Sentence examples for extending hate from inspiring English sources

And he has opposed legislation extending hate crime laws to cover gays.

Corporate America has proven an unlikely force of change for transgender Americans, and lawmakers have started to realize the financial and political incentives to extending hate crime protections to them as a group.

Asked whether he would work to protect LGBT people from hate crimes, Sessions, who voted against extending hate crime laws to cover gays and lesbians, said simply, "The law has been passed, Congress has spoken.

Eleven years after Matthew Shepard's murder, President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard Act that extended hate crime protections to LGBTQ people.

(This graphic is part of an ongoing feature keeping track of bills that states are introducing to extend hate crime protections to police officers. It will be updated monthly or as the need arises).

Maryland became the first state to extend hate-crimes protection to homeless people.

(Mr. Racicot's hanging offense? He wanted to extend hate-crime laws to cover sexual orientation after Matthew Shepard was murdered in Wyoming).

His death galvanized a national movement to extend hate-crimes protection to gay men and lesbians, but it has also galvanized stiff opposition.

An effort to extend hate-crime legislation to include gay victims has produced a bitter backlash in some quarters: Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, sent a letter to clerics in his state arguing that it would be destructive to "faith, families and freedom".

The State House of Representatives killed a bill that would have extended the hate crimes law to protect gay men and lesbians.

The home secretary was forced to abandon the provisions, which would have extended race hate laws to cover religion, after peers twice voted against the measure.