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Congress acts to extend hate crimes to cover gays


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Thursday to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation, significantly expanding the hate crimes law enacted in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968....

 

By JIM ABRAMS

 

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I don't like the concept of "hate crimes" at all. Remember the discussion in the "On Topic" forum? Equal rights, equal protection under the Constitution.

 

If it's a crime, it's a crime.

 

Punish the perpetrator.

 

You punish these people for what they did ... not for what they were thinking when they did it.

To be the Man, you've got to beat the Man. - Ric Flair

 

Everybody knows I'm known for dropping science.

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