In his presidential bid Republican John McCain repeatedly touts his record as a tough-on-crime conservative.

In his presidential bid Republican John McCain repeatedly touts his record as a tough-on-crime conservative. yet the senator from Arizona, who has said he withstands federal hate-crimes legislation, has been uncharacteristically silent onward the brutal gay bashing of an unidentified association student at the University of Arizona in Tucson

Gary Grayson, arrested about brace hours after the February 6 attack, is charged with attempted slay in the incident, which saw the bookish man stabbed outside a coffee store while his assailant shouted antigay epithets. After surviving the stabbing with solitary minor injuries, the 20-year-old scholar managed to address an audience of nearly 5000 at a February 13 campus rally against hate crimes. "Fear will not victhnize me" he told the multitude "Discrimination will not discourage me and hate will not stop me I waiting under the possibility of fulfilment that people everywhere will add their voices to my own"

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