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So, someone lynching someone for other reasons that being a hate crime, is somehow better for the person being lynched?
How about the law of "no lynching allow"?
If I was lynched, it being because of my race or because the shoes I was wearing, makes zero difference to me.
It's not about somehow making it "better for the person being lynched". It' about making sure that perpetrators of the crime are held accountable. Local/state law enforcement in some parts of the country have a history of treating crimes against gays etc as somehow less important than crimes against straights and therefor don't pursue the perpetrators of such crimes as aggressively. This law is intended to make sure that doesn't happen by inserting Federal investigators into the case to hold the local cops "feet to the fire" if they don't pursue the case the way they should. What is wrong with that? It's sad that local/state police don't always seem to care about crimes against gays etc, but experience and history have shown that far too often that's the way it is.
There should be NO protected classes or groups. If someone's rights have been encroached upon, regardless of what race, sex, religion, political persuasion, straight, LGBTQ or whatever other class you might come up with, it is a crime. Prosecute the crime. Do NOT prosecute because one class or another was violated, prosecute because the crime was committed. The most important minority is the individual... each and every one, and they ALL should have their rights protected.
Prosecute all encroachments upon the rights of any individual equally regardless of class.
There should be NO protected classes or groups. If someone's rights have been encroached upon, regardless of what race, sex, religion, political persuasion, straight, LGBTQ or whatever other class you might come up with, it is a crime. Prosecute the crime. Do NOT prosecute because one class or another was violated, prosecute because the crime was committed. The most important minority is the individual... each and every one, and they ALL should have their rights protected.
Prosecute all encroachments upon the rights of any individual equally regardless of class.
It would be great if that really happened, the problem is state/local police don't always do that. In some parts of the country state/local police tend to look the other way or place lower priorities on solving crimes committed against certain classes or groups. A sad and despicable fact to be sure, but that's what history has shown to be the case.
Remember this any time anybody tries to say Trump and his supporters don’t pose an existential threat to the LGBT community or that they are just misunderstood and stereotyped as homophobes. They are literally upset that a bill that makes lynching of minorities a hate crime includes sexual orientation and gender identity. Truly deplorable. What are your thoughts? Should LGBT protections be removed from this bill?
What a bunch of BS. Everyone should be protected against lynching, but the bill isn't about lynching. It's about federalizing state crimes. Not just no, but hell no.
You are ALREADY protected.
Name me a part of the country where police have a history of not aggressively pursuing criminals who commit crimes against whites?
History has shown that in many parts of the country police have not aggressively pursued criminals who commit crimes against various minorities, Sometimes the folks who've committed those crimes are the POLICE THEMSELVES.
Ken
Do you think the police aggressively pursue criminals who commit crimes against white meth or drug addicts? Do you think the police aggressively pursue criminals who commit crimes against white homeless folks? Do you think the police who commit crimes against other people all of a sudden get a conscience and decide against committing the crime just because their victim is white?
So?
You seem to be ignoring the word activist. Most evangelicals, if your definition of evangelical is a believer in Christ or a Church goer are not activist. I would dare say even most fundamentalists are not activists.
So what we have is one evangelical activist group.
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