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According to the March 18th issue of The Advocate, Republican supporters in the Senate of homosexual "rights," including Oregon Senator Gordon Smith, "say passage of a hate-crimes bill would be the best way to prove that Republicans aren't bigots" in the wake of the Trent Lott fiasco. "Even Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), once an opponent of such legislation, now says he is open to it and that he is working with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) on a new, gay-inclusive version of a hate-crimes bill." "If it's written right," insists Hatch, "I can support it?'
"I'm very confident that a hate-crimes bill will pass by a very wide margin in the 108th Congress," Sen. Smith told the homosexual-themed publication in an interview. During a recent Republican leadership conference, Smith ...