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Hate Crimes Bill in Limbo
Capitol Hill sources say the Local Law
Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, dubbed
the Matthew Shepard bill, could remain in legal
limbo until September or longer.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she
expects the House to bring the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act to vote in September.
Gay rights leaders expected the Senate would
vote to approve the Shepard bill earlier this month
as an amendment to the National Defense
Authorization Act. But Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid, D-Nev., pulled the defense bill from the
floor July 18 after it became entangled in a debate
concerning the Iraq war, raising questions about its
use as a “vehicle” for the hate crimes bill.
The legislation would give the federal govern­
ment authority to prosecute hate crimes based on
a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, gen­
der or disability. A spokesman said Reid supports
the bill and is committed to arranging for a vote
later this year. He said Reid would discuss a possi­
ble alternate vehicle for the bill if the defense bill
remains stalled because of war amendments.
Capitol Hill observers have said President Bush
would be much less likely to veto an important
defense authorization bill solely because it con­
tained a hate crimes bill as an amendment.
However, Bush vowed to veto the defense bill if
it includes an amendment calling for troop with­
drawals in Iraq. Thus if Reid and Senate Democrats
succeed in breaking the Republican filibuster of
their anti-war amendment, it would ensure a Bush
veto of a defense bill expected to include a hate
crimes amendment.
Democrats have acknowledged they don’t have
the two-thirds vote needed to override a veto.
FLORIDA
Fort Lauderdale Mayor
Asked to Resign
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Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle issued an
apology July 24—not for reportedly inflammatory
statements he made about the city’s gay population
but to parents and children for not cracking down
on gay sex in public bathrwms soon enough.
Naugle said he was sorry for being unaware that
a park in Broward County was named as a top
locale on a cruising Web site. He also apologized for
not knowing that Broward was leading the nation
in new cases of AIDS, according to health depart­
ment statistics.
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This “apology” was met with protests from
hundreds of supporters and members of Unite Fort
Lauderdale.
When pressed with questions about his
comments about men having sexual encounters in
public restrooms by a coalition called Flush Naugle,
the mayor left the podium. This was followed by
a protest calling for him to step down.
Naugle has said he will complete the two years
left in his final term as mayor. Unite Fort
Lauderdale, however, is urging the City
Commission to launch censure proceedings against
the mayor to have him removed.
NEW MEXICO
Massachusetts Welcomes
New Mexicans to Marry
Massachusetts officials ruled last month that
same-sex couples from New Mexico are eligible to
marry in their state, after a decision that New
Mexico does not explicitly ban same-sex marriage. .
The ruling was issued after the state’s gay rights
group asked the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health, which oversees the state’s Registry
of Vital Records and Statistics, to clarify whether
the state would authorize the marriage of gay
couples from New Mexico.
Rhode Island, which also does not explicitly
ban same-sex marriage, was the only other state
whose gay residents can marry legally in
Massachusetts.
However, neither Rhode Island nor New
Mexico will recognize the marriages.
The court ruled that gay couples from other
states could not marry in Massachusetts if their
state explicitly banned same-sex marriage.
According to a spokesman for New Mexico’s
attorney general, no person or agency in New
Mexico has challenged the legality of a same-sex
marriage performed in Massachusetts.
Two bills that would have banned same-sex
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