The homosexual movement gained a barrier-breaking victory Oct. 28 when President Obama signed into law a measure extending hate-crimes protections to homosexuals and transgender people.
The president's signature on the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act put into effect not only an annual bill for the U.S. military but enshrined into federal law the most significant legislative advance to date for homosexual activists. The Human Rights Campaign, America's largest homosexual organization, had described the measure as the country's "first major piece of civil rights legislation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people."
Obama reserved his remarks at the White House signing ceremony primarily for the focus of the bill, the Department of Defense's reauthorization. He commented only at the end on the hate-crimes provision. The president called that portion of the legislation a...