Word: genderism
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...being considered by Congress and the Supreme Court that received attention during Sunday's events. The most significant is the renewed effort by the Clinton administration to push a much-needed federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act through Congress. The bill would extend protection for victims of crimes based on gender, disability or sexual orientation. March organizers also spoke of the gay and lesbian community and their supporters as an important voting bloc hoping to influence the November presidential elections...
...those unfamiliar with the bill, VAWA's major provisions are designed to extend the right to be free from gender-motivated violence by both criminalizing interstate acts of gender violence and making it possible to try such cases in federal civil courts. They have sparked a tempestuous debate among legal scholars as to whether or not Congress illicitly blurred the line between state and federal jurisdiction by improperly applying the 14th Amendment and the Commerce Clause...
Though he acknowledged the horrors of gender-based violence and the need for severe punishment of criminals who commit it, Fried saw VAWA more as politics than jurisprudence...
...massive body of evidence is comprised of Congressional findings from early 1990s studies on the economic impact of gender-based violence...
...Supreme Court brief that Fried co-authored, he argues that if the commerce clause were interpreted so liberally, it would have to include not only gender-based crimes but "all crime...all activities which inflict injuries unintentionally…insomnia, obesity and a lack of exercise...