🚀 go-pugleaf

Anonymous wrote:

> 
> 
> Boycott the businesses listed as 'partners' in this illegal legislative agenda, and write 
> them to let them know why.

Why would we do that?

I don't see this as being at all illegal, as it does after all proceed
directly from the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which has a clause
stating:

"... nor deny to any person under its jurisdiction the equal protection of
the laws."

Note that clause 5 of the 14th Amendment says: "The Congress shall have
power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this
article."

Other remarks interspersed.

> 
> Bill would include sexual orientation in hate crimes statute
>  3.14 a.m. ET (715 GMT) April 6, 1999
> 
> By Kevin Galvin, Associated Press
> 
> WASHINGTON (AP) President Clinton is asking Congress to expand federal hate 
> crime laws to include offenses based on sexual orientation.

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> 
> The partnership will involve AT&T, Court TV, Cable in the Classroom, the
> National Middle Schools Association and the Anti-Defamation League working
> with the Justice and Education departments to develop curricula to combat
> intolerance.
> 
> Clinton was announcing the initiatives today with religious, education and law
> enforcement leaders at a Roosevelt Room ceremony, White House officials said.
> 
> "The president is signing this directive to increase public awareness and
> information about hate crimes among young people and doing whatever he can in
> his power to advance this cause while we wait for Congress to act,'' said 
> Bruce Reed, the White House director of public policy.
> 
> The idea for the middle schools program grew out of a White House conference
> on hate crimes that generated a lot of anecdotal information about ethnic and
> racial insensitivities among school children.
> 
> The aim, said a White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity, is to "nip 
> intolerance in the bud'' by educating children about its consequences.

An excellent idea. It would be an excellent example of American core civic
values to impress upon the impressionable that there is no such thing as an
"unacceptable minority", with the definite exception of the violent, and the
possible exceptions of spammers and internet trolls.


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