Public schools and the "gay agenda"

[Lord T Hawkeye]

I'm not even going to go into the stuff the bullying--and the subsequent inaction by the school (or even worse, punishing me instead of the bully)--did to me mentally, other than to say it did teach me an important lesson about what authority figures are and how they should absolutely never, ever be trusted.

That sounds eerily familiar.

Through most of school, I had glasses, braces and I was shorter than my sister.  ><

Thankfully, around grade 10, mother nature cut me a break and I had a huge growth spurt.

[Travis Retriever]

Do you remember Lord T. Hawkeye's first post here?
The one where he talked about legislation for gays (e.g. forcing employers to hire them?)
Well...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/28/hate.crimes/index.html
*facepalm*
Found from a friend's LJ.
A commenter sarcastically posted the following:  "All this bill will do is stifle free speech, it's total bullshit, a crime is a crime is a crime and already a crime innit? All these queers want is more rights than the rest of us."
Which hyperlinked here:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28462081/
I swear I facepalmed upon looking at this...
I'm not even going to bother reading either.
All things considered:  this can't end well...

[Virgil0211]

Does hate-crime legislation even have an effect on the crimes it purports to stop?

[MrBogosity]

Hate crime legislation is an excuse for the state to grab even more power to invade privacy, and in particular for the Federal government to intrude into areas that they aren't allowed to by the Constitution.

[Travis Retriever]

Does hate-crime legislation even have an effect on the crimes it purports to stop?

I don't know (read: I don't have any statistics or studies backing me up), but I highly doubt it does any good...

[Lord T Hawkeye]

"hey group A, you're right to free speech has been trampled on and group B are the ones you have to thank for it"

Think Group A is going to like Group B more or less as a result of this?