I believe that George Allen, a big favorite here, supports adding protection of gays to this law.
Could you supply some evidence for your claim? It's a pretty significant accusation - can you back it up?
"Hate crimes" legislation is nonsense anyway, but if the government starts offering special protections for every lust-driven "lifestyle" choice, then pretty soon the only people actually needing protection will be decent, working, tax-paying, lawabiding white heterosexuals who haven't murdered any of their children.