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CWALAC: Senate Must Prevent Special Treatment and Reject ‘Hate Crimes’ Amendment 9/15/2005 Washington, D.C.—Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) is urging the Senate to reject any “hate crimes” language in its version of the Children’s Safety Act. On Wednesday, the House passed an amendment to the Act sponsored by Michigan Democrat John Conyers that adds “sexual orientation” to federal “hate crimes” law. Then the House passed the full bill. Thirty Republicans joined 192 Democrats and one Independent in voting for the “hate crimes” amendment.
“The GOP-controlled House seems more interested in rewarding the homosexual lobby and following a left-wing liberal Democrat like John Conyers than in making sure dangerous laws like the ‘hate crimes’ amendment are defeated,” said Robert Knight, Director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute. “It’s up to the Senate to safeguard our liberties by rejecting this attempt to give homosexuals more protection under the law than other crime victims. The ‘hate crimes’ law, promoted for years by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts), is a major strategic goal of the homosexual activist movement.
“A similar state law in Pennsylvania led directly to the arrests of 11 Christians in Philadelphia in a public park last year and the felony prosecution of five of those Christians. Proponents claim that these laws are about protecting people, but they are really about creating a false new ‘civil rights’ category based on sex behavior, putting into place a system to suppress speech critical of homosexuality, and giving homosexuals more protection under the law than grandma gets.”
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