[churchillbuff]

I believe that George Allen, a big favorite here, supports adding protection of gays to this law."""

Could you supply some evidence for your claim? It's a pretty significant accusation - can you back it up?

[Old_Mil]

The criticism comes from Joe Glover, president of the Virginia-based Family Policy Network (FPN) and involves an Oct. 27, 2000, letter that Allen wrote to a constituent.

The recipient of that letter was acting as a liaison between Allen - at the time a candidate for the Senate - and pro-family leaders who were concerned about Allen's position on granting legal recognition or special privileges to homosexuals.

"As we discussed, if I am elected to the Senate, I will take no action that would have the effect of elevating sexual orientation to civil rights status," Allen wrote, "including, but not limited to, adding sexual orientation to Federal Hate Crimes legislation or any other similar legislation."

...the freshman senator voted to support the addition of "sexual orientation" as a protected category under the federal "hate crimes" law in 2004. The amendment did not become law, but the House recently passed a similar proposal. Glover is rallying conservatives to discourage Allen from supporting the current measure in an upcoming vote.

[Captain Kirk]

I said I believe, that's not exactly an "accusation." I heard it on the radio show, Point of View. I'll try to dig into it today if I find the time.....though you're free to google too!

[Captain Kirk]

It took me all of three minutes of googling to find it. For more background on George Allen's opportunistic and unprincipled support for adding gays to hate crime laws, see here.