Arkansans Are "Outing" Senator Lincoln's Increasingly Leftist Voting Record

I understand ads are being run in some areas of Arkansas revealing Senator Blanche Lincoln's voting record. Below are several letters published in the newspaper concerning her increasingly leftist voting record.

Letter to Editor:
Just how well is Sen. Blanche Lincoln representing the values of Arkansans ? She just voted to keep the section of the immigration bill that allows immediate legal status for 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens. Mark Pryor voted to drop it.

Lincoln is also a Senate co-sponsor of the hate crime bill that passed the House and is awaiting a vote in the Senate. Three of Arkansas’ four representatives voted against the bill: Mike Ross, Marion Berry and John Boozman. Our state Legislature has voted against a hate crime bill nine times.

Lincoln in 2006 received an 89 percent rating from the largest gay and lesbian organization in the country, Human Rights Campaign, a rating much higher than our four representatives. Berry and Boozman received a zero, Ross 25 percent and Vic Snyder 75 percent. Lincoln’s rating with HRC increased from 57 percent in 2002 to 89 percent in 2006. She also received a 75 percent rating from the ACLU in 2006, up from 43 percent in 2000. In contrast, Boozman had an 18 percent rating.

According to National Review, the ACLU defended the North American Man-Boy Love Association after two convicted pedophiles accessed information on NAMBLA’s Web site and used it to seduce, rape and murder a 10-year-old boy, then sued the city of San Diego to expel the Boy Scouts from Balboa Park, calling them a religious group. Just how many Arkansans would vote like Lincoln, 75 percent of the time with the ACLU and 89 percent with the Human Rights Campaign ?
IRIS STEVENS / Jonesboro

Letter to Editor:
Senator Lincoln is co-sponsor of the US hate crime bill that recently passed the House. Doesn't Lincoln believe that we are all created equal and deserve equal protection? Giving more punishment for violating one person than another and giving federal protection to certain classes, as the hate crime bill does, is not equal treatment. (See note 1 below)

The Republicans made this point when they submitted several amendments to add other classes of people to the US hate crime law. The separate amendments proposed that the following groups be added to the bill: witnesses in judicial proceedings, members of the Armed Forces, senior citizens, victims of random acts of violence, law enforcement officers, and children; but the Democrats turned them down one by one.

Just which of these groups does Senator Lincoln think needs less protection than homosexuals? The latest hate crime bill expands protection for sexual orientation, and Lincoln voted more than once to add that language to the bill.
The Republicans even tried to add an amendment to define "sexual orientation." It was voted down as well. If homosexuals are born with homosexual orientation, wouldn't the same be true for pedophiles. Just recently in an Arkansas pedophile case, a prominent psychiatrist and the defense attorney both testified that the offender suffered from homosexual pedophilia, as well as mental illness, and was unable to control his actions. Until 1973 homosexuality was considered a mental disorder, not sexual orientation. Senator Lincoln, just how long will it be before pedophilia will be considered sexual orientation? (See entries on number 4 below)

Bobby L. Hester

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