On Thursday the U. S. Senate passed the Matthew Shepard Act 60 to 39, which expands the federal hate crimes laws to include, amongst other things, violence toward a person because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. This is a huge victory for GLBT rights, and human rights in general. Read More »
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U. S. Senate Passes the Matthew Shepard Act
By grljduplisea - Posted on September 30th, 2007
Tagged: hate crimes
• homosexuality
• human rights
• Justice
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Personal freedom
• Better future
God I love the news. It's almost as good as an orgasm some days.
By fallon - Posted on September 28th, 2007
Tagged: alcohol
• current events
• george bush
• hate crimes
• IRS
• Matthew Shepard Act
• SCHIPPS
• teenagers
• universal health care
• Effective government
• Personal freedom
• Better future
I was scanning various news sources earlier and ran across a few interesting stories on CNN that I thought I would share with you. While these are deserving of some commentary on my behalf because... Read More »
Matthew Shepard Act passed Senate
By SmellyCat-13 - Posted on September 27th, 2007
Tagged: discrimination
• hate crimes
• Human Rights Campaign
• Law
• Matthew Shepard Act
• SENATE
• sexual identity
• sexual orientation
• Shared responsibility
I beleive that it was yesterday that the Matthew Shepard Act went before the Senate. Today I received an email from the Human Rights Campaign saying "the U.S. Senate has just passed the Matthew Shepard Act!" Read More »
Racism and Discrimination are Alive and Kicking
By tauruschild8927 - Posted on September 24th, 2007
Tagged: discrimination
• hate crimes
• Justice
• Media
• My opinion
• Race
• Shared responsibility
• Effective government
• Personal freedom
• Better future
An essay on the title Read More »
The Matthew Shepard Act
By SmellyCat-13 - Posted on September 22nd, 2007
Hate Crimes at School
By crystalcraze13 - Posted on September 14th, 2007
I was reading in our Daily newspaper that this white man has been jumping groups of Indians. He has been doing this for several months now and we finely caught the man.
When he was asked why he had been beating up the Indians he said that " we are in war with them." He was sent to the mental health center to be evaluated and now is being released. Read More »
Neo-Nazis in Israel
By SmellyCat-13 - Posted on September 11th, 2007
Tagged: CNN
• hate crimes
• Hitler
• Israel
• Media
• Nazism
• Neo-Nazi
• news
• Film
• Shared responsibility
The other day I turned on the news while I was getting ready to go out, and saw something that disturbed me very deeply. Read More »
Hate crimes and free speech
By Guest - Posted on August 19th, 2007
Some people say that there shouldn’t be hate crimes laws:
The bill directly violates freedom of religion in this sense as it declares moral disapproval to be unacceptable.
