U.S. House backs hate crime measure protecting gays

[docwebster]

WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday unexpectedly backed a measure to expand federal hate crime protection to gay people, a measure that House conservatives had blocked for years.

The Senate has passed similar legislation, which also expanded protections for the disabled, several times in recent years but House conservatives had argued that these cases should be dealt with on a local or state level without additional federal intervention.

This time the hate crime measure was attached to a bipartisan bill known as the Children's Safety Act aimed at tightening reporting requirements for child sex offenders. Companion legislation has not yet moved through the Senate, so the ultimate fate of the gay protection provision is uncertain.

Still backers were jubilant.

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For more on this story, we go to that bastion of level-headed civic discourse known as FreeRepublic.com.

Those people need to get laid, seriously.

Comments

[bfly.livejournal.com]

Those people need to get laid, seriously.

Hey, they're not having any fun and YOU SHOULDN'T EITHER.

[bludfeast.livejournal.com]

I almost started a bit of a tirade that complained that we're too soft on most violent crime, then I read some of those posts.

Fuckers! Hateful, homophobic fuckers. I wouldn't trust any of them to sit the correct way on a toilet seat!

Fuckers!

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

"Atheists, are you here? Well, you must be feeling a right bunch of charlies!"