Word: hates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hate crime laws apply only to `special groups." In fact, every American receives protection. Hate crime statutes criminalize acts committed because the victim is different from the perpetrator. Thus, Christians attacked because they are Christian are as likely as Jews or Muslims to be protected by the law. Whites are protected just as much as minorities; heterosexuals are as protected as homosexuals...
Regarding "Hate Crimes Too Broad" (Dissent, Oct. 14) and the letters in the Oct. 19 Crimson: Unfortunately, long before Matthew Shepard's murder, conservative groups around the country mobilized against hate crime laws. They base their opposition on a number of myths...
...Hate crime laws violate the First Amendment." Hate crime laws don't punish constitutionally protected free speech, only acts. Moreover, using the words of a perpetrator to establish motive is neither new nor irregular. Criminal law has always taken into account the motivation of an offender...
...BGLTSA took action on National Coming Out Day last Tuesday, accepting donations for a Matthew Shepard fund and urging people to write to members of Congress to support hate crimes legislation, now pending...
...Congressmen hate cutting benefits and they hate raising taxes," Levitt, whose agency is charged with protecting investors, told a crowd of about 50. "So it is not surprising that almost every reform proposal involves some type of market investment...