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I can see a lot of discussion has taken place since I was on this thread, and I haven't read all of it. But I just wanted to respond to your last comments to me.
It is true that justice is not applied equally, no doubt about it. But creating extra punishments or special categories of crimes depending to which group of people the victim belongs, belittles those who are not members of such designated groups.

As far as special laws protecting children, or the elderly, these are special groups by their nature, being ill-equipped to defend themselves.
And as far as justice not being applied fairly, as long as we are in this mortal world it will ever be so. Adding hate crimes legislation is just another layer of injustice.

What is needed is a more moral people. Piling law upon law will not help. As long as people are educated in the "religion" of secular humanism/moral relativity, injstice and cruelty will only get worse and worse. What keeps human beings from being worse than beasts in the forest is not laws, but conscience. And to hear one's conscience, one needs training in some form of religion.

I would be considered by most here on FR to be a "member" of a minority religion, but all the great monotheistic religions have broadly speaking the same moral codes. That's what we need more of, not law piled upon unconstitutional law, misapplied by humans who are more and more riddled with moral flaws.