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Harry Reid, our brave Democratic majority leader, slipped the hate-crimes bill into the defense authorization bill to avoid having to have our senators consider the controversial hate-crimes legislation on its own.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s for good reason that our Democratic legislators wanted to hide under a rock while passing this terrible piece of legislation. It may help them with the far-left wing of their party. But weakening and damaging our country is not something to be proud of. And that is exactly what this new hate-crimes law does.<\/p>\n<p>The bill adds on extra penalties to violent crimes when it is deemed they were motivated by gender, sexual orientation or disabilities. 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