SF GateMoisés Kaufman
Thursday, July 12, 2007
In 2005, the FBI reported that 1,017 people were victims of violent hate crimes because of their sexual orientation -- and these are only the reported crimes. Race inspires the most hate-crime attacks, followed by religion. Sexual orientation motivates the third-most hate-crime attacks. Transgender Americans also face particularly savage attacks that are often poorly investigated.
Given this reality, it is very disturbing that President Bush now threatens to veto the Matthew Shepard Act.
