Boehner: ‘Just Plain Wrong' for Democrats to Attach Hate Crimes Measure to Defense Authorization Bill

(CNSNews.com) – GOP congressmen accuse House Democrats of “using” the military and an otherwise bipartisan defense-funding bill as a means to ram through a key piece of legislation on the homosexual activist agenda – expanding the definition of hate crimes to include sexual orientation.

The House voted of 281 to 146 Thursday afternoon to make it a federal hate crime to attack homosexuals and others because of sexual orientation. The legislation also creates a brand new category of hate crime: attacking U.S. military personnel because they serve in the military.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the move amounted to creating a “thought crimes” statute...