It passed

The senate has passed the hate crime bill, the house had done so earlier this month.  It is expected to be signed into law by Mr. Obama.

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Your first amendment  rights will then be severely hindered.  Yes, change was promised and change is being delivered. 

But this is a matter of not believing what God said about change.

Romans 1
22   Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23   And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24   Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25   Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26   For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27   And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28   And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Did you see the three references to change in those passages.  The sodomites are all about change.
The Lord said In Prov 24:21,
21   My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

America this passage is for you - (found in Daniel 5)
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.