Here’s the full text of the bill (only 4 pages or so)
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1913
On the surface its purpose is to help Local, State, Tribe governments prosecute crimes where the motive for the crime was the victim’s “race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability”.
On the service the help takes the form of grants and additional personnel to help the subordinate governments prosecute a case. But also there’s the following: “No prosecution of any offense described in this subsection may be undertaken by the United States except ...”. That means that the Federal Government can actually be the prosecutor.
Four reasons are given for the Federal Government stepping into a case. The first three have the lower-level government (e.g. Local) making the call. The final reason says that the Federal Government can step in if it feels like it.
Does the bill protect pedophiles? Given the text of the bill, I’d like someone to explain how it does that.
Pedophilia is a sexual orientation.