Posted on 05/02/2009 3:58:13 AM PDT by Scanian
Democrats are making it illegal to think certain things. The House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday that extends federal so-called hate-crimes laws to include sexual orientation. This is a move to provide special status for specific groups. It is also unnecessary. If a miscreant kills or rapes somebody, he should be prosecuted for murder or rape. What he might have been thinking is beside the point.
Hate-crimes legislation obscures the fact that the underlying crime is already prosecutable under existing laws. The bill is named after Matthew Shepard, a homosexual who was beaten to death near Laramie, Wyo., in 1998. The case caught national attention, which accelerated the push to establish new hate crimes - but it serves as a fitting example for why new legislation is unnecessary. Mr. Shepard's attackers were successfully prosecuted without homosexuals being established as a special protected class by the federal government.
Current federal hate-crimes law already covers the use or threat of force based on race, color, religion or national origin. Proponents of adding "gender identity" falsely argue that it is needed because these crimes have become more prevalent in recent years. According to FBI data, reported attacks have remained constant - between 7,000 and 9,000 a year nationwide - since 1992.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Let’s see them enforce these thought crimes!
It "was a little past 11 a.m. on an August day in 1998 when Janice Barton, 45, was leaving the Peppermill Restaurant in the Lake Michigan shoreline community of Manistee, with her mother and daughter," reported Michael G. Walsh of the Muskegon Chronicle, back in August 2000. "As Barton and her family tried to make their way through the crowd, a man -- in Spanish -- asked his wife to make room for them."
According to witnesses, Barton, who does not understand Spanish, told her mother: "I wish these damned Spics would learn to speak English."
It's already happening. This happened ten years ago. Now, how many people in Michigan feel free to speak their minds?
LLS
Funny thing, I frequently see members of a group called the “Pink Pistols” at my local range, they are a gay/lesbian/whatever group that teaches their members handguns for self defense.
I would be willing to bet no one is going to be bashing them :-)
It all comes down to being willing to take personal responsiblity for your own safety. Liberals will not, Conservatives do. Liberals need laws to “protect” them, Conservatives only need the tools.
And before anyone asks, hell yes, let the gay folks marry, they have a right to be just as miserable as the rest of us.
That was one gutsy lady and the hysteria leveled against her by Olber(wo)mann and even some Conservatives does not frighten me.
I believe this bill has passed the House before but was killed in the Senate. Does anyone know what are the chances of this passing now?
Welcome to the USSA, comrade.
Department of pre-Crime ?
bttt
You left the Sarc off of the last sentence, at least I hope you did.
If it is not classified as a “hate” crime, what is it?
Is it a “like” crime or a “love” crime?
/S
You left the Sarc off of the last sentence, at least I hope you did.
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Not an omission. We allow children to remain children too long these days, at 18 you should be capable of making the choices of an adult. Not so very long ago, 16 was considered that age when you were treated as a man. It seems the further we progress into the future, the longer we consider childhood to continue
Maybe that is the problem after all.
Hint: it wasn't those who thought they'd done their duty by voting, if they did even that much.
America -- a great idea, didn't last.
You left the Sarc off of the last sentence, at least I hope you did.
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Sorry, mixed up my threads in the reader I use.
That was sarcasm, in a sense. I don’t think marriage = misery, but I also think the goverment has ZERO business determining who marries who. IMO the goverment has ZERO say in what should be purely a contract between individuals.
Why does it require the official sanction of big brother to call yourself “married”?
LLS
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