Thursday, January 15, 2009

14th Amendment - no need for hate crimes legislation

Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 1/10/2009

A Christian attorney says the hate crimes legislation that's been introduced in the U.S. House is entirely unnecessary.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) has reintroduced a bill that would expand the federal hate crime statute to include crimes motivated by bias against a person's sexual orientation or gender. The measure has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee. It passed the House in 2007, but Democrats failed to garner enough support for Senate approval and faced the threat of a veto by President Bush. Now, their prospects are brighter with a larger majority in both houses of Congress and Barack Obama in the White House.

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