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Originally Posted by willravel
"I don't believe in regulating things, so I'm going to regulate whether two people I've never met before can get married and can be beaten without it being a hate crime."
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Seretogis already laid out the answer to that first part, though apparently it doesn't apply to the DOMA-supporting Thompson. But if you want the assertion of homophobia to look more like a supported fact and less like a plausible assumption, you've still got some ground to cover. Frankly, I think you're better off dropping the assumption. Thompson's position is wrong either way.
I'd see your assumption as much more probable if, say, Thompson supported hate crime legislation otherwise - does he? But if he's opposed to the entire idea, that only undermines your assumption of homophobia further. And Thompson's position is
right either way, crime penalties shouldn't change based on the level of animosity. Premeditation, sure. Intimidation, absolutely. Hate? Nah. Hate isn't necessarily any more destructive than greed.