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U.S. House backs hate crime measure protecting gays
Reuters ^ | 9-14-2005 | Joanne Kenen

Posted on 09/14/2005 4:28:18 PM PDT by COEXERJ145

WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday unexpectedly backed a measure to expand federal hate crime protection to gay people, a measure that House conservatives had blocked for years.

The Senate has passed similar legislation, which also expanded protections for the disabled, several times in recent years but House conservatives had argued that these cases should be dealt with on a local or state level without additional federal intervention.

This time the hate crime measure was attached to a bipartisan bill known as the Children's Safety Act aimed at tightening reporting requirements for child sex offenders. Companion legislation has not yet moved through the Senate, so the ultimate fate of the gay protection provision is uncertain.

Still backers were jubilant.

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1 posted on 09/14/2005 4:28:21 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
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To: COEXERJ145

What about a law to protect people with blue eyes, people who are short, people who walk with a limp, people with acne, etc. etc. etc. These people are nuts. A crime against a person is a crime.


2 posted on 09/14/2005 4:29:52 PM PDT by mlc9852
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Hate crimes??? Isn't EVERY crime a hate crime, I am soooooo sick of every minority having their own set of rules.


3 posted on 09/14/2005 4:30:51 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (I'm not afraid to say out loud what the rest of you are afraid to admit.)
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To: COEXERJ145
backers were jubilant

LOL

4 posted on 09/14/2005 4:31:17 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: little jeremiah; EdReform; DirtyHarryY2K; Clint N. Suhks; scripter
poing!

The Natural Laws Can Not Be Denied
- Resistance Is Futile!

5 posted on 09/14/2005 4:32:09 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: mlc9852

you dont choose to have blue eyes, i dont think they should be protected either though.


7 posted on 09/14/2005 4:33:10 PM PDT by HHKrepublican
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To: COEXERJ145
The hate crimes amendment would expand existing federal hate crime program to add sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and disability to federal hate crime laws. It would give grants to the states to help prosecute such crimes.

I had better get this off my chest now.

Against nature, queer, fag, abomination!

8 posted on 09/14/2005 4:33:24 PM PDT by rocksblues (I support the war on terror)
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To: rockabyebaby

Yeah, all other crimes are: "I LOVE YOU, MAN!!" as the knife is being rammed into the victim's chest for the 12th time.

Good grief!


9 posted on 09/14/2005 4:34:03 PM PDT by mn-bush-man
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To: COEXERJ145

I don't think Bush will sign anything like that.


10 posted on 09/14/2005 4:34:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: rocksblues


I support rocksblues tagline!


11 posted on 09/14/2005 4:35:23 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (I'm not afraid to say out loud what the rest of you are afraid to admit.)
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To: rockabyebaby

you slipped! Thinking of gay as a minority with special rights
leaps the fact that homo behavior is an act not a seperate characteristic. Unfortunately our cowardly congress is marching us toward soddam.

If I state that I believe homosexuality to be abnormal and an abomination can I be jailed for hate speech?
If I say a two parent heterosexual marriage is superior for raising children can I be jailed?

.?


12 posted on 09/14/2005 4:35:46 PM PDT by ChiMark
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To: rocksblues

Unreal. We poor, unfortunate white, straight, able-bodied males are just going to be regular old, vanilla, run of the mill murder victims. Everybody else is going to be a HATE CRIME murder victim.

Wouldn't that make us a MORE attractive target for a perp?


13 posted on 09/14/2005 4:36:05 PM PDT by mn-bush-man
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To: COEXERJ145

When do they start jailing my pastors for reading from the Bible?


14 posted on 09/14/2005 4:36:33 PM PDT by keats5
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To: HiTech RedNeck

He vetoed it in Texas, as I recall.


15 posted on 09/14/2005 4:36:52 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: COEXERJ145

Homosexuality is a fetish, not a lifestyle.


16 posted on 09/14/2005 4:37:16 PM PDT by bahblahbah
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To: keats5

***GASP!!!***

You said the "B" word!!!


17 posted on 09/14/2005 4:37:46 PM PDT by mn-bush-man
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To: mn-bush-man


Your post conjures up an interesting image, stab, I love you man, stab, I love you man, bang bang I love ya honey.

This world gets more ridiculous - hourly and btw the pledge of alegiance is unconstitutional, so PLEASE do not say it out loud! I think we should take "in God we trust" off of all our money, that should keep employed for awhile! I can't stand it.......where does this BS end?


18 posted on 09/14/2005 4:38:12 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (I'm not afraid to say out loud what the rest of you are afraid to admit.)
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To: ChiMark


ChiMark you are a homophobe and I support you! Here in MA gays have rights over and above the MAJORITY, what happened to MAJORITY RULES? MA is already okaying sodomy, gay marriage is legal here.


19 posted on 09/14/2005 4:40:37 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (I'm not afraid to say out loud what the rest of you are afraid to admit.)
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To: bahblahbah
Homosexuality is a fetish, not a lifestyle.

To say so will soon be a crime, as it already is in Canada and Sweden.

20 posted on 09/14/2005 4:42:33 PM PDT by JCEccles
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