02 May 2009

When passion becomes dangerous...

...it continues to send us down the slippery slope...

The House has recently passed an expansion of the crimes deemed to be considered "hate crimes." As I have always said, I am all for equality for minority groups, and I have no problem with people using the legislative/electoral process to amend laws they feel need to be changed. Too many times, people use some qualifier when they interact with others, but it's often difficult to determine which qualifier people use when they choose whether or not to interact with another person. However, making an already heinous crime a special case depending on some characteristic about the victim, which may or may not have been apparent to the perpetrator is in opposition to our values as a nation.

Clearly, this legislation is a violation of the First Amendment, but we often overlook the Fourteenth. When the Fourteenth Amendment was passed in the 1860s, it extended equal protection to all citizens of the United States. No class of people was given extra special status, because people realized then that this is not Great Britain or India. We do not have castes or lordships here. If one commits a crime against another, they should be punished harshly, if necessary. With the passage of this legislation out of the US House, it allows the government to potentially criminalize thought, and we don't do that in the US of A.

Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL), has listed several fetishes, -isms, and -philias that will not be covered under this legislation...I wonder if any in the LGBT movement have a problem with that...



Gary Bauer makes a point that this legislation will expand an already burdensome federal government. It, in effect, will nationalize local police departments when an alleged perpetrator is deemed to have acted out of hatred for a particular group. I have said in a previous blog on Myspace, that Matthew Shepard was involved in a robbery gone bad, and he was a crystal meth addict. These crucial details were ignored in order to portray Shepard as a proud gay male, who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Oh yeah, and to claim that we gays live under constant oppression...even though gays in this country live a whole lot better than in other countries.

I'm already considered a "homophobe" by some in the gay lobby for not holding many of the same victicrat opinions they do. I don't see how this will reduce "homophobia," but I do see how this will continue the resentment some have towards gays. There are cases where our First Amendment rights are being infringed by an eager gay lobby, who seeks to punish those whom they believe don't sufficiently accept teh ghey. I always have to remind those who call me a "homophobe," or a "homophobic gay guy," that I am all for equality, but not making a class of citizens more protected than another.

Congress should be ashamed for passing this type of feel good legislation...

Have a great day...

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