What stage is this in? Has it been approved by the house already?
Congressman Billybob
I didn’t know that the gay community needed this much backing from the United States Armed Forces that they would wrap themselves together with the military’s priorities. What strange bedfellows these Democrats paired up in this bill.
Do what you usually do then.
Fight for legislation just like it but just a bit less harmful and say you saved the day from those mean dimocrats.
This legislation could have far more dangerous implications for national defense and unit cohesiveness/effectiveness than McCain and others are letting on--and those are just the military implications.
Add to that the irony that the Shepherd killing was a robbery run amok.
But beneath it all is the fact that any, and that means ANY "protected class" creates a group more protected by law, which flies in the face of EQUAL protection under the law and makes second-class citizens of EVERYONE NOT IN ONE OF THE "PROTECTED CLASSES".
For a view from the other side, see http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/29/hate-crimes-hysteria/ , especially the comments. They honestly feel that we “hate” them and that opposition to the bill means that we want them assaulted.
How is it possible to bridge this divide?
Who were the R’s that supported this? Are Byrd and Kennedy still AWOL? If so that means at least 5 R’s had to support it.
If anyone has it, I would like the list of senators voting for and against attaching this bill as an amendment to the Defense bill. We need to get on the phones and or send e-mail to register our displeasure.
In the long run the perverts will abuse the extra protections. Once the abuse becomes common normal people will do what has to be done.
How many Republicans are standing up to say that when Republicans are back in power, they will repeal this inanity?
What? None?
This is their problem. They assume that no matter what atrocities the Democrats have legislated when the Democrats were in power, the Republicans are *obligated* to accept the status quo. They think that whatever the Democrats do is set in concrete, but the Democrats are fancy free to change anything the Republicans do, with no consideration at all to what the Republicans think.
What was that saying about, “If you are going to be raped, you might as well lay back and enjoy it”? That is the Republicans in a nutshell.
They are co-dependent Democrats.
This will be applied to Churches to shut them down when they teach that homosexuality and pedophilia are wrong.
I can’t speak for the others, but Snowe and Collins are vulnerable without the Navy shipyard in Bath, ME — This really appears to me that they are playing ball to save the shipyards — I could be wrong.
But in light of the letters sent to Jon Kyl’s Governor in Arizona and threat that he received this last week
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293486/posts
— I’m not shocked that Snowe and Collins are playing ball - But, they should have the same courage as Kyl to step up to a microphone and expose the threat.
The dems are turning up the heat — using their mafia style tactics to get their legislation through. IMO.
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