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Welcome to Liberated Text's "Faith of Our Conservatives II"

It is a mark-up of the Congressional Records relevant to
H.R. 1913: Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act Of 2009 - To provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for other purposes..

H.R. 1913 was introduced in The House by John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI 14th) on April 2, 2009, and had 120 Cosponsors, all Democrats. It was released with House Report 111-086 (Part 1 and Part 2. The House passed H.R. 1913 on April 29, 2009, in Roll Call Vote 223 249 - 175 - 10. Not one Republican vote Aye.

The GOP opposition ran pretty much along the same lines as their opposition to the 2007 Hate crimes bill: H.R. 1592, which passed in the House, but stalled in The Senate after G.W. Bush stated he'd veto it. Unfortunately, the dissent wasn't anywhere near as absurdly funny in 2009, as it had been in 2007, although many of the disinformation points were reused: the legislation went beyond criminalizing violent acts and created speech/thought crime; this ran afoul of the 1st Amendment's Establishment Clause, because some religious leaders would end up indicted, simply because they believe that homosexuality is a sin; and that the Hate Crimes sentence enhancements were a violation of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause, since those convicted under it were given longer imprisonment, based solely upon their choice of victims. There were a couple of new angles thrown into the mix too.

George Orwell's works were a favorite reference:

• 4/28/2009 - Steve King (R-IA 5th) - 1984
• 4/28/2009 - Louie Gohmert (R-TX 1st) - Big Brother
• 4/29/2009 - Virginia Foxx (R-NC) - 1984 thought crime
• 4/29/2009 - Steve King (R-IA 5th) - 1984 'Nazis and the Russian Communists'
• 4/29/2009 - Ted Poe (R-TX 2nd) - Animal Farm
• 4/30/2009 - Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) - Animal Farm

A real nasty new tactic was proffered by Steve King (R-IA 5th). King, clouded Sexual Preference with Sexual Perversion, implying they were part of the same category. Is this what he learned on an Iowa farm growing up? On April 38, 2009, King said:

But if you look at the paraphilias that are produced by the American Psychology Association, here is what they have. And "paraphilia" is a powerful and persistent sexual interest other than typical sexual behavior. They have 547 specific sexual orientation proclivities, all of which are specially protected in this legislation, Mr. Speaker.

Here is another definition for sexual orientation. "Refers to feelings and self-concept, not behavior." But it might be behavior, because we know that the American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary says it is a behavior.

But here is a list of the particular paraphilias, you might call them proclivities, you might call them some other things, that are specially protected in this bill under the broad definition of sexual orientation. Some of these I just simply can't say here on this floor.

Asphyxophlia. That would be a fixation with, a proclivity for strangulation, starvation for oxygen.

Autogynephilia. That is someone who sees themselves as someone of the opposite sex, a man seeing himself as a woman or vice versa.

Bisexuality, which was defined in the committee as not part of it, is part of sexual orientation.

It goes on. I have a more concise list over here, Mr. Speaker, and that goes down the line of exhibitionism; incest; partialism, which is an obsession with a specific body part; masochism; sadism; scatalogia, that is obscene phone calls; toucherism, which is, you can imagine, someone who gropes; voyeurism; bestiality. The list of these things go on and on and on.

I offered the amendment, Mr. Speaker, that would have at least eliminated and given us a start, eliminated pedophilia. But pedophiles are specifically protected under this hate crimes legislation. Everything you can imagine is under there, every proclivity, every paraphilia is specially protected under this hate crimes legislation.

The next day, King had spun the unreferenced and rather dubious claim that the APA lists "547 specific sexual orientation proclivities", into 547 sexual perversions:

And now I go to the American Psychological Association, those people that have identified 547 different paraphilias, and they say sexual orientation is different from sexual behavior because it refers to feelings and self-concept. Individuals may or may not express that in their behaviors.

King thought his distortion was so nice, it deserved to be restated twice on April 29, 2009:

There are 547 specific paraphilias that are listed by the American Psychological Association. About 30 of them have been read into this Record. I've got a list of these 30 philias. Among them pedophilia--the obsession with children--which specifically was excluded from the bill when I offered the amendment by the Judiciary Committee.

Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL 23rd) properly categorized King as an asinine clown:

Mr. Speaker, I have been on the Rules Committee a considerable amount of time, both in the minority and in the majority, and I have seen things come to the Rules Committee that I thought were trivializing the process, but yesterday took the cake for me.

We had an amendment offered by one of our colleagues to this particular legislation. I guess it was done in a creative fashion, and certainly the author of it did spend some time looking in the dictionary or creating new terms. And I apologize to our transcriber, but I am going to put in the Record what we have to put up with in the Rules Committee.

"The term sexual orientation," this proposed amendment said, "as used in this act, or any amendments made by this act, does not include apotemnophilia, asphyxophilia, autogynephilia, coprophilia, exhibitionism, fetishism, frotteurism, gerontosexuality, incest, kleptophilia, klismaphilia, necrophilia, partialism, pedophilia, sexual masochism, sexual sadism, telephone scatalogia, toucherism, transgenderism, transsexual, transvestite, transvestic fetishism, urophilia, voyeurism, or zoophilia."

All I can say is the late-night comedians need to come up there with me sometime so that they can get into the spirit of spuriousness that comes there on certain occasions.