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Posted on 07/15/2009 7:24:43 PM PDT by Man50D
I just received this email from Liberty Counsel updating Harry Reid's deceitful tactic of attaching the Hate Crimes bill as an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill. Contact your Senators to demand they vote against this bill! Use the toll free capital switchboard numbers below the email if you choose not to fax but whatever you do pour it on!
Harry Reid is sneaking the anti-faith Hate Crimes bill through the Senate - and now it can come to a vote as early as tomorrow night! See my urgent message below. - Mat
The long battle against 2009's version of the Hate Crimes Law has come to a crucial hour! My sources inside the Senate tell me that this morning Harry Reid officially attached it as an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act and "filed cloture."
That's legislative jargon meaning there could be a vote on the bill as early as tomorrow night. Reid used every ploy in the book to keep any other Senator from adding amendments or modifying the Hate Crimes content. Reid's "fix" is in!
This is an outrageous manipulation of Senate rules for just one purpose - to keep the unneeded, indefensible Hate Crimes Law from getting a full and fair hearing!
Now Senators are being forced to make a choice between approving a vital defense spending bill and voting against the dangerous Hate Crimes amendment.
Even worse, Reid is using the cover of Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings in hopes that grassroots Americans like you will not take notice!
I feel citizens like you - who know just how dangerous this so-called Hate Crimes legislation really is - have forced the Senate Majority Leader to take this low path to deliver his political prize to the homosexual community.
In essence, Majority Leader Reid is sneaking this bill through as an amendment because he knows opposition is growing fast and he fears the bill could not survive on its own. Just yesterday, alert citizens like you delivered over 15,000 faxes to Senate leaders!
This battle has come to a pivotal junction! We've already done so much to stop this dangerous bill, butnow I need your help once again in two vitally important ways...
+ + FAX YOUR SENATORS NOW!
I need you to fax your senators right now - even if you'vealready done so one, two, or even three times before! Tell them you oppose the Hate Crimes amendment that is beingcynically smuggled through the Senate this week.
Together, we can stop this end run, but only if enough concerned Americans stand up and fight!
Go here to schedule your faxes:
http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?U=20213&CID=292&RID=1410...
As always, you can send your own faxes. We have provided all the information you need at the above link. Either way -- PLEASE SEND YOUR FAXES!
+ + Action #2 -- Call Harry Reid and your Senators now
Also, please continue to call Majority Leader Reid and tell him you oppose him sneaking the Hate Crimes bill through the Senate as an amendment. Our sources have informed us that Senate phones lines are jammed with calls.so keep it up!
LET'S SHUT DOWN HARRY REID'S PHONES ALL WEEK!
Outraged citizens like you have already forced him to take drastic steps to sneak this bill through -- NOW LET'S REALLY TURN UP THE HEAT!
Reid's Majority Leader office: 202-224-5556
Reid's D.C. Senate office: 202-224-3542
Also, call your two senators and tell them you STRONGLY OBJECT to the fast-tracking of the anti-faith Hate Crimes bill:
Talking Points:
1. I am very disappointed that the Senate is fast-tracking the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (S. 909) by attaching it as an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act.
2. This Hate Crimes legislation is so controversial that it must be considered as a stand-alone bill, not rushed as an amendment.
3. I oppose the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and urge you to oppose it as well. It is an attack on faith and family while granting special rights based on "sexual orientation" and "gender identity," terms which are not even clearly defined in the bill.
We've come to the climax of this long, hard struggle. Please take time today to pray that God will cause the tide to turn against the Hate Crimes Law, no matter what underhanded tactics Harry Reid and his cronies employ.
And please... take action today! Go here to send your faxes:
http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?U=20214&CID=292&RID=1410...
Thanks in advance!
Toll Free capital Switchboard Numbers:
800-828-0498
877-762-8762
Nevada needs to get this scum out of office. Can he be impeached now? His Vegas pals probably aren’t real happy with “their boy” since the $$ aren’t flowing in the casinos. Not good for Harry.
I’m a bit outraged that he hasn’t been excommunicated.
Reid doesn’t realize most all hate comes from his own party?
Hate crimes is a disgusting orwellian attempt at thought control.
They do this kind of thing in Congress all the time. It’s reprehensible in general to attach bills to other bills.
Congress is not a deliberative body - it’s a power center to push through legislation, whether the public wants it or not.
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Tick, Tock! Civil War closer every day.
The Senate is discussing this now (9:50 p.m. EDT)
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