Watch Jon Stewart cover the ridiculousness that is the hearings surrounding whether or not "sexual orientation" should be added to the list of hate crimes that can be committed. The arguments against the bill are preposterous. Some Republicans tried to say that it would have a "devastating and chilling effect on free speech in America." And as Jon Stewart says: "You can still hate gays and say so... you just can't physically hurt them!"

Rep. Steve King of Iowa had a groundbreaking suggestion of: why don't all gays just keep their gayness quiet and then none of us will have to hit them! Oh my goodness... it's all so clear now.

Oh oh oh! And he also compared being gay to sexual fetishes, such as asphyxiophilia (the desire to be strangled during sex). According to King, if we start making laws to protect those damn queers, we'll soon have to add hate crime legislation to protect everyone! Because what sexual fetishes a person holds is just so equatable with who someone falls in love with.