Obama Passes New Hate Crimes Law
I found this editorial quit interesting in so much that it touches on a subject matter that affects millions of Americans nationwide. This editorial has enough information to help identify why the law that was passed was named Mathew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. It also explained that this law was expanding on the 1969 United States Federal Hate Crimes Law to include crimes committed by a victims actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
I agree with Ms. Zeiss on the importance of this law being passed. It is time that we as nation stood up and protected all our citizens, no matter what religion, race, creed, gender, disability or any other difference that we may have. Every individual deserves to be treated with respect and have equal protection under the law.
Like Ms. Zeiss, I can only hope that this is the beginning of our nation taking the firm and decisive steps to insure that all its people can live and feel that they too matter. We as a nation must protect all our citizens. We cannot be a country where a person is afraid to be who they are because they do not fit into someone else’s views on how a person should live their lives. We are all different individuals and as such we have the unalienable rights given to us by God and our founding fathers to the pursue of happiness.
The only thing that would have made reading this editorial more helpful would have been if Ms. Zeiss had actually typed out what the abbreviations LGBT, DOMA, DADT and ENDA stand for and embed a link to these groups.
Up until the last paragraph I was following along, but I got lost in all the abbreviations that were unknown to me. Other than that I found Ms. Zeiss editorial interesting and I enjoyed reading it.
by: Genoveva Nannapaneni
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