Bad move. Something is either a crime, or it isn’t. And equal crimes should be treated equally. The mugging of some poor slob should carry the same penalty as the mugging of a church leader. It’s the same crime.
Oh, and you can be sure conservative speech will eventually be classified as a hate crime (as it could make some snowflakes cry).
Yup. Simple common sense really. DeSantis seems to lack that. Or he's trying to be politically correct.