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were forced to conform to Clear Channel policies
which do not include partner benefits.
The foundation was unable to rate Clear
Channel Communications because the company
did not respond to the survey and the foundation
was unable to find the necessary information.
Amgen, Inc. and Fannie Mae, both , of which
scored 71 percent, and MBNA Corp., which
scored 43 percent, all lost points because their
associated foundations donated to anti-GLBT
organizations. The Amgen Foundation and the
MBNA Foundation both gave general-purpose
grants to Focus on the Family, and the Fannie
Mae Foundation gave money to the Traditional
Values Coalition to train church leaders to pro-
vide homeowner education in the greater Los
Angeles area.
The Fluman Rights Campaign Foundation’s
report noted that 38 percent of the rated compa-
nies have improved their scores since the
Corporate Equality Index began in 2002 The
number companies including gender identity
and/or expression in their non-discrimination
policies has risen by 347 percent, from 17 in
2002 to 59 this year.
The average score of the companies rated in
the index has gone up from 57 percent in 2002 to
79 percent this year.
HATE CRIMES
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munity. Federal hate crimes prevention legisla-
tion is the right thing to do and it is long over-
due.”
In her appeal for support of the motion, Pelosi
cited the high-profile hate crime murders of
African American James Byrd in Texas, gay col-
lege student Matthew Shepard in Wyoming and
transgender teen Gwen Araujo in California.
“When violence is visited upon people
because of who they are, the color of their skin,
how they worship or who they love, we all suf-
fer,” Pelosi said. “When this happens to one of
us, it happens to all of us.”
If the amendment is passed by the House it
would allow for federal assistance in the investi-
gation and prosecution of hate crimes and for
jurisdiction when any state’s law omits the cate-
gones of gender identity, sexual onentafion and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was seen as the
disability prime mover 0 pate cnmes legtslatmn Tuesday.
The Senate passed a similar amendment on Senate members who support the hate crime
June 15. enhancement measure. The House vote saw 31
House Majority Leader Tom Delay, a Republicans in favor of the legislation and the
Republican from Texas, has refused to allow a Senate recorded 18 Republicans voting yes.
vote on passing the amendment. “The radical right has been using scare tactics
Human Rights Campaign president Cheryl as a way of stopping this legislation, even though
Jacques praised Pelosi and her colleagues for it has overwhelming support from the American
passing the motion. people,” Guerriero said. “We applaud those GOP
“We laud Congress for this vote,” Jacques members of Congress who had the courage to
said. “We urge conference committee members vote in favor of basic fairness and common
to take it to heart — keep the federal hate crimes decency.”
bill in conference committee.” Hate crime laws provide for more severe
In 2000 the conference committee stripped the penalties than basic laws addressing homicides,
hate crime prevention provisions from a assaults and other violations. States’ laws rou-
Department of Defense bill, despite its strong finely include race, ethnicity and religion but
bipartisan support. The House had instructed its some exclude sexual orientation and gender
conference members to support the measure in identity.
those deliberations also. Federal law is currently limited to protected
Log Cabin Republicans executive director activities such as voting.
Patrick Guerriero praised Republican House and Continued on Page 27
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