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Originally Posted by The Bid
Brian
Whats wrong with a standard assult charge? Why does someones sexual orientation have to come into play at all.
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Because there are other hate crime laws. If you're advocating that we repeal all hate crime laws, that's a different point and one that you're certainly entitled to make.
All you've argued so far is that gays are icky, should never leave the house with their partner, and that if they get killed they deserved it anyway, if I may sum up all your posts with one cogent sentence.
If hate crime laws exist, and they do, then homosexuality should very well be covered. What's wrong with a standard assault charge against a person who kills a Muslim (or someone he or she even thinks is a Muslim) in the street while shouting anti-Muslim racist filth at them? Laws are in place to protect those groups right now, because an attack like that would terrorize the entire Muslim community and not just the victim. If you've never been a part of a group that has been terrorized by a crime like that, you can't understand -- and that's fine, I wish that were the case with me. I think you're lucky if that's never happened to you.
The only real argument that can be made against this bill is that all hate crime laws should be eliminated -- in which case, it's time for everyone who opposed this bill to start calling their Congresspeople to make sure that they get right on that.