Sen. Kennedy’s hate crime amendment, approved by the U.S. House and Senate, was stripped from the National Defense Appropriations Act, H.R. 1585, midday Thursday.
Congressional Quarterly reports that support for the arms/hate bill bureau had so eroded in the House that Democrats were forty votes short of passage.
This great victory confirms that massive last-minute opposition from the evangelical and far right may well have powerfully helped defeat it.
Sens. Kennedy and Smith may attempt to revive it as stand-alone legislation after the first of the year.
But its rejection by Conference greatly increases the likelihood that we can defeat it again – if lovers of freedom continue to protest loudly!
Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization.
Let the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith teach you how they have saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians: http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp
Learn how ADL took away free speech in Canada and wants to steal it now in the U.S. Congress.
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