[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20231]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        HIDDEN HATE CRIMES BILL

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, we just passed a hate crimes bill. There is 
no Federal nexus, not sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the 
Constitution, but then again we have a Supreme Court that often does 
not recognize the Constitution as written. It rewrites it to suit its 
own whims.
  As a former judge, I was a tough sentencer when that came about, but 
I am telling you, 10 years from now, when your preacher or even a 
Muslim leader says something about the Bible or the Koran or something 
saying that this sexual preference is wrong and they get arrested, then 
there will be people in this body that say, you know what, maybe I 
should have voted against that amendment.

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