Comments on: Who needs hate crimes protections? http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/05/03/who-needs-hate-crimes-protections/ let's activate something Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:07:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: somasoul http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/05/03/who-needs-hate-crimes-protections/#comment-11663 somasoul Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:58:06 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/05/03/who-needs-hate-crimes-protections/#comment-11663 No one needs hate crime protections. Hate crime=thought crime. No one needs hate crime protections.

Hate crime=thought crime.

]]> By: Coming Out Strong » Blog Archive » Who needs hate crimes protections? http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/05/03/who-needs-hate-crimes-protections/#comment-1957 Coming Out Strong » Blog Archive » Who needs hate crimes protections? Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:33:56 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/05/03/who-needs-hate-crimes-protections/#comment-1957 [...] I posted this first bit a little while ago here at young.anabaptistradicals.org but I’m adding more at the end to update the situation. [...] […] I posted this first bit a little while ago here at young.anabaptistradicals.org but I’m adding more at the end to update the situation. […]

]]> By: Katie http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/05/03/who-needs-hate-crimes-protections/#comment-1481 Katie Fri, 11 May 2007 19:01:46 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/05/03/who-needs-hate-crimes-protections/#comment-1481 Hey Skylark, yeah, it seems ridiculous doesn't it. Actually, gender isn't currently protected. I failed to mention that it would also be included with the new addition if this bill passes (which is unlikely since The Decider is planning to veto it if it gets near his desk). I just stumbled on this item as I was reading blogs when I should have been working: <a title="Who is it OK to hate?" href="http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1584" rel="nofollow">Who is it OK to hate?</a> Hey Skylark,

yeah, it seems ridiculous doesn’t it. Actually, gender isn’t currently protected. I failed to mention that it would also be included with the new addition if this bill passes (which is unlikely since The Decider is planning to veto it if it gets near his desk).

I just stumbled on this item as I was reading blogs when I should have been working: Who is it OK to hate?

]]> By: Skylark http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/05/03/who-needs-hate-crimes-protections/#comment-1464 Skylark Tue, 08 May 2007 21:15:46 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/05/03/who-needs-hate-crimes-protections/#comment-1464 Would pastors be arrested for saying it was a sin for people from different races to marry? Would parishioners get carted off in a paddywagon when they say "A woman's place is in the home," and "A woman should be submissive to her husband"? Or promoting tighter border security? Or saying any non-Christian is going to Hell? These things happen regularly, especially the second and fourth. I've yet to hear of anyone being arrested for saying such things in the U.S. And yet, those are examples of "Christian speech" on categories of people already protected by hate crimes legislation. Why would anyone jump to thinking that speech against homosexuals would be prosecuted in a way that speech against women's rights and ethnic populations isn't? I'm not a big fan of conspiracy theorists, right-wing or left. Would pastors be arrested for saying it was a sin for people from different races to marry? Would parishioners get carted off in a paddywagon when they say “A woman’s place is in the home,” and “A woman should be submissive to her husband”? Or promoting tighter border security? Or saying any non-Christian is going to Hell?

These things happen regularly, especially the second and fourth. I’ve yet to hear of anyone being arrested for saying such things in the U.S. And yet, those are examples of “Christian speech” on categories of people already protected by hate crimes legislation.

Why would anyone jump to thinking that speech against homosexuals would be prosecuted in a way that speech against women’s rights and ethnic populations isn’t? I’m not a big fan of conspiracy theorists, right-wing or left.

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