Comments on: President Obama Signs Hate Crimes Act Today

By: A. price

A. price — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:03:47 +0000

and to clear up misunderstandings…. i dont find Christianity evil and hate filled and violent…. just what people like many republicans and conservatives have done to christianity.

By: A. price

A. price — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:02:28 +0000

nevermind his murderers admitted their intentions and claimed “gay panic” no, we are going to cherry pick “facts” to justify the vile black hatred in our hearts.
You just cant admit that you are evil, and rejoice when someone we hate gets killed, so we try and write it off as something else…. because you are all good moral people (probably christian…. ironically one of the most hate filled religions ever to exist)
lizard, padrick, david…. go to hell.

By: lizard

lizard — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:37:59 +0000

“hate crime murder victims (including Matthew Shepard and Harvey Milk)”

except Milk was killed by an unbalanced political allie

and

ABC’s “20/20” investigation in 2004 found that drugs fueled Shepard’s brutal murder, not homophobia, as is widely believed.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:47:15 +0000

“No one is safer, but it gives government an excuse to try to indoctrinate school children and others to help them avoid hatred.”

Oh please – you make it sound like avoiding hate is a bad thing. And the only people trying to intoctrinates anybody are those rightwing “christians” (you know, the ones that call into the downstate radio station) that want to indoctrinate my kid by wanting prayers in schools.

By: MJ

MJ — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:38:21 +0000

Padrick – it’s dyke, not dike. What a dumbass. Can’t even spell the slur correctly.

By: Geezer

Geezer — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:02:23 +0000

Now, now. Bigots like Padrick don’t kill people. They just laugh and snicker while other bigots kill people.

By: Delaware Dem

Delaware Dem — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:47:15 +0000

Special protection? They are already dead after some bigot like Padrick here killed them because of who they were. It is not special protection. It is special punishment. If you kill someone simply because you hate who they are, that is a hate crime and you will be punished accordingly.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:29:10 +0000

FANtastic! Fags, Dikes and Drag Queens now get special protection.

And not a moment too soon, apparently.

By: Padrick

Padrick — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:27:33 +0000

FANtastic! Fags, Dikes and Drag Queens now get special protection. I feel better already.

By: PBaumbach

PBaumbach — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:14:03 +0000

supposedly non-secular folks say dumb stuff like “but it gives government an excuse to try to indoctrinate school children and others to help them avoid hatred.” apparently oblivious to the New Testament that, you know, tries to indoctrinate children and others to help them avoid hatred.

By: Delaware Dem

Delaware Dem — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:47:41 +0000

David and his bigoted friends just love to beat down the gays, and it is their God-given right to beat down the gays, because their God tells them that gays are an abomination, and that it is holy to hate those different from you.

David and his bigoted friends have not read the New Testament yet, it seems.

By: pandora

pandora — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:14:19 +0000

Notice how David has turned up his rhetoric? A sign of desperation.

By: MJ

MJ — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:07:17 +0000

Dumbass David – have you ever been physically assaulted because of your religion? I have. Have you ever been physically and verbally assaulted because of your sexual orientation? I have, as recently as this past January at work. There doesn’t seem to be a weekend when I’m walking down Rehoboth Avenue and some schmuck decides to yell “faggot” out his window.

Again, you pull out the “he’s leading us to socialism” card and I’m calling you on your bullshit. You would do all of us a huge favor by just STFU.

By: delacrat

delacrat — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:20:00 +0000

To answer Mike Protack’s question:

“What does it have to do with defense(sic) appropriations?”

An anti-hate crime rider perfumes the stench of a war crime appropriation bill.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:20:07 +0000

The thing about this bill isn’t so much about prosecutions — hate crime prosecutions at the Federal level are pretty rare and they will continue to be (most of them happen locally). The real value of this bill is that it allows a local jurisdiction to get help from the Feds for investigation and prosecution resources, meaning that the locals will be able to actually do their jobs better.