{"id":10656,"date":"2009-10-30T10:21:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=10656"},"modified":"2009-10-30T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:24:00","slug":"hate-crime-legislation-significantly-expands-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/10\/30\/hate-crime-legislation-significantly-expands-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Crime Legislation Significantly Expands Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-103009\/2009_10_30_nipper.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-103009\/2009_10_30_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40% src=\"http:\/\/i2.photobucket.com\/albums\/y49\/pspauld\/BlogPix\/shepardbyrd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>On Wednesday President Barack Obama also signed into law new federal hate crimes legislation attached to the Pentagon budget. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act will broaden protections to include people violently attacked on the basis of real or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and\/or disability. The legislation will also strengthen existing protections for racial, religious, ethnic, color and national origin categories. Obama, upon signing the bill named for a gay college student murdered in Wyoming and a black man dragged to death from a truck in Texas more than ten years ago, said, \u201cNo one in America should be forced to look over their shoulder because of who they are or because they live with a disability.\u201d Right-wing opponents of the bill cited their opposition to the extended protections for LGBT individuals on the grounds of supposed free speech infringements. The Democratic majority in Congress, however, was able to pass it, based in part on its attachment to the Pentagon budget. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST:Rev. Darlene Nipper, Deputy Executive Director with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program On Wednesday President Barack Obama also signed into law new federal hate crimes legislation attached to the Pentagon budget. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act will broaden protections to include people violently attacked on the basis of real or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and\/or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}