Rep. Mo Brooks – one of two Alabama Congressmen to vote against a “anti-hate” measure that passed the House last week – said he voted no because it did not provide protections for “Caucasian-Americans and Christians.”

Brooks and Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, were among the two dozen Republicans voting against the measure, which specifically condemned “anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and other forms of bigotry.” Brooks said he voted against the measure because while it explicitly condemned discrimination against Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, it omitted Christians. It also omitted “Caucasians” while condemning discrimination against African-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and “lesbians, homosexuals, transsexuals and the like,” according to Brooks.

“I oppose discrimination against anyone based on inherent characteristics like ethnicity, race, sex or any other attribute over which a person has no control. Quite frankly, I am shocked the Socialist Democrats who sponsored (the bill) refused to similarly condemn discrimination against Caucasian-Americans and Christians."

Brooks called the omissions “insulting.”

“In my view, discrimination against Caucasian-Americans and Christians is just as insidious as discrimination against any other race, ethnicity or religion and the failure to specifically state opposition to discrimination against Caucasian-Americans and Christians, while reflective of Socialist Democrat priorities and values, is, by omission, fatal to the bill,” he added.

Brooks said he also felt the resolution undermines the First Amendment’s Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Association clauses and also failed to condemn Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Muslim representative from Minnesota, on remarks she made that have been criticized as anti-Semitic.

Republicans wanted Omar condemned by name in the measure.