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Originally Posted by Rathji
I was asking him to clarify, since his previous post indicated that it could be either. If I was to assume what his answer was, then that would have been ridiculous, but I didn't.
If his concern is that religious groups should not be protected under hate crimes legislation, which is essentially designed to allow increased sentencing protect people from being persecuted solely due to their beliefs (or race etc), then I disagree.
Despite the the reasoning that religions are founded upon fictional characters, you cannot deny that religion is one of the most common reasons for such crimes. If crimes happen against religious targets that are identical in all respects to another hate crime against another 'acceptable' group', including motive, type of action, etc, then how it is any different? The fact that you personally don't agree with them?
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I never said I agree with him. I have no problem with religion being included with the other categories of hate crimes.
My problem is with the concept of hate crimes all together.