In the "Will Chutzpah Never Cease?" category: Watched a bit of the House debate earlier tonight on a push to add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes under Federal Hate Crimes legislation. And what did one Republican Congressman from Indiana have to say about it? That his constituents were probably wondering why Congress was being tied up with a divisive social issue while questions of national security were more urgent. To hear the guy, you'd never guess his party's been trying to ammend the constitution to disenfranchise gay folks...
9/29/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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