This is the bill in the senate right now it has passed tho house the end of April
(2) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, OR DISABILITY- ‘(A) IN
GENERAL- Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, in any circumstance described in subparagraph (B), willfully causes bodily injury to any
person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerouse weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any
person, because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any
person--
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The bill does not spell out protection for a pedophile . But under a definition Pedophilia is a sexual orientation in a broad context.
Unlawful Acts against a pedophile would be subject to an additional penalty from this bill besides the original charge .
I can see the extreme usage of this law . A neighborhood tries to push out a known or convicted pedophile out of their neighborhood and getting
slapped with this bill .
One point to interject here IF a racist never goes out and hurts a person different than him and no law has been broken there is no need to charge
him with any thing , he is just a creep,
So if a pedaphile never acts on his urges there is really no crime or reason to hate .
Personally I don't think any group of people should have added protection under the law . If I am beat half to death the max they will get is 15
years . But the gay guy down the street they beat him half to death the perpetrator get the same 15 years plus an additional 10 more .
By adding more years to a sentence for the beating of a protected group under the hate crimes it is saying the act against him is worse than if it
happened to a regular person That is giving them a special status over and above a regular citizen . We are suppose to be equal under the law
