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...short, Mansfield is not Dinesh D'Souza, and this is not 1992. Discussions of multiculturalism or perceived liberal bias at Harvard are useful. But critics should choose their topics more carefully, and refrain from misapplying outdated and contentious labels...
Words are one thing. Sticks and stones are another. There were nearly 8,759 hate crimes reported in 1996; 1,016 of those were sex-bias crimes. Although no one thinks that Wyoming, which has quashed hate-crime bills three times, won't fully prosecute Shepard's killers, gay lobbyists have no doubt that there are cases in which the police look the other way, prosecutors don't bring charges and juries don't convict. Take the case of Jonathan Schmitz, who killed a gay man who said during the taping of the Jenny Jones Show that...
There needs to be a defense against the defense that "homophobia made me do it." Forty states have hate-crime laws, and studies show that added measures can make a difference. Some critics fear that speech will be curtailed in the zeal to get at all those bias incidents classified as "intimidation." But the Supreme Court has found that laws protecting gays don't violate free speech. It refused to hear the case of a preacher in New Jersey who said the state's antidiscrimination law protecting gays violated his First Amendment rights. It's a misplaced fear to think...
...with gay groups on issues like hate crimes, though not on more difficult ones like gay marriage. Eight years ago, Hatch was pivotal in helping overcome the resistance of Jesse Helms to win passage of the Hate Crimes Statistics Act, which requires the Federal Government to keep data on bias crimes, including crimes against homosexuals. But he has not backed this year's hate-crimes bill publicly yet, lest he alienate conservative colleagues whose votes he will need for passage. Indeed, so sensitive is the matter that neither Hatch nor H.R.C. would discuss the bill's exact status last week...
Bennett's study proposes that the elimination of bias in journalism and the reestablishment of fairness and accuracy will result when journalists "insist upon evidence, and always give gay or lesbian spokespersons the opportunity to respond directly to [an] allegation...