[Heibges]

Originally Posted by waste gate

That's not true.

Hate crimes (also known as bias crimes) are crimes motivated by bias against an identifiable social group, usually groups defined by race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity, or political affiliation.

My suggestion would be if one was to commit a crime based on the above; say nothing and just do the crime. After all hate has no place in criminal activity.

You are right. I used to ride Golden Gate Transit between San Francisco and San Rafael. San Quentin releases it's prisoners at the bus station in San Rafael. I was talking with this ex-prisoner on the bus one day, and he explained how he went down to the Castro, beat up a gay gentleman, called him names at the same time, and now was looking at Two Strikes. He was going back to Oklahoma.

But what I was really referring to was Bush not wanting to afford them federal protections, because this would place several religious groups, who consider homosexuality to be immoral, in violation of federal law.