Senate attaches 'hate crimes' amendment to FY 2008 Defense Authorization Act

[Soldier4Christ]

Senate attaches 'hate crimes' amendment to FY 2008 Defense Authorization Act

A conservative military watchdog is calling Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) to task for successfully attaching a hate crimes amendment to the fiscal year 2008 National Defense Authorization Act.

Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, says members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees are currently in conference to work out a final version of the Defense Authorization bill. She is hopeful they will remove the hate crimes amendment that Senator Kennedy was able to convince colleagues to include in the Senate bill. Donnelly says the amendment is not fair to members of the military.

"He claimed that it was necessary to protect military people from hate crimes. Well, that was a false allegation because we know that when there have been problems of that nature in the military they have been punished promptly," she argues.

Donnelly says there is no need for additional legislation and that this hate crimes amendment would not even affect the military. She is concerned about what may emerge from the conference committee, although she does hope committee members will not be swayed by what she calls Kennedy's "besmirching" of the military for political gain. If the hate crimes amendment is preserved in the final version of the bill, she hopes the president will follow through on his pledge to veto it.

[HisDaughter]

Ted Kennedy is a dangerous embarrassment to the country.  Always has been, always will be.

[Shammu]

Ted Kennedy is a dangerous embarrassment to the country.  Always has been, always will be.

Edward (no not Ted) Kennedy, has trashed the collective reputations of millions of U.S. military service members in order to advance his "hate crimes" legislation, which would make it a crime to utter a negative opinion about homosexuals or their lifestyle.

Back in Feb. 2007, the U.S. Senate yesterday approved an amendment by Kennedy and Smith to install in federal law a ban on such expressions of religious and personal opinion. The Defense Authorization bill has been twisted to shamelessly smear our military.

We live in a world where even the Bible is being deemed 'hate' literature. Christians have already been jailed for upholding traditional morality in public places, and if hate crime laws proliferate, the freedom to speak one's mind will be limited to those who celebrate and promote homosexuality. The issue of such legislation has Christians, conservatives, constitutionalists and 1st Amendment advocates in the United States alarmed.

The www.StopHateCrimesNow.com website features the testimonies of those who have had first-hand experience with local so-called "hate crimes" laws in the United States. A 75-year-old grandmother describes how she was jailed for testifying about the Bible.

[nChrist]

Brothers,

Thanks for the link. I will do everything I can to stop this bill. By the way, this bill is illegal and Unconstitutional, and so was the law in Philadelphia that resulted in so many arrests. There does come a time when Christians must say, "NO!" and mean it, and this is one of those times. Philadelphia is supposed to be the "cradle of liberty" and the place for the founding of a Christian nation for Christians. We fought a revolution for this purpose, and our rights are supposed to be secured by the Constitution. If the law had been enforced according to the Constitution, these arrests are obviously ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL! I, for one, refuse to tolerate the loss of religious freedom, and all Christians should feel the same way. By "refusing to tolerate", I mean just that, regardless of what our clowns in Washington pass or don't pass. One of the first steps is to vote out of office every single clown who voted "Yes" for this illegal and Unconstitutional garbage. Removing our rights requires a vote of the people, and we haven't had that vote yet. If we did, this garbage would be put back where it belongs - the head of the twit who dreamed it up.