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OK, here's the text of HR 1493 as it is currently before the PA House:

§ 2710. ETHNIC INTIMIDATION.

(A) OFFENSE DEFINED.--A PERSON COMMITS THE OFFENSE OF ETHNIC INTIMIDATION IF, WITH MALICIOUS INTENTION TOWARD THE ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RACE, COLOR, RELIGION [OR], NATIONAL ORIGIN, ANCESTRY, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER OR IDENTITY OF ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS, HE COMMITS AN OFFENSE UNDER ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE OR UNDER CHAPTER 33 (RELATING TO ARSON, CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AND OTHER PROPERTY DESTRUCTION) EXCLUSIVE OF SECTION 3307 (RELATING TO INSTITUTIONAL VANDALISM) OR UNDER SECTION 3503 (RELATING TO CRIMINAL TRESPASS) OR UNDER SECTION 5504 (RELATING TO HARASSMENT BY COMMUNICATION OR ADDRESS) WITH RESPECT TO SUCH INDIVIDUAL OR HIS OR HER PROPERTY OR WITH RESPECT TO ONE OR MORE MEMBERS OF SUCH GROUP OR TO THEIR PROPERTY.

(B) GRADING.--AN OFFENSE UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE CLASSIFIED AS A MISDEMEANOR OF THE THIRD DEGREE IF THE OTHER OFFENSE IS CLASSIFIED AS A SUMMARY OFFENSE. OTHERWISE, AN OFFENSE UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE CLASSIFIED ONE DEGREE HIGHER IN THE CLASSIFICATION SPECIFIED IN SECTION 106 (RELATING TO CLASSES OF OFFENSES) THAN THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE OTHER OFFENSE.

(C) DEFINITION.--AS USED IN THIS SECTION "MALICIOUS INTENTION" MEANS THE INTENTION TO COMMIT ANY ACT, THE COMMISSION OF WHICH IS A NECESSARY ELEMENT OF ANY OFFENSE REFERRED TO IN SUBSECTION (A) MOTIVATED BY HATRED TOWARD THE ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RACE, COLOR, RELIGION OR NATIONAL ORIGIN, ANCESTRY, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER OR GENDER IDENTITY OF ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS.

Section 3 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Now, exactly WHERE in this bill is this provision contained:

"If pastors from pulpits speak either of the supremacy of biblical traditional marriage or speak of sexually alternative lifestyles in an unfavorable way, under this amendment they could be open to litigation," William Devlin, president of the Pennsylvania-based Urban Family Council, told Cybercast News Service.

I am getting really, really sick of folks misrepresenting legislation. I don't think that Hate Crimes bills are a good idea. But neither is exaggerating what is in a particular bill.

You have to commit some other kind of crime first, and if you have "bad thoughts" about the status of your victim, then they stick you with this one.

Sounds like Islam to me, where a crime against a Moslem is considered more serious than a crime against a non-Moslem.

When those bad boys pick off America and bring it into Mohammad's tent, the legal basis for full sharia law will already be in place - and the first victims will be the guys who developed that legal basis.