[Brandon]

The amendment you are concerned about requires that bodily injury be done before someone can be prosecuted. Maybe I missed the day in Sunday School where they taught that physically assaulting a fellow sinner was a "Christian belief or practice".

[YepYep]

No, the very real danger in this legislation is that it opens up the prosecution of thought, or even public Bible reading. This is very dangerous, and every Christian needs to take a stand against it.

[Liz]

In case you haven't heard about the "Camel With His Nose Under The Tent" theory, please let me elaborate.

When the pesky camel puts his nose under the tent, we shoo him away at once.

If we wait to shoo him away, soon he'll occupy thr whole tent.

And while this bill does not yet "occupy the whole tent," that's what the eventual gameplan is.

[muawiyah]

Actually, the biggest problem with "hate crimes" legislation is that it ends up providing two different penalties for the exact same act ~ the difference resting on what the criminal said about the victim, provided, of course, that the "victim" be in the protected class of people about whom such things cannot be said.

What this does is CONFER A TITLE OF NOBILITY on the protected class.

I thought we got over that Medieval class stuff a long time ago. Apparantly we didn't, but there it is. No doubt Teddy "Fitzgerald" Kennedy wants the class system returned to what he believes to be it's rightful place.

Remember, in the bad old days the "upper class nobles" got to murder whomever they wished without any question.

People who support the return of an old fashioned European class system should probably be horsewhipped and ridden out of town on a rail.

[ohioman]

Pull your head out of your boyfriend's rear-end. You know no one here said that violence against gay's was Christian. This bill punishes the thought behind the crime which is quite Orwellian.