Hate crimes against Christians?

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That is what is wrong with hate crime labeling - there is always someone, some group, who is held in higher esteem by the law that is supposed to hold everyone equally.
I don’t think we’ve seen the last of this IMHO - Christians are being victimized everywhere in the world and I think the author hit it on the head. The MSM prefers Christians as the role of oppressor.
 
That was probably the most fair and balanced report I’ve ever read come out of Boston. 😃
 
Right now the press is obsessed with the shooting accident and Dick Cheney. I had almost forgotten about the church burnings so I’m really glad you began this thread. I was very curious to see how the press would approach this one. I guess they got lucky (the accident) and can conveniently ignore it for a while, at least until they have some ‘perps.’

The article was well written and definitely points out the ‘ever present’ double standard in the MSM in this country. I did want to comment on this statement in particular:
But real progress will come only when we abandon the whole misguided notion of ''hate crimes," which deems certain crimes more deserving of outrage and punishment not because of what the criminal did, but because of the group to which the victim belonged.
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I agree wholeheartedly with him. I’ve always disliked the whole idea of ‘hate crimes’ due to the simple fact that it leaves someone (policeman, prosecutor, jury, judge, reporter, average person, etc.) in the uneviable task of deciding what a person is/was thinking. Impossible!! We have no technology that even comes close to making this possible. What can be ‘judged’ are his/her actions. Anything else is frighteningly Orwellian. It causes the whole judicial process to become more subjective than objective which leads to the problem of ‘which group’ needs to be protected. Again, another subjective decision which will be decided on the basis of personal bias…and round and round we go. The only fair and equitable way to judge is the objective review of actions…which can be observed and measured.

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**Unfortunately, we are having problems with people attacking an imam(?), throwing stones at worshipers and vandalizing a mosque here in the metro Detroit area. But there isn’t talk of “hate” crimes, and there is no rioting. Even the people at the mosque are not crying “hate” crime. They just want the culprits apprehended.

freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060216/NEWS02/602160610**

I had no idea that all of the chuches that were burned were Baptist. That certainly needs to be taken into account. Taking away religious freedom to worship where they choose. But, of course, that will not be brought up either.

The only way, unfortunately, this will be labelled a “hate” crime, is if the suspects are Muslim, Nazis, or Catholic. :rolleyes:
 
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