Democrats insert Hate Crimes legislation into Defense Bill

I'm sorry for the link to the anti-gay bigots at LifeSite, but I haven't been able to find a better link yet.

Meanwhile, please understand the bias, lies and distortions:

Senate Democrats Sneak "Hate Crimes" Bill into Crucial Defense Bill
Would hold US troops fighting "War on Terror" as hostages in exchange for sweeping "hate crimes" legislation

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Senate Democrats will hold US troops fighting the "War on Terror" as hostages in exchange for sweeping "hate crimes" legislation if the Senate votes this week, perhaps as early as Monday, to include it in the defense spending bill.

Instead of introducing the legislation giving sexual orientation "hate crimes" protection as a separate bill, Senators Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) opted to introduce the "Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act" as one of hundreds of amendments to the Defense Reauthorization bill requested by President Bush.

"There's no question this is an attempt to sneak the bill in under the most shameful circumstances because they are attaching it to the defense of our military troops," Mat Staver, founder of the Liberty Counsel told LifeSiteNews.com.

Sens. Kennedy and Smith's strategy, Staver said, forces the President into a terrible dilemma: President Bush must either approve "hate crimes" legislation or veto the entire spending bill thus leaving US troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan without new support and dwindling resources. Since the President has no line-item veto, approval of the defense bill is an all or nothing deal.

More:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07071305.html

When you pledge to fight for the country, you pledge to fight for everyone in it.

That includes LGBTQ folks as well. If the Pentagon is instructing its soldiers not to fight for everyone's freedoms, they should inform the Commander-in-Chief immediately.

Eight of the nine GOP candidates blew off the debate hosted by the NAACP. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3375891 The core of their party fought their own president against providing ANY path to legal status for more than ten million immigrants. They are racist, homophobes. And while we continue to fund this war which they started partly in the name of Christian bigotry and hatred, it is more than appropriate to tie the issues together, and raise them both as aspects of the same problem.