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Boehner: ‘Just Plain Wrong' for Democrats to Attach Hate Crimes Measure to Defense Bill
cnsnews ^ | October 09, 2009 | Pete Winn

Posted on 10/09/2009 6:50:32 AM PDT by opentalk

GOP congressmen accuse House Democrats of “using” the military and an otherwise bipartisan defense-funding bill as a means to ram through a key piece of legislation on the homosexual activist agenda – expanding the definition of hate crimes to include sexual orientation.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freespeech; hatecrimebill; obama
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the move amounted to creating a “thought crimes” statute. They engineered this abuse of the legislative process because they had no way other to pass legislation that is unconstitutional and just plain wrong,” he said.

Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the chaiman of the Republican Study Committee, called the inclusion of the measure in a bill intended to fund the military “an absolute disgrace.” It was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) who had reportedly insisted that the hate crimes measure be part of the conference report for the $680 billion FY 2010 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 2647).

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1 posted on 10/09/2009 6:50:32 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

Stated bluntly,
the “Hate Crime” concept’s ultimate goal

is to be able to use State power against Christianity.


2 posted on 10/09/2009 6:51:41 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: opentalk
So that's it? The republicans whine, call it a disgrace, bend over and take it in the arss? No fight, no law suits?
3 posted on 10/09/2009 6:58:41 AM PDT by gedeon3
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To: MrB

“..is to be able to use State power against Christianity”

Yes and suppress any dissent to the left’s agenda.

Hate crime is the extension of campus thought codes to everyday life.

Democrats assault individual freedom on many fronts daily.


4 posted on 10/09/2009 6:59:54 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: gedeon3

Does this mean I can no longer call fags homos? Does this mean I can no longer call queers fruits? Oops. I guess I just did. lmao.


5 posted on 10/09/2009 7:01:29 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: y6162

The “left’s agenda” IS anti-Christian, really.
James 4:4.


6 posted on 10/09/2009 7:01:40 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: opentalk

It’s like we’re following a road-map of Europe.


7 posted on 10/09/2009 7:06:29 AM PDT by bronxville
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To: opentalk

What the matter with the effing democrats? Why don’t they just make it against the law to disagree with any democrat.. why do one pity-party dem victim group after another - just do them all.


8 posted on 10/09/2009 7:06:36 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSM BIAS: grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell)
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To: opentalk
Boehner: ‘Just Plain Wrong' for Democrats to Attach Hate Crimes Measure to Defense Bill

Try something novel. Don't vote for it.

9 posted on 10/09/2009 7:53:59 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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