- Resistance Is Futile!
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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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.
Hate crimes??? Isn't EVERY crime a hate crime, I am soooooo sick of every minority having their own set of rules.
LOL
you dont choose to have blue eyes, i dont think they should be protected either though.
I had better get this off my chest now.
Against nature, queer, fag, abomination!
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!
I don't think Bush will sign anything like that.
I support rocksblues tagline!
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?
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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?
When do they start jailing my pastors for reading from the Bible?
He vetoed it in Texas, as I recall.
Homosexuality is a fetish, not a lifestyle.
***GASP!!!***
You said the "B" word!!!
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?
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.
To say so will soon be a crime, as it already is in Canada and Sweden.
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