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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
This is what we're getting snagged on. It's not favouring gays over others. It's fighting crime against people based on sexual orientation. How is that favouring gays? Everyone has a sexual orientation.
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This is a penalty in addition to the penalty of the murder.
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people are going out of their way to interfere with that with regard to this group specifically,
then they should be penalized for it specifically.
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And a gay man who hates heteros and kills one? Or a black who hates whites and kills one? Would anyone EVER try to even consider that as a hate crime?
No.
And there's the rub.