Free speech in hate crimes bill
The government in the UK will let a free speech amendment stay in new hate crimes legislation.
Tags: Free Speech, Government Uk, Hate Crimes Bill, Hate Crimes Legislation, Speech AmendmentGOP: Hate Crimes law "offensive"
Leading Republican John Boehner said he opposes hate crimes legislation because it’s an “abuse.”
Tags: Gop, Hate Crimes Legislation, John Boehner, RepublicanHate crimes leg passes Senate
The Defense spending bill that contained LGBT-inclusive hate crimes legislation passed 87-7.
Tags: Defense Spending, Hate Crimes Legislation, SenateSenate adopts amendments to hate crimes measure
The U.S. Senate has adopted a hate crimes measure as part of the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill — and with it, amendments introduced by an opponent of hate crimes legislation.
Adopted on July 16 by unanimous consent after cloture was invoked, 63-28, the hate crimes measure was altered by four amendments. All four amendments were approved Monday.
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Senate gives nod to gay-inclusive hate crimes bill
The U.S. Senate voted 63-28 to attach gay-inclusive federal hate crimes legislation to the 2010 defense authorization bill. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D.-Mass., who first proposed amending U.S. hate crimes law to cover sexual orientation, issued a statement saying that the proposal would “[close] the flagrant loopholes that for too long have prevented effective prosecution of these shocking crimes that terrorize entire groups of communities across America.” Google/The Associated Press
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Leahy to introduce Matthew Shepard Act
Senator Patrick Leahy will add hate crimes legislation as an amendment to the DOD reauthorization bill.
Tags: Dod, Hate Crimes Legislation, Matthew Shepard Act, Patrick Leahy, Reauthorization Bill, Senator Patrick LeahyChristian conservatives fight expansion of hate-crimes law
With a Democrat-controlled Congress and a president who has indicated his support for the Matthew Shepard Act, time may be running out for its opponents. To stop the legislation, a few Christian leaders have suggested repealing all hate-crimes law, which would undo historic protections for race and even religion.
“The entire notion of hate-crimes legislation is extraneous and obsolete,” said Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs with the conservative nonprofit Liberty Counsel, adding that he believes hate-crimes laws are unconstitutional.
In addition, a number of Christian conservatives have raised fears that pastors would be prosecuted for inciting hate crimes if they had preached against homosexuality, despite assurances that the law only targets physical violence.
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Lowenstein: Hate Crimes bill to move in Senate this week
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An anonymous Democratic Party source told the Washington Blade that hate crimes legislation will likely go to a vote before Wednesday in the Senate. The legislation, which the House of Representatives passed earlier this year, will be attached to a …
Tags: Democratic Party, Hate Crimes Bill, Hate Crimes Legislation, House Of Representatives, Judy Shepard, Lowenstein, Party Source, Senate, Vote, Washington BladeUtah Governor’s gay-rights stance honored
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. will be honored by Utah’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community at this weekend’s pride festival. The Utah Pride Center and other LGBT organizations have picked Huntsman for the Pete Suazo Political Action Award. Huntsman is the first Utah governor to openly support civil unions for same-sex couples. Earlier this year, he also endorsed the Common Ground Initiative, a campaign for basic legal protections for gay and transgender Utahns that fizzled in the Legislature. The award is named for the late state Sen. Pete Suazo, who worked for years to pass hate-crimes legislation in Utah.
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How low will the GOP Go? They Accuse Dems Of Using Hate Crime Bill To Protect Pedophiles (VIDEO)
The new, new thing in criticizing Hate Crimes legislation is to pretend that the Democrats have gone and given a whole bunch of special considerations or legal protections to pedophiles. That’s the case that Representative Peter Steve King made to a suppliant Sean Hannity yesterday:
HANNITY: We’re running out of time. Is it safe to say that Democrats were willing to protect pedophiles but not offer the same protection to servicemen and women? Is that an accurate statement?
KING: Sean, it is a matter of congressional record. Absolutely true — beyond any doubt whatsoever. The recorded votes are there to prove just what you’ve said. They — and on top of that, [Rep.] Alcee Hastings [D] from Florida, that spoke on the rules debate, and he read a list of about 30 different paraphilias — proclivities, I call them — including pedophiles, necrophilia, and a number of things that I wouldn’t say on this program or any other. And he said I think all philias whatsoever should be protected by this law. That means every perversion that you can imagine would be special protected status under the Democrats’ bill that passed off the — floor of the House of Representatives.
OK, in the first place, Representative King needs to get his head examined, brusquely, by some sort of pneumatic hammer. Ryan Grim made note of Alcee Hastings’ little bit of Congressional theater, which was done to demonstrate that “every perversion that you can imagine” WOULD NOT BE PROTECTED BY THE HATE CRIMES ACT.
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