2010 National Defense Authorization Act

This was signed into law today 10/28/09 by President Obama and approved by the senate on 10/22/09 by a vote of 68-29. Attached to this “Must Pass” defense appropriations plan is the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention.

Personally I think this stuff is so shady. Why can’t they pass them separately? Why do they have to hide it in the Defense Fund? It is this kind of stuff that makes people distrust the government. I am a big fan of out government passing laws out in the open. Too bad they suck and don’t do it.

This bill creates federal protections and privileges for homosexuals and other alternative lifestyles but denies those protections to other groups of citizens.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder admitted a homosexual activist who is attacked following a Christian minister's sermon about homosexuality would be protected by the proposed federal law, but a minister attacked by a homosexual wouldn't be.

All I have to say about this is equality should go both ways. You can’t give one group of people rights by taking them away from another group.

I stole these out of this article if you want to read it. They were the best parts and quotes.

"All violent crimes are hate crimes, and all crime victims deserve equal justice," ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley said in a statement. "This law is a grave threat to the First Amendment because it provides special penalties based on what people think, feel, or believe. ADF will be on the front line to defend those whose free speech or free exercise of religion rights are violated by this unconstitutional law and to ultimately overturn this attack on freedom."

"It is fundamentally unjust for the government to treat some crime victims more favorably than others, just because they are homosexual or transsexual," Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute said. "This bill is an unnecessary federal intrusion into state law enforcement authority, and it is an unwise step toward silencing religious and moral viewpoints."

EVERYONE deserves equal rights under the law.