- Resistance Is Futile!
Posted on 09/14/2005 4:28:18 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday unexpectedly backed a measure to expand federal hate crime protection to gay people, a measure that House conservatives had blocked for years.
The Senate has passed similar legislation, which also expanded protections for the disabled, several times in recent years but House conservatives had argued that these cases should be dealt with on a local or state level without additional federal intervention.
This time the hate crime measure was attached to a bipartisan bill known as the Children's Safety Act aimed at tightening reporting requirements for child sex offenders. Companion legislation has not yet moved through the Senate, so the ultimate fate of the gay protection provision is uncertain.
Still backers were jubilant.
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What about a law to protect people with blue eyes, people who are short, people who walk with a limp, people with acne, etc. etc. etc. These people are nuts. A crime against a person is a crime.
Hate crimes??? Isn't EVERY crime a hate crime, I am soooooo sick of every minority having their own set of rules.
LOL
you dont choose to have blue eyes, i dont think they should be protected either though.
I had better get this off my chest now.
Against nature, queer, fag, abomination!
Yeah, all other crimes are: "I LOVE YOU, MAN!!" as the knife is being rammed into the victim's chest for the 12th time.
Good grief!
I don't think Bush will sign anything like that.
I support rocksblues tagline!
you slipped! Thinking of gay as a minority with special rights
leaps the fact that homo behavior is an act not a seperate characteristic. Unfortunately our cowardly congress is marching us toward soddam.
If I state that I believe homosexuality to be abnormal and an abomination can I be jailed for hate speech?
If I say a two parent heterosexual marriage is superior for raising children can I be jailed?
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Unreal. We poor, unfortunate white, straight, able-bodied males are just going to be regular old, vanilla, run of the mill murder victims. Everybody else is going to be a HATE CRIME murder victim.
Wouldn't that make us a MORE attractive target for a perp?
When do they start jailing my pastors for reading from the Bible?
He vetoed it in Texas, as I recall.
Homosexuality is a fetish, not a lifestyle.
***GASP!!!***
You said the "B" word!!!
Your post conjures up an interesting image, stab, I love you man, stab, I love you man, bang bang I love ya honey.
This world gets more ridiculous - hourly and btw the pledge of alegiance is unconstitutional, so PLEASE do not say it out loud! I think we should take "in God we trust" off of all our money, that should keep employed for awhile! I can't stand it.......where does this BS end?
ChiMark you are a homophobe and I support you! Here in MA gays have rights over and above the MAJORITY, what happened to MAJORITY RULES? MA is already okaying sodomy, gay marriage is legal here.
To say so will soon be a crime, as it already is in Canada and Sweden.
Here's a dumb question: what provision of the Constitution authorizes Congress to pass this kind of legislation?
I like your tagline also!
I didn't think a Pubbie-led House would pass it either.
Zero, Zip, Nada, 0, nothing etc!
Whew reuters gets all excited about a tiny amendment to push a bill through, while that amendment will probably be taken out if it ever makes it to a conference committee.
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JMO, it shows reuters immense liberal agenda, but of course some on FR will automatically scream "conservative betrayal" and become candidates for the San Francisco drama queen contest, while all in the while can't see they are being played like a fiddle by reuters.
I wonder if it snuck past their noses one more time. There has gotta be a toiletload of stuff that they don't even notice, when a typical bill is the size of a phone book.
Merry, hilarious.
So posting the above picture could soon be a federal "hate crime"?
Oh, give me a break...
You're kidding, right? Since when has GW found his veto pen?
Boy, I sure am glad we elected a Republican House to prevent such stupid bills from being passed. /s
Your on to something there. Not only will criminals have this in mind when considering crimes, they will probably be vindicated by the media for "standing up to" the majority.
Oh crap. It's already a crime. This target specific hate crime stuff has GOT to stop. I can't believe our Republicans are pandering like this.
Here is a list of all the bills our President has vetoed since elected the first time.
I think it is called the RINO provision.
"U.S. House backs...."
Careful now, with some gays it's hard to tell if that's a hate crime or a sex act.
Well someone should tell him that if he won't veto THIS one, half of the GOP will sit out the next election.
Looking at the link I put in reply #31, when tancredo and kuccinich vote the same way on a bill, it's akin to "I don't think were in Kansas anymore, Toto".
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
This is BAD, BAD, BAD. Very, very bad. I am disgusted. The House has stood up to this vileness for some time even though the good ol' boys in the Senate kept shoving it at them.
Now the principle-less so-called Republicans have surrendered without a shot being fired. I am steamed, angered, sickened, repulsed, and we need to email, write, call President Bush. He has to veto this. Has to.
Freepmail me AND DirtyHarryY2K if you want on/off this pinglist.
Note this abomination:
"add sexual orientation, gender, gender identity"
GENDER IDENTITY! Words cannot express how disgusted I am that so-called Republicans voted for this nastiness. If President Bush signs this, a very, very important line has been crossed.
I want names. I want names.
"I don't think Bush will sign anything like that."
I don't know what to expect. I've been dissapointed before...
Yea. I can't believe I'm reading this story. Guess they had to one up the Judge that threw God out of the pledge today.
See the link to the roll call vote in reply #31, when tancredo and kuccinich vote against the same bill, something ain't kosher.
"But of course some on FR will automatically scream "conservative betrayal"
Aren't you an OB person too? (Open Borders)
What exactly do you agree with that is considered conservative or american? Not knocking you personally, I really am curious.
See reply #31 for the roll call vote.
Republican NE (not equal to) Conservative
WTF!?!?
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