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To: little jeremiah
So, IOW, if someone beats up a homosexual, it is a hate crime. If someone beats up my old mother, it is not a hate crime.

No, because it also says you can't beat someone up based on gender. So if they beat her up because she's a woman, that's a hate crime. If she's disabled in any way, it's a double hate crime, as the disabled are protected in there too.

37 posted on 06/25/2004 11:42:28 PM PDT by DelurkingFreeper
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To: DelurkingFreeper

Ok, if someone beats ME up it's a lesser crime.

The whole concept of "Hate Crimes" is hateful. It makes some segments of the population more "special" than others. Of course it's horrible to beat up a person in a wheelchair, and that additional cruelty can always be taken into consideration upon sentencing or charging.

But to make "sexual orientation" part of something that is already bad just carries it over into the world of 1984. For one thing, being a woman, or black, or disabled is a real physical difference. But "homosexuality" is a continuum that people can ESCAPE FROM. This kind of legislation sets people who practice same sex sodomy apart as a special class, and that is such a bad precedent that we will look back in horror at this if things don't turn around.

And often "perceived orientation" winds up sneaking in there, to further gum up the works.


56 posted on 06/26/2004 9:01:09 AM PDT by little jeremiah (http://www.mikegabbard.com - a REAL conservative running for Congress from Hawaii!)
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