Hate crimes leg introduced in House
The House Judiciary Committee will take up LGBT-inclusive hate crimes legislation today.
Tags: Hate Crimes Legislation, House Judiciary CommitteeCoalition urges swift passage of hate crimes bill
(Washington) The US House is expected to vote this week on legislation to add sexual orientation to the list of categories covered under federal hate crime law.
The bill was marked up last week by the House Judiciary Committee.
A wide coalition of national civil rights, human rights, and faith communities is calling …
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The House Judiciary Committee will take up LGBT-inclusive hate crimes legislation today.
Tags: Hate Crimes Legislation, House Judiciary CommitteeAnother lie from the far right: “All Violent Crimes Are ‘Hate Crimes”
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins is claiming “All Violent Crimes Are ‘Hate Crimes” after approval by the House Judiciary Committee of a proposed federal “hate crimes” bill, H.R. 1913.
We offer these two photos to rebut his fatuous claim.
In the upper photo see Sydney gay man Chen (Anthony) Liuas he looked before being set upon by gay bashers who killed him and left his body to decompose.
The lower photo shows what gay bashers do: it is an x-ray showing how they used a nail gun to kill this man. The decomposed body of 27 year old Mr Liu was discovered floating in the Georges River last November, the body been bound with electrical wire and wrapped in a rug. He had been shot in the head 30 times with a high powered nail gun. The nails embedded in his skull were up to 85mm long.
See how many nails they shot into his skull?
This is typical of a hate crime: a level of violence that far exceeds that of a robery or mugging.
Does Perkins get that? No: he claims “All violent crimes are hate crimes, and every victim is equally important. All of our citizens deserve equal justice under the law. Do we somehow care less about victims violently assaulted because of robberies or personal disputes than we do about those assaulted because they belong in a federally designated category?”
Any criminal act is hateful, but only some - those against people because of their color or orientation - are hate crimes. We can be sure that Perkins would be singing a different tune if those who followed his brand of “Christianity” were subject to the same level of hate crimes that LGBT people face every day.
It is un-American for Perkins and his ilk to use LGBT as cannon fodder in their effort to generate fund raising dollars and build political power.
But to mislead people about the need for hate crimes legislation to generate fund raising dollars and build political power is more of a ’sin’ than anything two gay men can do to each other.
Shame on those seld-appointed “Christians” who pervert Christ’s teachings into a cover for the kind of homophobic violence that killed Mr. Liuas.
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Hate crimes leg introduced in House
The House Judiciary Committee will take up LGBT-inclusive hate crimes legislation today.
Tags: Hate Crimes Legislation, House Judiciary CommitteeHouse committee takes up hate crimes bill
(Washington) Legislation to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of categories covered under federal hate crime law will be taken up Wednesday by the House Judiciary Committee.
It is expected the bill will be marked up and be sent to the full House for a vote, possibly before …
Tags: Crime Law, Federal Crime, Full House, Gender Identity, Hate Crime, Hate Crimes Bill, House Committee, House Judiciary Committee, Sexual Orientation, Vote, Washington LegislationN.H. gay bills move to house vote
(Concord, New Hampshire) New Hampshire lawmakers will vote next week on two LGBT rights bills - one that would allow same-sex couples to marry and one extending the state’s human rights laws to include protections for transpeople.
The House Judiciary Committee deadlocked 10-10 on both bills in votes Tuesday, meaning both …
Tags: Concord New Hampshire, gay, House Judiciary Committee, Human Rights Laws, Lawmakers, Lgbt Rights, Same Sex Couples, VoteHawaii lawmakers to consider gaming, gay marriage
“It’s always been about equality and equal rights,” Oshiro said.
Civil unions have broader support from labor unions and some religious groups this year than in the past, said Rep. Jon Riki Karamatsu, D-Waipahu-Waikele, the new House Judiciary Committee chairman who will hear the bill.
See Hawaii lawmakers to consider gaming, gay marriage
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