Hate crime

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A hate crime is an unlawful act motivated by prejudice against a type of person or lifestyle. Hate crime legislation imposes additional punishment for crimes motivated by such prejudice.

Liberals promote hate crime legislation for two reasons;

1. to publicize and sometimes exaggerate the importance of prejudice and
2. to legitimize certain lifestyles by declaring them to be protected by law.

Under the second reason, hate crime legislation is a stepping stone for a lifestyle to become protected under anti-discrimination laws.

A ladder to legislate social acceptance and promotion of a lifestyle would be as follows:

• Bottom Rung: hate crime legislation to recognize and accept the lifestyle.
• Middle Rung: anti-discrimination legislation to favor and promote the lifestyle.
• Top Rung: affirmative action to fully promote the lifestyle.

The new Speaker of the House for the 2007-2008 Congress, Nancy Pelosi, sought to pass hate crime legislation proposed in the prior session of Congress in H.R.3132.

Opposition to homosexuality

Art Moore posted this at World Net Daily:

"We don't want to promote hatred against anyone and are opposed to violence for whatever reason," said Bruce Clemenger, head of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada's Centre for Faith and Public Life. "Our concern, though is that ... courts have not distinguished between the identity of the person and the activity. So sexual orientation refers to both the sexual disposition as well as the activity."

But homosexual activists contend such a distinction cannot be made with homosexuals any more than it can with matters of race or ethnic origin.

"The argument of separating the person from the behavior is their concept," insisted Kim Vance, president of Ottawa-based EGALE, Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere.

"In reality they are the same thing," Vance said in a WND interview. "That's language that they use to justify [opposition], but it's language that we don't agree with."