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Controlling thoughts, words, and deeds: the Matthew Shepard Act, "hate-crime" legislation, is supposedly needed to stop violence against people with abnormal sexual orientations, but it's clear that's not its intended goal.(CULTURE)(Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act)
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It's ironic that secularists will accuse traditionalists of being hung up on sex, when they are the ones who cannot stop talking about it and reducing it to the stuff of entertainment--and legislating on it. As for the last matter, their latest effort is H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which the House of Representatives passed on April 29 by a vote of 249-175. Known as the "Matthew Shepard Act" in the Senate, the bill would add "sexual orientation" as a protected class in federal hate-crime statutes. In fact, according to the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), it would include a staggering 30 different ...
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