[Brandon]

I agree with pretty much all of your first paragraph. I don't see why someone beating another person with a tire iron while screaming "dirty n-----!" should get a more severe penalty than someone beating another person with a tire iron "merely" because of marital infidelity or a bad debt or whatever.

What I was objecting to was the hyperbolic claims in the original post, such as the idea that this legislation is particularly aimed at Christians, or that it would outlaw public Bible readings.

[muawiyah]

I don't understand why you think the claim is hyperbolic.