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Originally posted by Frosty
They are called 'hate laws' or 'anti-hate laws'. You can google it if you'd like.
Official definitions of hate crimes:
Typical hate crime laws criminalize the use of force, or the threat of force, against a person because they are a member of a specific, protected group. 2
Four definitions of the term "hate crime" are:
Hate Crimes Statistics Act (1990): "crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, including where appropriate the crimes of murder, non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, aggravated assault, simple assault, intimidation, arson, and destruction, damage or vandalism of property." ( Public Law 101-275)
Bureau of Justice Administration (BJA; 1997): "hate crimes--or bias-motivated crimes--are defined as offenses motivated by hatred against a victim based on his or her race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or national origin."
Anti-Defamation League (ADL): A hate crime is "any crime committed because of the victim’s actual or perceived race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender [male or female] or sexual orientation." 3
National Education Association (NEA): "Hate crimes and violent acts are defined as offenses motivated by hatred against a victim based on his or her beliefs or mental or physical characteristics, including race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation." 4
Originally posted by Frosty
This legislation means it is now a crime to hate gays
Lecky
We know you don't really believe that religious drivel that you spew out to defend the obvious bigotry.
Originally posted by paperclip
Again, it is NOT a crime to hate gays. What logic are you using to get to that conclusion?
You can hate gays as much as you want, but don't expect many people in 21st century to agree with you.
It is a crime to act upon that hatred and physicaly harm another human being.
Oh, I also have a question: why do you HATE gays?
I mean, how do they affect your day by day activities directly? It must be something big for you to HATE them.
Allow me to clarify something. It is ok to hate and loathe the sin, but what purpose is served by hating a fellow human that is just as stupid as the next? I know, not pertinent to the topic, but I wished to say that.
Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
Uh, yes, they do want to ban everything moral, and they wish to protect everything immoral until they can get morality swept away. This is clearly the case, and to deny it makes no sense to me! Who else wants tax-payer money to perform abortions on demand, wants homosexuality to be held up as some glorious special minority, and at the same time, attempts to remove God from everything, thereby violating the very first amendment?
Turns out, he isn't talking about people who are full of joy, but is talking about people who practice an abomination!
Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
LOL!
Rant, are you feeling ok? The Liberals are the "civil libertarians" of this country?
They don't wish to ban everything moral?
Originally posted by RANT
The liberals are the civil libertarians in this country. Not the ban everything moral authoritarians.