After a long argument with somebody about the constitutionality of having a class of crimes defined by a motivation of "hate", and some nonsense about how it violates the equal protection clause, a simple prediction was made, to wit: "only crimes against gays will be looked at for extra punishment".
I offer you the FBI's Hate Crime Statistics for 2004, Table 1, in which you will discover 22 known-offenders who got extra punishment for Anti-Heterosexual Bias Motivation.
:: posted by buermann @ 2009-05-01 09:51:24 CST |
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