From our friends at Queerty:

"Hate crimes laws should not give LGBTs a sense of safety.

They do not prevent anti-gay attacks. You think harsher punishments and federal funding for investigations factor into the mind of an attacker? They don't. So don't go around thinking Obama signing the Matthew Shepard Act makes you safer walking down the street. And nobody should be sending that message. Especially the gays."

Okay, so hate crime laws don't make us any safer, but they do endanger Constitutional protections for accused criminals.  And don't even get me started on the death penalty mandate in this doozy of a bill.  We can't even rely on death penalty opponents like the ACLU to speak out against it!  There's more than enough shame to spread around.  And we thought nobody could ignore the Constitution's protections of individual liberty better than Bush had.

[Insert here the apocryphal Benjamin Franklin quote about trading liberty for safety resulting in neither.]

So this all really was just a smokescreen to deal with the fact that a bunch of LGBT people who voted and contributed campaign money to Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and their cronies, thinking they'd repeal DOMA, DADT, the gay adoption ban in DC, etc., have finally realized the Democrats have no intention of keeping their campaign promises.  Fantastic.  It's like 1993 all over again.  How many times will our community fall for this trick from the Democrats?