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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You should fax it to him, email, and send it on stiff special paper in copperplate handwriting, handed to him on a silver salver by a liveried footman. And then call him and read it out loud.
What a jackwit.
I'm so disgusted by this I am beyond words. What the rhymes-with-bell is wrong with these people? Do they think none of us care? Do they think we won't notice? Do they think we'll vote for someone with an (R) after their name no matter what perfidy they vote for?
If things aren't brought to a screeching halt and turned around, I do believe this country will come to an end, at least as we know it. It'll split up, there'll be violence, defeat - who knows. But it cannot continue like this.
Hey Claud, Rep. Saxton is your rep too, I think. Give 'em some h#ll, will you?
How about some Hate Crimes Legistlation protecting Christians?
Hey Coleus, could you ping your NJ list to this? Rep. Saxton voted "Aye." He needs to hear from a few people...
He will. He shouldn't.
This legislation will make it easier for states to legalize same-sex marriage by silencing the critics of same-sex marriage.Opponents of same-sex marriage will be threatened with criminal sanctions.
OTOH- If Bush allows this to become law--- then, we all have pretty much wasted our time, last year, geting him here.
"We must become more tolerant of other peoples opinions, and lifestyle choices", seems to be the standard mantra nowdays-- among the modren, secularized"reformed" Christians, AND IT IS STRAIGHT FROM THE PITS OF HELL!!!!
Ditto. He shouldn't force this perversion on the American people. This is not Communist Red China.
Anyone who has voted or will vote for this bill is as sick as the queers they're endorsing. I want nothing to do with them.
Those who are against this bill should remember to book mark this page for future reference. Those Republicans who supported this bill will have political opposition that should be strongly supported in future elections.
An excuse to put preachers in jail--to arms!
Bump
Tis ironic you dismiss homosexuality as a 'fetish', a psychological concept, while ignoring that very same discipline's view of homosexuality.
Where have you been for five years? Bush doesn't know how to veto. The word isn't even in his vocabulary.
Isn't it in the Roe v. Wade Amendment? (/sarcasm)
Wrong, a fetish is a religious concept, an object of worship. It is also a neo-pagan, primitivist practice.
Pathetic. We control both houses of Congress, and the
Rats are STILL moving the ball on us.
Anyone who thinks the President will veto the legislation
this is attached to because of the "hate-crimes" provision
... well, you have another think coming, and you don't know
this president very well.
Jesus ...
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