Republican majority?
It won't survive the court challenge, but write your Senator and demand a no vote.
I hope you aren't criticising the GOP. If so, you couldn't be more wrong. You see, you "my way or the highway" conservatives just don't get it. This is all part of a grand strategy to defeat the democrats, once that is accomplished, then we can start talking about promoting our agenda. /sarcasm
I don't scare easy, but this does the trick.
Libertarian party here I come.
#####It won't survive the court challenge#####
That's what everyone said about McCain-Feingold. The 1st Amendment is now considered "optional" by some of our Supreme Court justices.
What a load of crap!
This essentially states that Congress can make things up and we have to buy it. For each class of characteristic they deem to be a protected class, including, sexual preference, they claim that people are being forced across state lines to avoid persecution???
Where?????
That's what Bush said about McCain-Fiengold.
How is this bill requiring unequal protection possibly gonna be constitutional?
How did it pass with a Republican majority?
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Because too many Repubs ARE NOT CONSERVATIVES, especially Constitutional conservatives. That is why this crap passed...
Because you are a lemming incapable of independant thought who believes that voting for anyone not on the status-quo ticket is throwing your vote away?
Other than that, I can't think of a single reason.
What makes you think that? This kind of stuff clearly violates the Constitution, but it's been decades since the courts worried about that.
And I don't for a minute buy the excuse that this amendment was slipped in secretively. You don't even need to read a bill with "hate crimes" in its title to know what is going on.
Absolutely astounding..
Are these supposed to be laugh lines???
"These authorities can carry out their responsibilities more effectively with greater Federal assistance"
"..it devastates not just the actual victim and the family and friends of the victim, but frequently savages the community sharing the traits that caused the victim to be selected. "
"Such violence substantially affects interstate commerce in many ways:.."
LOL I can see you've learned the lines well. No doubt from hearing them so often.. :)
Yeah, right! They said the same thing about "campaign finance reform", and "eminent domain" too. Guess what.....
Christian property in the confiscation crosshairs..
Go long in guillotine stox...
lol thank you, I needed that chuckle this afternoon.
Check out excuse #9 for why this falls under interstate commerce:
"Such violence is committed using articles that have traveled in interstate commerce"
Well, there you have it. We all wear clothes and eat food that have crossed state lines. Apparently then congress has the constitutional right to regulate any and every action of every single American.
Glad they cleared that up for me.
This has to be a new high water mark in the stretching of that notion. I thought I had seen it all when it was applied to drug free school zones, but no. This takes it.
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