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(PRWEB) November 2, 2009 -- Ali Ghalib, head Imam of the Gay Mosque, is thrilled along with other members of the gay community, in celebrating the president's recent signing of of the expanded Hate Bill which will gets its funding from the $680 billion dollar defense authorization bill.
This Bill is named after a homosexual teenager, Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr, an African-American, who was dragged to death.
"With this improved hate crimes bill, the gay mosque will flourish in our communities making a better life for gay and happy Muslims everywhere in this blessed land, the United States of America. Blesses be America!" Imam Ghalib said.
"This truly shows that the U.S. wants to help keep religion free," Imam Ali said.
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During debate in the House Tuesday on the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx said the 1998 murder of Shepard wasn’t a hate crime and shouldn’t be used to justify a hate crimes bill.
Foxx said Shepard was killed during a robbery.
“The hate crimes bill that’s called the Matthew Shepard Bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay,” Foxx said. “This – the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it’s really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.”
She made the remarks while Shepard’s mother, Judy Shepard, looked on from the House gallery.
West Hollywood, California - On June 4, 2008, “Grey’s Anatomy” star T.R. Knight will join the Matthew Shepard Foundation to help kick off National Gay-Pride month with a symbolic dusk commitment ceremony at the famed West Hollywood hotspot, The Abbey.
At 8pm, couples from around the nation will “tie the knot” in what maybe one of the last “symbolic” ceremonies in California thanks to the State’s Supreme Court ruling invalidating the ban on gay marriages.
The event will be officiated by the Mayor of West Hollywood and witnessed by Judy Shepard.
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