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Professor at California Luthern Univeristy Speaks on Hate Crimes

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1. Regan DuCasse Says:
   February 15th, 2007 at 6:53 pm

   There was an excellent article in Glamour magazine about an Afghan woman who dresses as a man. She does it to leave her house and work freely.
   She’s living undercover because of the horrible threat women live under daily. Even by traveling on their own, trying to read…or not wearing the body bagging burka.
   This is extreme of course. But most strict religious communities have a variance of this, for women.

   But even in America, there is an obvious variance of the perception to punish gay people simply for existing.
   Ignoring or not believing all facts to the contrary of religious belief.
   Regardless of it’s irrationality, or the tragedies that occur.
   Hate crimes are a specific category, very different from opportunistic crimes like robbery.

   We have to also too be very clear in educating the public, as this article illustrates on hijacking the meaning and outcomes of hate crimes.
   Vrey often, I’m hearing now that there is a ‘war on Christians’ or ‘war on Christianity’, here in America.

   This is patently trivializing hate crimes victims, while at the same time, maximizing the sympathy for those least in need of it.
   It’s vicious, really.
   For example, that Chase Harper kid, his life was never in danger. His family relationship was never compromised, nor was his school career for what he was put up to expressing about gay people.
   In other words, he was restricted from such expression only at school, but not in any other forum.

   However, he was temporarily inconvenienced. And he used his trip to the principle’s office as a means to get sympathy for his situation…of his own making.

   However, even the restriction of this speech cannot be called a war on him, or his expression, or his chosen religion.

   However, young gays and lesbians are ACTUAL victims of violence, not only from strangers, but their own family members often.
   They are compromised in every way from exercising THEIR freedom as a citizen.

   BIG difference.
   The problem is, those who claim moral leadership and exactness, fail to convey the moral responsibility as to what actions are drawing annoyance.
   And what actions are drawing blood.
   And knowing who the innocents really are in the mix.

   If they were right, or knew what they were talking about….no blood would be drawn and ours would be a far more peacefully integrated society.

   For them to believe that a certain group is fair game to sacrifice on the altar of their arrogance, have another think coming.
   You think people like Peter LaB never heard of the sort of political frameworks that created Jim Crow, or the march to the Holocaust and all it’s millions of victims.

   Shame on him for not knowing better…or even lying to get a certain reaction from the public.
   That goes for the ADF.
   The ADF loves to portray Christians as political victims, and they are under threat of losing their ability to function freely in their religion.

   Not only is that not true…unless and until, say…a gang of gay people chases Christians from a church meeting down and commences to bash their skulls in (which would be more of an equivocal occurrance, there will never be an equivalent in which Christians will have a legitimate complaint.
   So they might as well quit lying and taking sympathy for themselves.