Word: hates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hours after President Clintonsigned the budget bill into law yesterday, ending the 105th Congressional session and effectively halting debate on pending hate crime legislation, members of the College community gathered to remember Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student whose murder put that legislation in the spotlight...
Resident tutors, students and their friends met late last night in the Adams Lower Common Room to remember Shepard, who died last Monday, the victim of an apparent hate crime...
Shepard's death focused national attention on hate crime legislation, which Wyoming and nine other states lack...
...There is no reason to increase the penalty on crimes which are already punished." Crimes motivated by hate are significantly different from other offenses, and they are far more violent. Research suggests that assaults motivated by hate are three times more likely than other assaults to require hospital treatment...
...legislate tolerance. Prejudice is part of human nature." A victim who is attacked because he or she is black, Jewish or gay often thinks "Does everyone in this community despise me?" That is because hate crimes are designed to send the message "We don't want you here." Hate crime laws send back an important message of hope and support to the victim, and a strong message to potential perpetrators that hate-mongering will not be tolerated. JOHN ANTHONY MELSON Bettendorf, Iowa...