Re: 'Hate crimes' charge doesn't require 'hate'
| Posted On: 08/17/07 01:57:58 PM |
Age 51, TX |
While I do understand and agree with the concern of hate crime legislation being construed by liberal judges to encompass thought legislation, I must say in this particular case it does appear that these three men intentionally set out to cause harm to the victim based on the fact that he was a homosexual. It does not matter if their original intent was to rob him, beat him or kill him, the end result is the same. If their minimum sentence is increased by five years, I say so what? Their victim's life was shortened by who knows how many years. We are to hate the sin, not the sinner.
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Re: 'Hate crimes' charge doesn't require 'hate'
| Posted On: 08/17/07 08:32:32 AM |
Age 67, WI |
The 'hate' crime idea is mostly a 'thought' crime idea. It is fair to say that most of us hate somethings. I hate it when someone cuts me off in traffic. I hate it when my kids play in the streets. I hate it when taxes are used to fund bad ideas. I hate it when fires destroy homes and lives. I hate it when tobacco companies are not held accountable. There are many arenas where we hate things... ideas... etc. Hating an idea is the same as hating the person who holds to that idea. Consider that during WW-II so many people hated Hitler but had he abandoned his ideology, the hatred would have disappeared.. because, truth be known, we actually hated the ideas he embraced. When it comes to homosexuality, we hate the idea... the idea which has been accepted as truth... we know that a person no longer feels hated when he or she gives up the homo lifestyle. So the hatred is not toward the person but toward the idea.
We are a confused people... but this 'hate' crime business is illconceived.
Dan Schobert
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