{"id":1548,"date":"2013-01-06T21:25:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2013-01-06T21:25:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:25:31","slug":"the-combination-of-homophobia-racism-xenophobia-and-misogyny-is-this-how-republicans-want-to-be-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/01\/06\/the-combination-of-homophobia-racism-xenophobia-and-misogyny-is-this-how-republicans-want-to-be-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"The combination of homophobia, racism, xenophobia, and misogyny: Is this how Republicans want to be seen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is really shameful. The Violence Against Women’s Act, the most uncontroversial law on the books (you’d think), has been allowed to expire. How could this happen?<\/a> Does anyone want to be seen as being on the side of abusers?<\/p>\n

Back in April, the Senate approved VAWA reauthorization fairly easily, with a 68 to 31 vote. The bill was co-written by a liberal Democrat (Vermont’s Pat Leahy) and a conservative Republican (Idaho’s Mike Crapo), and seemed on track to be reauthorized without much of a fuss, just as it was in 2000 and 2005.<\/p>\n

But House Republicans insisted the bill is too supportive of immigrants, the LGBT community, and Native Americans — and they’d rather let the law expire than approve a slightly expanded proposal. Vice President Biden, who helped write the original law, tried to persuade House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to keep the law alive, but the efforts didn’t go anywhere.<\/p>\n

And so, for the first time since 1994, the Violence Against Women Act is no more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The new congress should take up this matter and it can’t come a moment too soon. But for all those wondering why women and minorities voted the way they did, well, there you have your answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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