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Palin is against expanding hate crime laws.
He voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and against expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation.
He flatly opposed expanding hate crime laws to include violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
And in 2010 you stated that expanding hate crimes protections to LGBT individuals was unwarranted, possibly unconstitutional.
Expanding hate crime protection has traditionally been considered a liberal social justice issue, but a Republican state lawmaker introduced Indiana's bill at the urging of Gov. Eric Holcomb, also a Republican.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy L. Austin Jr. said that the Justice Department would convene a meeting of religious groups in October to consider expanding hate crime tracking statistics to include Sikhs.
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As Richard Socarides notes, he was against expanding same-sex domestic-partner benefits and expanding hate-crime laws to include sexual orientation.
In 2009, President Barack Obama expanded hate crime legislation due to the deaths of Byrd and Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was kidnapped and beaten to death in Wyoming in 1998.
Opposition to expanded hate crimes legislation comes from right-wing opponents who say the law would limit a preacher's ability to speak from the pulpit.
In 2009, he railed against the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which expanded hate crime legislation to include those targeted because of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability by (falsely) claiming that such laws "quell religious expression".
He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' expanded hate crimes laws to include sexual orientation and gender, and made more than 30 policy changes that affect LGBT people on immigration, health care, foreign policy, housing and job discrimination.
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