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Hate crime bill. Bush vetos life, peace and love. What a bastidge!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/04/MNG9SPKPT51.DTL&feed=rss.news

San Francisco Chronicle
Veto threat for federal hate crimes protection for gays

Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Friday, May 4, 2007



(05-04) 04:00 PDT Washington -- After the same-sex marriage fights that roiled the 2004 elections and knocked gay rights groups on their heels, advocates seemed poised with the Democratic seizure of Congress in November to enact federal civil rights laws they have sought for nearly two decades.

But four hours before House passage Thursday of a federal hate crimes bill that has languished since 1991, the White House issued a threat to veto the bill, which would be just the third veto of the Bush presidency.

"It makes it apparent to a lot of people," said Rep. Barney Frank, a gay Massachusetts Democrat, "that as long as you have George Bush as president, nothing that tries to promote fairness for gay and lesbian people has any chance."

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