Full story: Congress acts to extend hate crimes to cover gays
Posted on October 9, 2009
Filed Under 365Gay, News
(Washington) The House voted Thursday to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation, significantly expanding the hate crimes law enacted in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968.
With expected passage by the Senate, federal prosecutors will for the first time be …
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