First Federal Gay Rights Law

President Obama signed the first major piece of federal gay rights legislation. "This was a milestone comepared to the passage of 1960's civil rights legislation empowering blacks." This new law simply adds acts of violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to the list of federal hate crimes. Obama stated that the gay rights protections would protect people who are victimized because of "who they love or who they are". This amendment signed into law was named partly for Matthew Shepard. A student who was beaten to death on 1998 simply because he was gay. His parents were very instrumental in leading the fight for such legislation. I think that Obama's decision to sign this was in way possible the right thing to do. People should not have to worry about how other people are going to treat them just for being themselves and trying to live a normal life without trying to cause problems for other people simply just by a couple differences. Everyone has their own unique differences which is what makes us our own unique individuals. If everyone was the same, we would have nothing to talk about with one another.