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SENATE PASSES HATE BILL!
YET DEMOCRATS COMPROMISE
YET DEMOCRATS COMPROMISE
By Rev. Ted Pike
July 16, 2009
Sen. Patrick Leahy’s hate crimes bill, amending the National Defense
Authorization Act, effectively passed the Senate tonight at about eleven o’clock
p.m. EDT. A call for cloture, or termination of debate after thirty hours, was
passed 63 to 28. Clearly, the Senate majority had spoken. Once cloture is
invoked there is usually little more that can be done to resist.
There was no floor debate. A complete end run had been done around adequate
Senate hearings, a Mark-up session and Rules Committee debate. Total Senate
debate of the hate bill amounted to little more than a brief “kangaroo” hearing
in the Senate Judiciary Committee several weeks ago. Witnesses, which included
Attorney General Eric Holder were stacked 4 to 2 against conservatives.
Passage occurred despite massive protest from the Christian/conservative
right (even more than yesterday) with only the very smallest percentage of calls
today in favor of the hate bill.
Yet Protest Made a Difference
Earlier Thursday evening the Senate finally assembled a quorum and voted
down, 62 to 29, Sen. Hatch’s amendment. It would require the federal government
to conduct a study to determine if the states are not enforcing the law against
violent hate crimes. Citing Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent testimony in
Judiciary, Hatch confirmed that states are already “doing a good job.”
Then Senator Sam Brownback submitted an amendment which would include in
the hate bill the most specific statement (part of the “Religious Freedom Act,”
passed in 1993 by Congress 97-3) that only speech that threatens imminent
incitement of violence will be punishable under the hate bill. Speech that falls
short of such actual incitement will be protected.
Sen. Leahy earlier said he had no problem with inclusion of Brownback’s
amendment. Although he voted against it, the amendment passed overwhelmingly
78-13. Approval of Brownback’s amendment is a great victory, testimony to the
pressure put on liberals even in the past two days. Most Senate Democrats were
clearly eager to mollify, to some degree, the overwhelming anger at the hate
bill from their constituents this week. Their House counterparts, under far less
pressure eleven weeks ago, would never have made such a concession.
Inclusion of Brownback’s amendment should help safeguard free speech from
the pulpit or airwaves, except in the cases of the most blatant, immediate
incitement to violence. It helps neutralize the extremely threatening language
of the 1968 hate crimes law, Title 18, sec. 2A, which says if anyone “induces,”
through speech, commission of a violent hate crime the speaker will be tried “as
a principal” alongside the active offender in federal court.
S. 909 remains a massive invasion of state’s rights in law enforcement in
violation of the 10th Amendment. It violates the 14th Amendment by exalting
certain groups, including homosexual pedophiles, above the majority. But, thanks
to massive pressure on liberal Senators, especially during the last two days,
and the initiative of Sen. Brownback, at least the 1st Amendment may not be as
imminently threatened as before.
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