Then what's being punished is your attitude, and criminalizing people's attitude is as un-American as it gets.
Isn't that precisely the basis of so-called hate crime legislation? Criminalizing the motive, reason, thought process if you will, of someone who commits a crime?
Congress defines hate crime as:
" a crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim, or in the case of a property crime, the property that is the object of the crime, because of the actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of any person."
Section 280003(a) of the
Violent Crime Control and
Law Enforcement Act of
1994 (28 U.S.C. 994 note).
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