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]]> By: darthtater http://coloradoindependent.com/40755/gays-get-rights-matthew-shepard-hate-crimes-act-sent-to-president/comment-page-1#comment-28724 darthtater Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:28:33 +0000 http://coloradoindependent.com/?p=40755#comment-28724 "I don’t care if Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Sean Hannity or Lou Sheldon hurl their anti-Gay invective until the cows come home; but if someone uses Scripture as a justification for beating up someone who is Gay, that’s a different story."<br><br>How about ANYONE beating ANYONE being a hate crime...I don't see people beating people out of love...To me, abusing scripture to impose a beating on any other individual is a hate crime regardless of orientation or views and that act is an abuse of the perpetrator's religion. “I don’t care if Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Sean Hannity or Lou Sheldon hurl their anti-Gay invective until the cows come home; but if someone uses Scripture as a justification for beating up someone who is Gay, that’s a different story.”

How about ANYONE beating ANYONE being a hate crime…I don't see people beating people out of love…To me, abusing scripture to impose a beating on any other individual is a hate crime regardless of orientation or views and that act is an abuse of the perpetrator's religion.

]]> By: PolishBear http://coloradoindependent.com/40755/gays-get-rights-matthew-shepard-hate-crimes-act-sent-to-president/comment-page-1#comment-28721 PolishBear Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:55:42 +0000 http://coloradoindependent.com/?p=40755#comment-28721 People err when assuming that expanding the hate crimes statute to include sexual orientation (meaning Gay AND Straight, by the way) will “criminalize” a person’s thoughts. The current hate crimes law has been on the books since 1969, and NEVER over the past 40 years has someone been prosecuted for expressing prejudice against members of a race or a religious group. Christian pastors have been invoking Scripture against non-Christians for as long as there have been Christians, and the hate crimes statute has never been used against them. <br><br>But there is a BIG difference between expressing personal prejudice against a group, and being motivated by that prejudice to attack someone’s person or property. I don’t care if Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Sean Hannity or Lou Sheldon hurl their anti-Gay invective until the cows come home; but if someone uses Scripture as a justification for beating up someone who is Gay, that’s a different story. <br><br>Likewise when it comes to delineating between different crimes against property: There’s a big moral and ethical difference between someone who spraypaints a “tag” on a highway overpass, and someone who spraypaints swastikas on the front of a synagogue. <br><br>Until conservatives mount a concerted effort to repeal the federal hate crimes statute that has been in effect for past 40 years, I’ll continue to see their arguments against the legislation now its way to President Obama's desk as pretty disingenuous. People err when assuming that expanding the hate crimes statute to include sexual orientation (meaning Gay AND Straight, by the way) will “criminalize” a person’s thoughts. The current hate crimes law has been on the books since 1969, and NEVER over the past 40 years has someone been prosecuted for expressing prejudice against members of a race or a religious group. Christian pastors have been invoking Scripture against non-Christians for as long as there have been Christians, and the hate crimes statute has never been used against them.

But there is a BIG difference between expressing personal prejudice against a group, and being motivated by that prejudice to attack someone’s person or property. I don’t care if Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Sean Hannity or Lou Sheldon hurl their anti-Gay invective until the cows come home; but if someone uses Scripture as a justification for beating up someone who is Gay, that’s a different story.

Likewise when it comes to delineating between different crimes against property: There’s a big moral and ethical difference between someone who spraypaints a “tag” on a highway overpass, and someone who spraypaints swastikas on the front of a synagogue.

Until conservatives mount a concerted effort to repeal the federal hate crimes statute that has been in effect for past 40 years, I’ll continue to see their arguments against the legislation now its way to President Obama's desk as pretty disingenuous.

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