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Senate OKs Bill Giving Gays Hate-Crime Protection

Named for Shepard, it now heads to Obama

By the Associated Press

Posted Oct 22, 2009 7:32 PM CDT

(AP) – Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved today and sent to President Obama. The measure, on the congressional agenda for a decade, expands current...   Read full story »

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