For love and war.

Gay Americans have as much at stake in the Iraq war Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars.

Iraq War
or Second Persian Gulf War

Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S. as anyone--and now, perhaps more, with "the inclusion of the Matthew Shepard Act The Matthew Shepard Act (offically, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 or LLEHCPA), HR 1592 is a proposed federal bill that would expand the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or , which would expand federal hate-crimes law to cover sexual orientation sexual orientation
n.
The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. , in the Pentagon reauthorization bill. President Bush has promised to veto the hate-crimes bill, which passed the House this spring, so its Senate cosponsors Ted Kennedy For other persons named Ted Kennedy, see Ted Kennedy (disambiguation).
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (born February 22, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. and Gordon Smith attached it to the war-funding bill--something the commander in chief would have to sign. Partisan bickering bick·er
intr.v. bick·ered, bick·er·ing, bick·ers
1. To engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel; squabble. See Synonyms at argue.

2. over a timetable for America's withdrawal from Iraq quashed that plan, as Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid refused to hold a vote in hopes of gaining more support for his side down the road.

When Congress resumes this September--and the military's highly anticipated progress report on the "surge" in Iraq is released mid month--it'll be anyone's guess what's in store for either bill. The Matthew Shepartd Act has never passed the two chambers of Congress in one session. Will it finally make history this fall and become law? Or will it be just another casualty of an unpopular war?

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Title Annotation:	The Advocate REPORT
Publication:	The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:	Sep 11, 2007
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