The Gay Thread

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Hate crimes are usually not random. It's simply not the same as your run-of-the-mill mugging or robbery. They are motivated solely by hatred of a particular group (or groups). The victims are targeted specifically due to their (actual or perceived) membership in a particular class. The violence is more horrific in these types of crimes.

Really?

A woman who is white and straight and is raped and her throat slashed and her body beaten is LESS horrific than a gay man who is raped and has his throat slashed and body beaten?

A man who sets out to kill a woman is not random.

I'm sorry but that is absurd and wrong.

All violent crime requires hatred and anger-it should not matter what the thinking was or the "membership" of a group of people.

A murdered gay man did not suffer more agony and fear than the murdered woman-his family does not feel more pain and loss.

Hate crime laws create different classes of victims- it's wrong.

Prosecute the crime equally- no matter the motivation. Someone who gets punished for a "hate crime" should not do more jail time than someone who did not- they should do the same.

We can not and should not attempt to prosecute THOUGHT.

Equality-
Marriage
Serving in the Armed Services

Equal-and the process and punishment for violent crimes against anyone should be equal too.