Please see this commentary: Senate: Filibuster 'Pedophile Protection Act' now!
In that piece, there are links to YouTube videos of actual House Judiciary Committee hearings where amendments to explicitly exclude pedophiles and other paraphiles (i.e., perverts) from protection under this bill. By party line votes, the amendments were rejected. Another bill was put forward to include hate crime protections for veterans because of their status as veterans. In addition to rejecting that amendment, the Congressman who offered that amendment was subjected to a severe tongue-lashing by Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz.
Alcee Hastings made the following speech on the floor of the House (CR H4936-4937):
Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of time.
Mr. Speaker, I have been on the Rules Committee a considerable amount of time, both in the minority and in the majority, and I have seen things come to the Rules Committee that I thought were trivializing the process, but yesterday took the cake for me.
We had an amendment offered by one of our colleagues to this particular legislation. I guess it was done in a creative fashion, and certainly the author of it did spend some time looking in the dictionary or creating new terms. And I apologize to our transcriber, but I am going to put in the Record what we have to put up with in the Rules Committee.
``The term sexual orientation,'' this proposed amendment said, ``as used in this act, or any amendments made by this act, does not include apotemnophilia, asphyxophilia, autogynephilia, coprophilia, exhibitionism, fetishism, frotteurism, gerontosexuality, incest, kleptophilia, klismaphilia, necrophilia, partialism, pedophilia, sexual masochism, sexual sadism, telephone scatalogia, toucherism, transgenderism, transsexual, transvestite, transvestic fetishism, urophilia, voyeurism, or zoophilia.''
All I can say is the late-night comedians need to come up there with me sometime so that they can get into the spirit of spuriousness that comes there on certain occasions.
This is serious business. Mr. Speaker, we can't legislate love, but we can legislate against hate. This legislation may not rid us of the intolerance and prejudices that continue to taint our society, but it will provide an added deterrent to those for whom these feelings manifest themselves into acts of violence. They will be fully aware that, should they commit a hate crime, there will be no lenience and they will not slip through the cracks of the American legal system.
Further, passage of this Hate Crimes bill will increase public education and awareness and encourage Americans to report hate crimes that all too often are silent.
Mr. Speaker, this bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice, and to guarantee that all Americans, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability--or all of these philias and fetishes and isms that were put forward--need not live in fear because of who they are.
I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule so that we continue to move this country toward fully achieving its promise of justice and liberty for all Americans.
I urge a ``yes'' vote on the previous question and on the rule.
I typically try to avoid citing WND for the same reason you do, but the links to the videos are there and can be viewed (if they can get past your firewall).
The DemRats are trying to pass a bill that literally gives more rights to pedophiles than active duty soldiers. THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!