Sowing poison pills

Let me see if I got this straight… The GOP had been blubbering about how they don't want the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes bill because it would be used to prosecute clergy who speak out against gays. Now they want to amend the bill so that those same clergy could be subject to the death penalty? In politics this is known as the poison pill. Add an amendment to something you don't like so that all the other congresscritters say, "Yuck!" and vote against it. I trust the Dems won't let this one and its cousins survive.