Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) read a very long list of sex acts not covered by the hate crimes bill on the House floor Wednesday. One observer speculated that he "likely set a congressional record" for citing the most sex acts of any speech in Congress.
"I apologize to our transcriber, but I want to put into the record what we have to put up with in the Rules Committee," said Hastings. What followed was a very long and unusual list of sex acts not protected by the proposed bill.
Hasting was reading the list of sex acts with reference to an amendment introduced to the hate crimes bill that he asserted made a mockery of what was a determined effort by House Democrats to pass a federal hate crimes law.
Among the sex acts to be protected in the amendment included asphyxiphilia, necrophilia, toucherism and tranvestite fetishism.
"We can't legislate love," Hastings said. "But we can legislate against hate."
The House passed the hate crimes bill Thursday.
This video is from C-SPAN, broadcast Apr. 29, 2009.
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