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Recently, the House overwhelmingly passed the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a bill that promises to extend protection from violent or discriminatory acts of hate to gay and lesbian Americans. 

Prominent leaders of the religious right have denounced this potentially life-saving legislation. Chuck Colson, Tony Perkins and James Dobson have waged a campaign describing hate crimes protections as an assault on their faith and values -- a campaign that has led President Bush to promise to veto the bill.

Such sentiments beg the question: does the religious right truly believe that hate speech is an integral component of their faith?  This bigoted notion is preposterous and simply goes to show just how out of touch the religious right is, not only with real American values, but with mainstream Christian values as well.

These men aren’t simply opposing core American values of equality, they’re perverting faith.  Fill out the form below to send them a letter and let them know they should be ashamed of themselves.

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