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• A Step Towards Justice for Luis Ramirez

  
  Anti-BVBL — Authority: 137
  Nothing will bring Luis Ramirez back to his family, but the wheels of justice have finally begun to turn in the correct direction. I was truly shocked to hear of charges levied against the very people who are suppose to uphold the law.   As reported by CNN : Washington (CNN) — Five people, including three ...
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• A Step Towards Justice for Luis Ramirez

  
  Anti-BVBL — Authority: 137
  // In the end, nothing will bring Luis Ramirez back to his family, but the wheels of justice have finally begun to turn in the correct direction. I was truly shocked to hear of charges levied against the very people who are suppose to uphold the law.   As reported by CNN:Washington (CNN) — Five people, [...]
  21 hours ago

• The Sikh Coalition, an advocacy group fo…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 492
  The Sikh Coalition , an advocacy group for Sikhs in the US, is publicizing an attack in West Texas on a Sikh student who was delivering pizzas. The local police department failed to designate the attack as a hate crime, failed to take the attack seriously by designating it a misdemeanor assault, and so far have ...
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• UK: Equality watchdog wants to keep asking people about sexual orientation

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Christian Institute : "If the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) gets its way, people would regularly be asked if they are heterosexual/straight, gay/lesbian, bisexual or other. The EHRC wants to collate the information into a giant database, which will allow checks on possible inequality."
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• DOJ to increase enforcement of “hate crime” laws

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  JURIST : "US Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez said Thursday that the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to increase its efforts to prosecute hate crimes."
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• Tancredo isn’t alone in recent push for hate crimes prosecutions

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 623
  Anti-illegal immigrant conservative GOP firebrand Tom Tancredo loathes hate-crimes laws, which he thinks are biased in favor of minorities and redundant. But Tancredo’s recent engagement with hate crimes is complicated. Most recently, he is showing his distaste for the laws by asking for more not less prosecutions ...
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• Suspects in possible hate crime indicted

  
  Instant Tea — Authority: 533
  From NewsWest 9 Unfortunately I didn’t catch this before we went to press yesterday, so I wasn’t able to include it in this story , but it looks as though the two suspects in a possible recent anti-gay hate crime in far west Texas have been indicted. NewsWest 9 reports that Daniel Martinez, 46, and ...
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• Hero: Walter Trochez

  
  This and That — Authority: 139
  Walter Trochez, a LGBT activist and a member of the National Resistance Front in Hondurus, was shot and killed December 13. After a military coup in June, Trochez began to document and publicize homophobic killings and crimes by those responsible for the coup. According to journalist Doug Ireland, Trochez had been ...
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• Bauer Suddenly Concerned About Hate Crimes

  
  Right Wing Watch — Authority: 624
  Gary Bauer writes that Jews are under attack here in America and seems to think that the best way to stem anti-Semitism is for more people to become Christians : It is true that the citizens of the U.S. are more pious than those of many European countries, where the decline of faith has been much reported. Still, ...
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• 2009 saw most federal hate crime cases since 2001 (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 467
  AP – The Justice Department has brought more federal hate crimes cases this year than in any year since 2001, and an Obama… Read the original post: (AP)"> (AP)">2009 saw most federal hate crime cases since 2001 (AP)
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• Arabs are victims of abuse in US post 9/11

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 18 (IANS) A quarter of Arab Americans have experienced personal or familial abuse because of race, ethnicity or religion since 9/11, says a new study.This is the first representative, population-based investigation of the health and psychological impact of Sep 11 on Arabs and Muslims living in the US, ...
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• "The Cleveland Show" continues its offensive depictions of LGBT people

  
  QTC — Authority: 445
  Following a transphobic Nov. 22 episode , Fox’s The Cleveland Show on Sunday Dec. 13 aired yet another episode exploiting overtly defamatory stereotypes," reports GLAAD . "In the episode, Cleveland remembers his last homosexual Christmas party where Herbert, a pedophile character from Fox’s Family Guy series, ...
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• Federal Hate Crime Cases at Highest Level Since ’01

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 899
  Twenty-five federal hate crimes charges were filed in the budget year that ended in September, a reversal in the numbers in the Bush administration.
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• Hate Crime Suspected in Murder of Gay Man in Puerto Rico Motel

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 613
  For the second time in less than a month, a hate crime is suspected after a gay man was killed in a gruesome murder in Puerto Rico. On November 13, the decapitated, dismembered and partially burned body of Jorge Steven...
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• 2009 saw most federal “hate crime” cases since 2001

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Associated Press : "The Justice Department has brought more federal hate crimes cases this year than in any year since 2001, and an Obama administration official said Thursday he was "shocked" by the dropoff in prosecutions during the Bush years."
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• BBCs "Should homosexuals face execution" debate slammed by openly gay Minister for Europe

  
  QTC — Authority: 445
  "Minister for Europe Chris Bryant [pictured] has attacked the BBC for holding a debate on whether gays should be executed . Bryant, who is gay, told PinkNews.co.uk he would be writing to the BBCs World Service director Peter Horrocks to demand an explanation, adding that the online debate could lead to further ...
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• Kevin Jennings

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 460
  This whole thing with Jennings (Obama’s safe school czar) promoting the abominable homosexual lifestyle in the public school system reveals a lot about the “Imposter-in-Chief” or president of the United States. When you throw in Van Jones an avowed communist now out of the administration and the other imps of ...
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• A year since the Wasilla Church Burning…

  
  RedState — Authority: 765
  …which, as a reminder, was a deliberate, premeditated attempt to murder women and children via arson; and there has been no progress in the investigation since the last time I checked .  In fact, despite the fact that somebody tried to burn down a church as part of a political statement - I am uninterested ...
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• A year since the Wasilla Church Burning…

  
  Moe Lane — Authority: 626
  …which, as a reminder, was a deliberate, premeditated attempt to murder women and children via arson; and there has been no progress in the investigation since the last time I checked .  In fact, despite the fact that somebody tried to burn down a church as part of a political statement – I am uninterested ...
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• Gay activist killed in Honduras

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 672
  A gay rights activist has been killed in Honduras in a drive-by shooting. Walter Trochez, 25, was well-known for campaigning for equality in the country and had reportedly been harassed and beaten recently.
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