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The Religious Right's Battle Against Hate Crime Laws

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jamesfirecat2/12/2010 7:38:24 pm PST

re: #164 Mosh

re: #149 jamesfirecat

I can take on a 21 year old law school kid. :P

I support the distinction between planned murder and spontaneous yes. I do not support giving varying penalties based on someone’s race, ethnicity, or whatever. The law is the law. We all live under it.

The US is not an apartheid kingdom like Saudi Arabia where killing an “infidel” is a lesser crime than killing a Muslim.

What do you say to the argument that Hate Crimes lets us get people up in front of a federal Jury when a local one might left them off?