U.S. Congress - S.909 Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act
S.909 - Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act
A bill to provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for other purposes. view all titles (3)
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- Official: A bill to provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Popular: Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act as introduced.
- Short: Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act as introduced.
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Gee mister wizard have you ever seen an asteroid impact with the earth… Just ask the Russians or the dinosaurs they can tell you all about it.
Since I brought up the dinosaurs and there destruction from a fireball from out of the sky…. maybe mister story teller preacher can name their sin… were there gay dinosaurs too, oh please tell us mr. preacher man.
I guess god missed his target in siberian given that it only killed one person… guess he was gay too
Gotta love the stories these christian nut jobs buy into….
Once again you all can see for yourselfs why I commend President Obama for signing this Bill into law this fine Wednesday morning. No it won’t prevent our good wacapath preacherman from harming someone, but it sure will provide for the federal assistance in investigating and locking these self rightous religous nut jobs away for a good long time. Oh and by the way preacher nut… preach away I’m still an athiest… have a nice day!
Oh my god preacher man I think I just saw the holy ghost…. no that was just Casper again
Aren’t all crimes/murders a HATE CRIME? You hate the person enough to kill them or rob them. I don’t care if someone wants to be gay or straight or whatever. Why introduce more bills that aren’t going to work. Americans have the right to feel and think they want to. What happened to being free to hate someone or be racist? It might not be the smartest thing, but you are a free American you have the right to be racist.
You are right that we already have laws on the books to convict people of violent crimes. The part you don’t see is how often crimes against the gay community are dismissed and poorly investigated given the victims status. This bill provides for federal intervention that in effect forces the hand of those who don’t feel like prosecuting.
To the far right… this has been law now for almost a year now and I’m still waiting for your preachers to be locked up for preaching their good news!!!!
If you are a member of the LGBT community and are or know of someone who is a victim of a violent crime contact us at
freefromhateLGBT.org
website is under construction so keep checking back until it is up
Thanks Krystal Mountaine