I've warned you about this before (here, here, and here), but it's now in process - Ted Kennedy has attached a hate crimes amendment (S.A. 3035) to the House Defense Authorization Act for 2008 (H.R. 1585).
When Sen. John McCain questioned him about attaching this amendment to a defense bill, Kennedy blathered about defense spending dealing with terrorism, and that hate crimes is essentially domestic terrorism.
Sadly, the Senate passed the amendment 60-39 (Bond, Roberts, and Brownback voted NO, McCaskill voted YES).
As I understand it, the bill (with the hate crimes amendment) now goes to the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Members of the committee are here, if you want to contact them. I'll do some more poking around to see what can be done to stop this from becoming law, but for now, I'd say contact these committee members and ask them to strip this amendment out of the bill because it has nothing to do with defense spending.
More details to come as I find them...there should still be some options available, once we know what they are.
There's my two cents.
***UPDATE***
It sounds like Bush is planning to veto the bill because of this amendment, but the problem is that this could cost our military men and women currently fighting to keep America safe. Yet another instance of the Left disregarding our troops and playing despicable politics.
More updates as I find them...
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