Hate crimes bill goes to Obama for signature

CNN ^ | 10/22/2009

[GoldStandard]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate passed groundbreaking legislation Thursday that would make it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.

The expanded federal hate crimes law now goes to President Obama's desk. Obama has pledged to sign the measure, which was added to a $680 billion defense authorization bill.

[A_Former_Democrat]

We don’t need no thought control

[DonaldC]

I wonder what else is attached to this bill.

[pissant]

Hells bells? Why didn’t the GOP put up a fight and publicize this horsesh*t?

[Gaffer]

Let me guess Existing While White.....

[SaveTheChief]

Hells bells? Why didn’t the GOP put up a fight and publicize this horsesh*t?

I'm going to guess that your question is rhetorical.

[pissant]

I’m absolutely disgusted.

[Kimberly GG]

....”that would make it a federal crime to assault an individual”...

call me stupid, but what kind of crime has it been?

[MaxMax]

Who protects us normal people from the Government? /r

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[jwparkerjr]

re: added to a $680 billion defense authorization bill

Until we have a way to stop the and force every bill to stand or fall on its own nothing’s going to change.

Elections have consequences.

[altair]

Worse. Existing While Heterosexual ...

So if you walk down the sidewalk holding hands with your wife and a homosexual sees you, does that make it a hate crime?

[NormsRevenge]

The Left and its minions can go to Hell.

Is saying that a hate crime... Yet?

[roses of sharon]

You forget, the GOP constituents who put them in office will not even give up football to battle Al Sharpton, the new NFL Commissioner.

How in the hell will they battle the gay mafia?

[randomhero97]

call me stupid, but what kind of crime has it been?

Assault doesn't have to be physical. So much for the 1st Amendment.

[SaveTheChief]

I know you are. All of us are disgusted. It is time we realize that the GOP in its current form is nether a champion of limited government nor a protector of individual liberties.

[Gaffer]

Yes, but in the end it still is about not being a ‘minority’ and the best example of a non-minority is a white male, unless he happens to be a flamer.

[maine-iac7]

which was added to a $680 billion defense authorization bill.

There needs to a law against adding spurious bills onto others in order to get them snuck through...each law needs to be a stand alone so that we all know what's being voted on.

[TaraP]

10 yrs mandatory prison sentence for anyone caught calling a Male *SISSY* for wearing Pink dresses, high heels and nail polish...

[TaraP]

Who protects us normal people from the Government? /r

Our Creator....Jesus Christ....He still is in charge, with all this chaos going on...

[pointsal]

Republicans...RINO just does not cover the situation. Try describing them as DIABLO (Democrat in all but label only)!

[Starboard]

What if a gay guy hits someone with his purse? Is that a hate crime?

[TaraP]

The Left and its minions can go to Hell.

Only if you say it this way:

The Left and its SISSY minions can go to Hell.

[Mr. Wright]

One thing is for sure, an attack on a white, Christian, heterosexual is not, and never will be, a hate crime.

[MaxMax]

Using their logic, that would be legal and deserving if the person was straight.

[Cheetahcat]

T guess the GOP is asleep again!

[animal172]

When was the last time they were awake?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Guess I’d better go punch my LibTard, Femi-Nazi, Lesbian, Convicted Felon, Loser sister one more time while I still can...

*SMIRK*

[CIB-173RDABN]

Laws need to be “neutral”. Once you get into trying to interpet what someone was thinking you open up a big can of worms. There may come a day the left is sorry they went down this road.

[Federalist Society]

Can someone point me to the authority under Article I Section 8 which makes this Constitutional? It is seeming to escape me.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

So all other crime is Love crime?

[Rocky]

Does this bill protect Fox News from irrational hatred by the Obama Administration?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

And if a sexual-minority assaults a normal person, he/she/it will go scot free.

[FreeAtlanta]

What about being a black conservative?

[Procyon]

And the RNC wonders why their letters end up in the circular file.

[YOUGOTIT]

When will the first religious person be arrested? And when will the people who are jury members be told that they have the authority to declare any law unconstitutional and find anyone not guilty of an unconstitutional non law and that they should never listen to what they are told to do when they are aware of the so called law being unconstitutional?

[tacticalogic]

We don’t need no thought control

It's not "thought contorol". It's just "regulating interstate commerce".

[Jack Wilson]

Did liberals ever hear of equal protection under the law? I assume the ACLU will challenge this.

[tumblindice]

The feds can’t secure our borders or prevent infanticide (legitimate health & safety concerns) but they are apparently prepared to devote police powers/assets to cruise homosexual bars looking for straight bullies (guys like you and me, minding our own business) while using their state of the art Magic 8-balls to read our minds so that Perez Hilton doesn’t get his azz kicked or feelings hurt(queerwelfare).
OK, situation normal inside the beltway!

[beejaa]

I spent around four hours emailing each senator, so needless to say...

There are two YouTube links having to do with oligarchy, democracy and a republican form of government. The first is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhNobpG_4fQ . The video makes it clear, in simple terms, why our (past) republic was so unusual.

I still have some hope for the 2010 and 2012 elections. If not, then we will relearn what we should have known by 1989: that socialism is tyranny and doesn’t work.

[sergeantdave]

Has this totalitarian crap ever been brought before a court to challenge the constitutionality?

[combat_boots]

This can be used to silence Christianity. Imagine your pastor in prison for teaching the Bible.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Wonder if that includes a verbal assault? How many kids will be committing a federal crime when they say “That’s so gay” or the next generic teenaged phrase?

[Vendome]

I thought it was understood that if you hit someone without provocation or threat of violence or intimidation, that was a crime.

No man should assault another man without an expectation of greater force being applied to stop the initiator of assault.

That could very much result in the antagonist landing in the hospital.

Why do we need a thought a crime?

[Prole]

And what happens if a black male attacks a white person?

Hate crime prosecution, correct?

[Cheetahcat]

When was the last time they were awake?

Good Point !the last I checked for Americans there were only 31 in the house and 1 In the Senate out of 545 in DC.

[liberalism is suicide]

Don’t be surpised.You’d probably hurt(sniff)some pervert’s feelings by such a display of(gasp)normalcy.

[liberalism is suicide]

Dream on.

[Prole]

I was being sarcastic.

:o)

[WallStreetCapitalist]

“Until we have a way to stop the and force every bill to stand or fall on its own nothing’s going to change.”

That really is the bottom line. Nothing else matters until that is fixed.