Hate crimes: Matthew Shepard Act 7 Articles

by BrooklynSkyDesign

Irrelevant & Wrong-Headed Good Intentions: the "LEHCPA/ Matthew Shepard Bill." Elevating hate crimes legislation to the level of a civil rights issue, Senator Gordon Smith, Republican from Oregon, justified the LEHCPA/ ...read more

by Angela S. Young

A little later in this saga and Ted Kennedy has attached a hate crime bill as an amendment to a bill to support our troops. If people don't vote for it, or the president vetoes it, they will be portrayed in the media as ag...read more

by Bob Welbaum

My past came back to greet me recently. Being retired military, I occasionally shop at a Base Exchange at the local Air Force base. On one recent trip, I had breezed through the door and was walking past the vendor disp...read more

by Steven Welch

"A principal responsibility of government is to protect and defend its citizens and to come to the aid of the mistreated. As a nation founded on the ideals of tolerance and justice, we simply cannot accept violence that is...read more

by Ross Valigura

You would think by now we would have figured out that new laws do not deter crime. We do not need more duplicate laws punishing the same offense over and over. We don't equally enforce the laws we already have. If you a...read more

by Jake Warren

A hate free zone is a place free of all evil slurs and awful names. It is a place where if you don't have anything nice to say, you don't get to say anything at all. It is a place where everyone agrees with one another, a...read more

by Deborah Hackenberger

To answer the question of what constitutes a hate crime lets first look at two different events that have happened recently. Case number one: three white Duke Lacrosse players were accused in March 2006 of beating, kick...read more