The noose has tightened around the necks of Christians to keep them from speaking out on certain moral issues. And it all was embodied in something called the Hate crimes bill that President Obama said was a major victory for America. I’m not sure if America was the beneficiary. [...] We have voted into office a group of people who are opposed to many of the fundamental Christian beliefs of our nation. And they hold to radical ideology, and they are beginning put people sharing their points of view into high office...Considering how often white Christians lynched blacks, Jews, and other non-WASPs, I say payback's a bitch.
Seriously, however, I oppose hate crimes legislation for the most part, unless that which is termed "hate speech" is deemed to have incited others to commit violence against another person or persons of a protected class. However, this law opens the gates for all sorts of abuse of the spirit of the law. Will it be a hate crime to publish a cartoon, for instance, showing Pat Robertson dressed in KKK robes and lynching a black drag queen? Or for a redneck to proclaim loudly in a public square that he lost his job because of "Jew bankers" who control the nation's financial system? Or is it a hate crime for a straight guy to slug a gay man who hits on him? All of these scenarios are open to interpretation as hate crimes depending on the lawyers representing the victims.
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