The Matthew Shepard Act could be abandoned by Congressional leaders unless we act immediately.Email Congress today and stand up against hate crimes.Senate leadership employed a commonplace strategy with this bill. They calculated that the only chance of the Matthew Shepard Act surviving Bush's veto pen was if it were attached to a "must-pass" Department of Defense bill. But now that Housa and Senate are reconciling their versions of the Do D bill it is under attack from anti-GLBT conservatives against hate crimes legislation,as well as progressive, pro- equality lawmakers who oppose some of the bills provisions for the war in Iraq
You know how hard we've worked to pass the Matthew Shepard Act. Don't back down now, not if you care about the safty of GLBT Americans
Ask your Senators and Representative to make sure the Department of Defense bill passes with the Matthew Shepard Act included
