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WWJD? Incite Hate Crimes Against LGBT People, according to this "Pastor"

The furious explosion of nutjobs over the passage of the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd... more

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Outrage Over Gay Bar Raids

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Obama signs Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law

Obama signs Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law. http://bit.ly/gtsKh President... more

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Synagogue shooting likely not Hate Crime...update

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Obama signs LGBT hate crimes bill into law

President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the first major piece of federal gay rights legislation, a milestone that activists compared to the passage of 1960s civil-rights legislation empowering blacks.

The new law adds acts of violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to the list of federal hate crimes. Gay-rights activists voiced hope that the Obama administration would advance more issues, including legislation to bar workplace discrimination, allow military service and recognize same-sex marriages.

Congress passed the hate crimes protections as an unlikely amendment to this year's Defense Authorization Act. Obama, speaking at an emotional evening reception with supporters of the legislation, said that more than 12,000 hate crimes had been reported the past decade based on sexual orientation.

The expanded federal hate crimes law was added to a $680 billion defense authorization bill that Obama signed at a packed White House ceremony.

The hate crimes measure was named for Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming teenager who died after being kidnapped and severely beaten in October 1998, and James Byrd Jr., an African-American man dragged to death in Texas the same year.

Shepard's mother, Judy, was among those at the ceremony that also included Vice President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Attorney General Eric Holder and leading members of Congress and the Pentagon, who were on hand for the appropriations bill signing.

To loud applause, Obama hailed the hate crimes measure in the bill as a step toward change to "help protect our citizens from violence based on what they look like, who they love, how they pray."

He cited the work of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and others "to make this day possible."

Several religious groups have expressed concern that a hate crimes law could be used to criminalize conservative speech relating to subjects such as abortion or homosexuality. However, Holder has said that any federal hate-crimes law would be used only to prosecute violent acts based on bias, not to prosecute speech based on controversial racial or religious beliefs.

Former President George W. Bush had threatened to veto a similar measure, but Obama brought a reversal of that policy to the White House.

When the bill won final congressional approval last week, Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese called the hate crimes measure "our nation's first major piece of civil rights legislation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people."

Earlier this month, Obama told the Human Rights Campaign, the country's largest gay rights group, that the nation still needs to make significant changes to ensure equal rights for gays and lesbians.

More @ linkPresident Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the first major piece of federal gay rights... more

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Obama to Add Gays into Hate Crimes Law

A perspective on the latest addition to the Hate Crimes law.

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More immigrants flee thier country due to sexual orientation

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- For weeks, Nathaniel Cunningham and his boyfriend secretly... more

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Courtroom hate-crime killer on trial in Dresden

Security is higher than ever in Dresden as the German hate-crime of the year is put to... more

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Hate crimes bill goes to Obama for signature

Ten years following the execution style murder of Matthew Shepherd, the bill named... more

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Hate crimes bill goes to Obama for signature

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate passed groundbreaking legislation Thursday that would... more

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Nearly All GOP Senators Oppose Defense Bill With Hate-Crimes Amendment

It's not easy to get 35 Republican senators to vote against defense spending -- unless... more

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Anti-Defamation League defames David Dees as anti-Semitic 'conspiratorial artist'

The Jewish extremist organization masquerading as a "civil rights organization", the... more

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Hate Crime Suspect's Bud: Blame the Victim

A friend of one of the suspects in last weekend’s brutal hate crime in Queens, N.Y.,... more

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'No end to the war between me and the f*ggots,' Buju tells Muta - JamaicaObserver.com

Homophobic Reggae Artist Buju Banton's latest statement "This is a fight, and as I... more

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New Justice Official: I'll Fight Anti-Gay Discrimination

The Obama administration's point man on civil rights said Wednesday he will seek to... more

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Brutal gay bashing caught on tape

A Queens, New York man is fighting for his life because to men chose to attack him... more

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Boehner Hate Crimes Position: Sexual Orientation A Choice But Religion Isn't

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'Ten Years Later,' The Matthew Shepard Story Retold

"The Laramie Project — one of the most-performed plays of the last decade — is based on the true story of Matthew Shepard, the young man who, in October 1998, was savagely beaten and left to die in Laramie, Wyo. Almost instantly, Shepard's name became a kind of grim rallying cry for those drawing attention to hate crimes committed against gays.

Now there's an epilogue to The Laramie Project, and tonight more than a hundred theaters around the country will perform readings of the new play. Together with the first one, it constitutes a powerful version of Matthew Shepard's story.

But it's not the only version — and that's a big part of why the epilogue exists.

Matthew Shepard's savage killing was used to strengthen the argument for hate-crimes legislation. But meanwhile, another version of his story was gathering steam.

Six years after the crime, the ABC newsmagazine 20/20 set out to debunk the idea that Shepard was murdered because he was gay. Like The Laramie Project, the one-hour episode included interviews with Shepard's friends, as well as investigators assigned to the case. ABC's Elizabeth Vargas interviewed Shepard's killers, Aaron McKinney and Russ Henderson, both serving life sentences.

Shepard, 20/20 reported, may have used methamphetamine. The report said that McKinney had been a dealer. "Meth is what made the world go around in Laramie," a friend of McKinney's and a former dealer told Vargas.

20/20 also reported that McKinney and Henderson had been on a meth binge in the days before meeting Shepard. And prosecutor Cal Rerucha told 20/20 that "the methamphetamine just fueled this point where there was no control. So, it was a horrible, horrible, horrible murder. But it was a murder that was driven by drugs."

Playwright Moises Kaufman believes the 20/20 story was "terrible journalism" that "changed the nature of the dialogue." So one of his goals with the new Laramie Project epilogue was to debunk the 20/20 story.

Kaufman and his Tectonic colleagues went back to Laramie last year, re-interviewing many of the people they'd met a decade ago — as well as talking to some new sources.

"One of the things we do in the play," says Kaufman, "is we go back and ask investigators ... and we go back over trial transcripts, and we prove that it was a hate crime."

The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later includes the comments of Rob Debree from the Albany County Sheriff's Office in Laramie.

"We've proven that there were no drugs on board with McKinney and Henderson — just none," Debree declares. And what about the claim that Shepard's murder was a robbery and drug deal gone bad? "That's some kind of massive denial," one openly gay Laramie resident tells Tectonic Theater.

Laramie police commander Dave O'Malley, who also appears in the 20/20 episode, says: "It angered me more than anything the things [ABC] didn't say — the things they left out."""The Laramie Project — one of the most-performed plays of the last decade — is... more

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Rep. Gohmert gives another ignorant rant

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Israel has nuked itself?

UK, September 17, 2009 (Pal Telegraph)- Could anyone imagine as a result of your own actions you are killing your own troops and your own population? This is now the case in Israel.

Many weapons used by the IDF in Gaza contained uranium components and upon impact set off huge volumes of aerosol particles that then drifted back over the border into Israel with devastating results.

It has been some time since the Israelis bombed Lebanon and the Gaza Strip and in both cases the weapons used left behind a trial of misery for all those that lived downwind. We can now start to see the results of those actions and I must say the term "What goes around comes around" rings true in the ears of the residents of Israel. Some interesting health statements have been released that prove when you play with dirty weapons it can all come back to you. It would now appear that we have a situation whereby Israelis are killing Israelis.

In May this year we saw the following headline appear in the Haaretz:
"Quality of Israeli sperm down 40% in past decade" The quality of Israeli sperm has declined alarmingly in the last decade, according to recent research conducted at Jerusalem's Hadassah University Hospital, Mount Scopus. The cause for the decline is not known, but it's believed by some researchers to be connected to the exposure of children and pregnant women to hormones and other contaminants in food and water.

This month started to see some more statistics appear out of Israel which again indicates that contamination by DU may well be the cause. The next headline was even more alarming: "More women diagnosed with cancer in Israel than in Europe" Israel's health ranking is dropping compared to those of developed European nations, the Israel Medical Association said yesterday. Israel lags behind the European average in disease prevention.

The report gave a clear message that something in the environment may be causing these dramatic increases. The comparison gave the number of new female cancer patients as follows: 290 per 100,000 compared to an average of 179 in Europe. The report went of the say that for men the average was much the same but again was showing a steady rise since 2005.

When you think you have heard the last of the bad news you are then confronted with another shocking headline from the IMA: Hodgkin's lymphoma is a distinct primary solid tumour of the immune system that shows wide variation in incidence among different geographic regions and among various races. It was previously suggested that susceptible people living in certain parts of Israel had a higher risk of HL because of exposure to unidentified environmental factors in these regions. Compared with other parts of Israel, these regions were characterized by a higher proportion of Israeli-born Jews.

A total of 4812 Jewish cases of HL were reported to the Israel Cancer Registry during the study period 1960-2005. There has been a persistent increase in the age-standardized incidence rate of HL, all subtypes pooled, in Israeli-born Jews in both men and women. The age distribution pattern in both genders was bimodal in all periods. The highest incidence was observed in the 20-24 year age group: for women (9.13 per 100,000 per year) during the period 1988-1996, and for men (6.60 per 100,000 per year) during the period 1997-2005.UK, September 17, 2009 (Pal Telegraph)- Could anyone imagine as a result of your own... more

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WWJD? Incite Hate Crimes Against LGBT People, according to this "Pastor"

Outrage Over Gay Bar Raids

Obama signs Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law

Synagogue shooting likely not Hate Crime...update

Obama signs LGBT hate crimes bill into law

Obama to Add Gays into Hate Crimes Law

More immigrants flee thier country due to sexual orientation

Courtroom hate-crime killer on trial in Dresden

Hate crimes bill goes to Obama for signature

Hate crimes bill goes to Obama for signature

Nearly All GOP Senators Oppose Defense Bill With Hate-Crimes Amendment

Anti-Defamation League defames David Dees as anti-Semitic 'conspiratorial artist'

Hate Crime Suspect's Bud: Blame the Victim

'No end to the war between me and the f*ggots,' Buju tells Muta - JamaicaObserver.com

New Justice Official: I'll Fight Anti-Gay Discrimination

Brutal gay bashing caught on tape

Boehner Hate Crimes Position: Sexual Orientation A Choice But Religion Isn't

'Ten Years Later,' The Matthew Shepard Story Retold

Rep. Gohmert gives another ignorant rant

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