[ SENDER'S NOTE - "The more homosexuals can get special protections signed into law, the more confidence they obtain in trying to silence Bible believing churches and individuals." ] SENATORS PASS ANTI-CHRISTIAN HATE CRIME BILL On Tuesday, June 20, the U.S. Senate approved two hate crime amendments to the Defense Authorization bill, S. 2549. The amendment offered by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) passed by a vote of 57 to 42, and Senator Orrin Hatch's (R-UT) amendment passed by a vote of 50-49. Senator Ted Kennedy's hate crime amendment creates special victim categories for homosexuals and even transsexuals (Cross-dressers, drag queens, etc). The more homosexuals can get special protections signed into law, the more confidence they obtain in trying to silence Bible believing churches and individuals. Passing this Hate Crime legislation in the Senate is just one more step that the homosexuals have won in their vigorous attempts to bring homosexuality into mainstream America for approval and acceptance. This agenda will continue be vocalized especially in the public school, where parents even now are chided by school districts if they express opposition to their child being taught by a homosexual or transsexual teacher. In addition, the bill provides funding for curriculum which teaches children that Christians are perpetrators as hate. Other hate crime curriculum designed for children as young as five years old teaches that "People who have always felt as if they were in the body of the wrong sex are called 'transsexual.' Some transsexual kids grow up and get sex change operations and some don't." In addition it poses a major threat to Constitutional powers given to states to prosecute their own crimes. The amendment would dramatically expand the federal civil rights law that makes it a federal crime to interfere violently with another person's exercise of a federally protected activity (such as voting, attending school, etc) because of that person's race, religion or ethnicity. Senator Kennedy's amendment would broaden the current concept of hate crimes to include violent acts committed on the basis of the victim's sexual preference, gender or disability. In addition, it would authorize federal prosecution of bias-motivated attacks even when the victim is not engaged in a federally protected activity. This expansion of federal jurisdiction is unnecessary. Every violent crime is a hate crime. No crime victim should be entitled to greater protection than another. Furthermore, "hate crimes" account for a small number of total crimes. In fact, an American is three times more likely to be killed by lightning than to be murdered in a hate crime. Senator Kennedy's hate crime bill promotes unequal treatment and justice for victims of violent crime and they put federal prosecutors in the inappropriate position of investigating the beliefs and motivations of criminal defendants. *****TAKE ACTION!!!***** It is IMPERATIVE that you express your opinion about how your two U.S. Senators voted on the Kennedy hate crime amendment. You can find out how they voted by calling their office or visiting www.traditionalvalues.org Call your U.S. Representative and urge them to convey to House Leadership the importance of directing their Conferees to reject the Kennedy Hate Crime Amendment in the Defense Authorization bill when they meet to iron out the differences between the House and Senate Defense bills. The following is break down of the Hate Crime vote. Contact any of the senators listed that represent your state. Particularly contact the ones that are starred. Republican Senators who voted in favor of the Kennedy Hate Crime Amendment: Senator Conrad Burns (Montana) 202-224-2644 Senator Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island) 202-224-2921 Senator Susan Collins (Maine) 202-224-2523 *Senator George Voinovich (Ohio) 202-224-3353 *Senator Mike DeWine (Ohio) 202-242-2315 Senator Jim Jeffords (Vermont) 202-224-5141 *Senator Richard Lugar (Indiana) 202-224-4814 *Senator Connie Mack (Florida) 202-224-5274 *Senator William Roth (Delaware) 202-224-2441 Senator Gordon Smith (Oregon) 202-224-3753 Senator Olympia Snowe (Maine) 202-224-5344 Senator Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania) 202-224-4254 *Senator Ted Stevens (Alaska) 202-224-3004 Also, please call Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) at 202-224-3954 and thank him for his courageous vote. 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