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Without attacking me, can someone explain why this is bad - why they shouldn't be protected?

Why should a criminal who beats up an old lady and steals her purse because she was an easy target get a lesser punishment than a criminal who beats up a transvestite because he looks funny? Why is the latter crime more destructive of society than the former? Personally, I would argue that the former crime is MUCH more destructive of society.

Furthermore, we all know by now that all this "hate crimes" cr@p is just the camel getting his nose under the edge of the tent. The real intention is to make it ILLEGAL to even criticize the butt-sex brigades. If you doubt this, look to Canada and Sweden where pastors and priests are already being prosecuted for such "crimes."

Furthermore, we all know by now that all this "hate crimes" cr@p is just the camel getting his nose under the edge of the tent. The real intention is to make it ILLEGAL to even criticize the butt-sex brigades.

It's even more insidious than that. It establishes in law the outrageous concept of "thought crimes:" that government can punish you for what it claims you were thinking when you were doing the deed. It's only a minor leap from that to creating Gulags for anyone accused of having thoughts that deviate from the Official Party Line. Don't tell me that's ridiculous. It's happened in the USSR, China and other Communist countries within most Freepers' lifetimes.

Does someone who commits a "hate" crime against a homosexual hate the victim more than, say, a wife who cuts her husband's penis off? And just who is the government mind-reader who is able to tell what thoughts the perp was thinking at the time of the crime?

We're getting into totalitarian never-never land with this kind of stuff. It's very dangerous and once it's established it'll be like trying to get rid of "emergency" taxes.