Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Dozens of people are holding a candlelight vigil on Long Island to mark the one-year anniversary of the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero.
CrimProf Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Sherry F. Colb (Cornell Law School) has a column on the topic of the new federal hate crimes legislation at Findlaw.
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | yesterday
New hate crime legislation was passed recently. Will Nidal Malik Hasan's crime be seen as a crime of hate? Can the Army try a soldier who has shot another soldier under the new hate crime law? If they can, will they? Should they? See a video below. Nidal Malik Hasan Today President Obama asked us not to "jump to conclusions until we have all the facts," although he was quick to climb to a...
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
Conservative Christian clergy are still going absolutely bat-shit crazy over the passing of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act. The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission led by Gary Cass plan to stage a publicity stunt at the US Capital involving incendiary hate speech directed at gay and lesbian Americans in attempt to get arrested and thereby “prove” that their God-given rights to harass...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a guest post by Marisa Richmond, Ph.D. She is the president of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (TTPC). She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Equality Project & Board of Advisors of National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). She is a former Board Member of American Educational Information Services (AEGIS), International Foundation for Gender Education...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | yesterday
The furious explosion of nutjobs over the passage of the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act continues... Our old fundie friend, Pastor Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (yeah, that's clue number one about his point of view), is back at his gay hating ways. But this time he's taking it to a whole new level. Cass and crew are headed to DC on November 16th...
Just Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hate crime laws place group identity above humanity according to RedEye's Greg Gutfeld. Related posts: Aversive Racism Is Barack Obama a Racist? Obama’s List of Extremists Offically gets Smaller The Nincompoop Left The Race to Be Racists and the Democrats
Rod 2.0:Beta (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is an update on the Long Island gay-bashing that happened early Sunday morning. Robert Bellamy, the 23-year-old thug arrested by police for the beating and robbing of the two suspected gay men, told police "God made me hate gay...
Indy Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
Federal authorities who gathered today in Indianapolis to highlight efforts to crack down on hate crimes pointed to a case out of Muncie as a reason for vigilance.
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The furious explosion of nutjobs over the passage of the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act continues... Our old fundie friend, Pastor Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (yeah, that's clue number one about his point of view), is back at his gay hating ways. But this time he's taking it to a whole new level. Cass and crew are headed to DC on November 16th...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a guest post by Vanessa Edwards Foster . Vanessa Edwards Foster, a longtime activist, is co-founder and current President of the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC), a grassroots coalition of transgender Americans who are politically active and lobby locally, statewide and at the national level. Vanessa was also the first trans individual ever elected President of a chapter of a...
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | yesterday
World Net Daily reports that a group of Christian clergymen lead by Christian Anti-Defamation Commission head Gary Cass are planning a November 16th demonstration at the U.S. Capitol during which they intend to use inciting language in the hopes of being arrested for hate crimes, thereby proving the anti-Christian bias of the just-passed Matthew Shepard Act. "We're basically going to defy the...
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eleven black women have been murdered by Anthony Sowell (I'm not even going to say allegedly since he buried them in his back yard) in Cleveland. Sowell was released from prison after serving 15 years for attempted rape. Given his current crime streak, I'm guessing that charge was a plea bargain for doing something a lot more serious. So I'm wondering, were these hate crimes? Did he speak hate speech...
Pensito Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
The last few weeks must have been bittersweet for the family and friends of Ryan Skipper, the fresh-faced 25-year-old student who was killed by a pair of young meth addicts in Polk County, Fla., two years ago because he was gay. His second killer was sentenced on Tuesday, eight days after Pres. Obama expanded federal hate crime laws to include gay people.
Queerty (Free subscription) | yesterday
Religious conservatives argued endlessly that the Matthew Shepard Act would infringe on religious freedoms because, if a pastor were to preach homophobia at the pulpit and a member of his parish went out and killed a queer, the murderer's religious beliefs would be used against him in court. So now that LGBT hate crimes legislation [...]
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glowan77 | 06/11/2009
June 6 is D-Day, June 14 is Flag Day and this year we will celebrate Fathers Day on June 21. These observances have long been a deep and revered part of American culture. Lookout, here comes change . June has traditionally been a month of honoring fathers, soldiers and patriots now thanks to the social engineering of Barack...
glowan77 | 02/25/2009
Appearing briefly on Fox’s Glenn Beck show Feb 23, 2009, Dutch Freedom Party MP, Geert Wilders said “we should throw out every bit of hate crime legislation that is ever proposed.” Why would he say this and why should we take him seriously? Besides being asked to leave Great Britain on his arrival there outcast Wilders is...
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