Posted on 10/08/2009 11:49:30 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - Assaulting people because of their sexual orientation would become a federal hate crime in legislation the House is set to vote on Thursday. The bill would significantly expand the hate crimes law enacted in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968.
With the expected House passage and eventual approval by the Senate, federal prosecutors will for the first time be able to intervene in cases of violence perpetrated against gays based on their sexual orientation.
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shows how much I know - I thought ‘hate crime’ was about
crime against gays....
In the gays defense, they aren’t perpetrating premeditated acts of violence against Christians.
DC = Degenerates Cesspool
I thought it was already illegal to assault people.
I’ve not only beared the brunt of Polish jokes for most of my life, but also endured vicious blond jokes during that time as well.
You must have missed the aftermath of prop 8 in Cali...
Gays were planning violence and vandalism against religious denominations that were promoting protecting one man one woman marriage.
George Carlin said “why don’t you bend over and we’ll both find out”
Somebody explain to me how tiered penalties for certain crimes, depending on the presumed motives of the perpetrator, are not a violation of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Hmmm, since we don't know what sexual orientation babies in their mothers wombs are until after they are born, and since it seems to have been accepted that gays and lesbians are born that way, couldn't one say that abortion could be a hate crime? I mean since you can't prove which way straight or gay the yet to be born baby is......
f*ck it then. let’s go beat up a queer before the law passes (that’s a joke btw).
I would so be in jail.
I assume you have proof of that. Please post the link.
Here is a link: Link
Since the Bible is quite clear about gays/sodomites and what God suggests be done to them in the OT(stoning), I wonder how long it will be before the Bible itself is outlawed as “hate speech”. All I can say is I have more than one Bible in the house and more than one gun. And I am proficient with both.
Assaulting somebody is already a crime. The feds have no place in enforcing violations of what should be state crimes.
Colonel, USAFR
The whole point.
I posted this analysis on another thread, but it equally applies here. Here's how the scam works, for those of you who are frustrated by its persistence and the seeming inability of the GOP to surmount it:
1. Some people are members of a "Protected Class".
2. All "Protected Class" members are entitled to special rights and accusation privileges, unless they also happen to be a member of an "Oppressor Class" (see below)
3. In order to qualify for Protected Class membership, one must be at least one of the following:
a. Non-white or of mixed racial composition4. Some people are members of "Oppressor Classes", including:
b. Female
c. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, or Sexually Indeterminate
d. Disabled
a. Heterosexual White Males5. Membership rights and privileges of a Protected Class are automatically negated by concurrent membership in an Oppressor Class. For example, a Disabled Hispanic man would ordinarily be protected, unless he also happened to be a Republican, which, as an Oppressor Class negates the protection. Likewise, a white female would be protected unless she happens to be a Christian, and so on.
b. Conservatives and/or Republicans
c. Members of traditional religious faiths, including Fundamentalist Christians, Orthodox Catholics or observant Jews.
a. Total immunity from criticism regarding their thoughts, words, or behavior.Now, the reason why Oppress... er, I mean, Republicans have difficulty negating the effects of this scam is because it is part of the Left's Progressive project, and the whole of our culture is in on it. Our public schools indoctrinate children in the lessons as outlined above in virtually every subject, including the natural sciences (what is "Global Warming" but the outcome of white male capitalist greed?).
b. A presumption of having been oppressed, now or in the past, and a presumption of innocence with regard to anything with which they might be charged by a member of an Oppressor Class.
c. The right of accusation against any member of an Oppressor Class, and a presumption that their accusation is factual and true.
d. Exemption from all personal responsibilities, including the necessity to provide for one's own existence by working.
Moreover, by pretending to speak for entire "classes" of people, the Left adopts a powerful psychological weapon. If a conservative man criticizes an aspect of modern feminism, he's not attacking feminists, he "hates women". If a GOP woman does the same, she "opposes women's rights" or "doesn't want equality". Similarly, if a white man dares to mention that inner-city schools are failing, he is not hailed as a reformer: he just "hates black people" or wants to starve their school of funding. If a black Republican makes the same complaint, he's an "Uncle Tom", which is another means of invoking accusation privileges.
And that's entire the purpose of the "game": it is intimidation, practiced on a grand scale in order to achieve and maintain political power.
The only way to beat it is to agree to stop playing along, which takes a backbone and some testicular fortitude, both of which one presumes might be found among members of the Oppressor Classes.
How does someone prove they’re gay?
Max - don’t go there...
Colonel, USAFR
when was the last time you heard about a gang of drunken faggots beating a Christain to death as he walked out of his church?
How does someone prove they’re gay?””
I have stated the same concern a dozens of times. Will they be required to demonstrate felching, rimming, or gerbiling? How does one get benefits for pervert partners?? Is a demonstration required or just a simple statement, like, I’m a fag and so is my partner. Sign him up.
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