The homo-sex-obsessed Dr James Dobson piles on the merde
(video: Right Wing Watch at YouTube)
Watch and listen in amazement as pop psychologist and radical religious right icon Dr James Dobson makes shit up about hate crimes legislation and marriage equality.
Dobson seems to conveniently overlook the the fact that incest, pedophilia, necrophilia, prostitution, etc. are crimes and are not covered by the hate crimes legislation currently before the US Congress. In fact, Right Wing Watch points out that sexual orientation was defined in the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990 thusly: “As used in this section, the term “sexual orientation” means consensual homosexuality or heterosexuality.”
As for the whole they’re going to lock up your pastor lie, the bill specifically says:
Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this Act, shall be construed to prohibit any expressive conduct protected from legal prohibition by, or any activities protected by the free speech or free exercise clauses of, the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Religious liberties and free speech are protected under the law.
Meanwhile, in the New York Times yesterday:
EDITORIAL
Matthew Shepard ActAfter years of unconscionable delay, the House has approved legislation that would, for the first time, extend federal hate-crimes law to give substantive coverage to gay people. The act would be an important step forward in protecting all minorities from violence and a tribute to a young man whose life was cut short by bigotry.
In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, who was singled out by his attackers because he was gay, was tied to a fence, tortured and left in a coma to die.
His death galvanized a national movement to extend hate-crimes protection to gay men and lesbians, but it has also galvanized stiff opposition. Two years ago, a hate-crimes bill that included gay people stalled after President George W. Bush threatened to veto it.
The Matthew Shepard Act, as the bill is known in the Senate, would provide increased funding to state and local authorities to prosecute a wide range of hate crimes — ones motivated by race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. It would also authorize the federal government to prosecute these crimes when states fail to do so.
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After the House’s strong vote — 249 to 175 — in favor of the bill, the Senate needs to follow. Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, has introduced the companion bill, which has bipartisan support. Harry Reid, the majority leader, should quickly schedule a vote.
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