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So the real question that needs to be answered is why do we, in a nation with the principles of free speech and thought enshrined in its Constitution even have a category called and prosecuted as “hate crimes?

Why, national security, of course =>

Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (2009)

On October 28, 2009 President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, attached to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, which expanded existing United States federal hate crime law to apply to crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability, and dropped the prerequisite that the victim be engaging in a federally protected activity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime_laws_in_the_United_States

It turned out Matthew Shepard knew his killers. It had nothing to do with his homosexuality. He had traded drugs for sex from the men in the past. They killed him for drugs.

Thanks for bringing up (even indirectly) the Mathew Shepard murder.

The defense in that case was based on “gay panic”, that Shepard had propositioned one of the murderers spurring him to physical violence in response. The argument was loudly condemned and ultimately dismissed by the jurors.

Flash forward to Rachael Jantels comments about how Trayvon Martin circled back to beat up Zimmerman because he thought Zimmerman was homosexual and stalking him. Sounds a lot like “gay panic”, doesn’t it?

IOW Liberal ideals get caught in a circular firing squad, yet again.