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• National Briefing | Midwest: Illinois: Hate Crime Alleged

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A hate crime indictment will be sought against two men accused of beating a Muslim man outside a tavern in Kinsman, southwest of Chicago.
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• ‘Hate Criminals’ Not Easily Intimidated

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 628
  The Daily Political Blog Politics Daily has published an article about hate crimes. The article is filled with data and statistics (taken from the FBI’s 2008 Hate Crimes Report) and these statistics indicate that hate crimes are up!The idea that a crime committed against an individual may (if the individual is a ...
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• New Zealand: “Gay Panic” Defense in Hate Crimes Abolished

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  As a consequence of parliamentary urgency, the archaic "provocation defence" (Section 169 of the Crimes Act) was finally abolished last night. The rejection of NZs Partial Defence of Provocation yesterday has to be the most rapid LGBT-related legislative reform to date, as well as the least contested - apart from some ...
  14 hours ago

• New Zealand: "Gay Panic" Defense in Hate Crimes Abolished

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 445
  As a consequence of parliamentary urgency, the archaic "provocation defence" (Section 169 of the Crimes Act) was finally abolished last night. The rejection of NZs Partial Defence of Provocation yesterday has to be the most rapid LGBT-related legislative reform to date, as well as the least contested - apart from some ...
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• Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado Will Be Treated as a Hate Crime

  
  Queerty — Authority: 728
  The murder of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado will be treated as a hate crime by the Puerto Rico Department of Justice CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Death , Hate Crimes , Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado , Murder , Puerto Rico
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• Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill Denounced In Canadian House of Commons

  
  Gay News Bits — Authority: 476
  Late Thursday, in the House of Commons, during question period, both the NDP and the Conservative Party strongly denounced Uganda’s pending anti-gay legislation that would make homosexuality a crime.Bill Siksay, NDP Critic for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual and Transgender Issues during question period in the ...
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• Hate Crimes Based On Sexual Orientation Still Most Violent

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 660
  One trend that we can legitimately identify in the FBI’s Hate Crime Statistics for 2008 is this: hate crime offenses based on sexual orientation continue to be the most physically violent. When you look at physically violent hate crimes against persons (murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, and ...
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• Sexual Orientation Hate Crimes: Did They Really Go Up?

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 660
  The FBI has issued its annual Hate Crimes Statistics for 2008 , and there’s a lot of talk about how much the statistics for hate crimes based on sexual orientation went up. But before we jump on that bandwagon, Andrew Sullivan points us to an important caution by Mark Thompson who sees what he considers an “ ...
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• Hate crimes against Muslims and Jews

  
  The Recliner Commentaries — Authority: 142
  A Muslim Jihadist slaughters innocent American soldiers at Fort Hood and apologists for Islam--including some from the highest levels of our own government--immediately started expressing concern for the imagined anti-Islamic backlash. There is a pattern of hate crimes in this country but it is not against Muslims. ...
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• WATCH: Thousands in Puerto Rico Hold Vigil for Slain Gay Teen, Calle 13s René Pérez Speaks Out

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 612
  More developments into the brutal murder of Jorge Steven López Mercado, the gay 19-year-old who was brutally murdered, decapitated and dismembered in Puerto Rico. On Thanksgiving Eve, thousands marched through the capital of San Juan to hold a candlelight vigil...
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• THANKSGIVING: Top 10 News Stories We’re Thankful For

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 633
  2009 has been a pretty tough year. The honeymoon with President Obama came to a screeching halt, the economy remained in bad shape, and there was an avalanche of celebrity deaths this summer. But it wasn’t all bad news! In the spirit of the holiday, here are 10 news stories we were thankful to read this year: ...
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• Australia Gay Civil Unions Allowed, San Juan Vigil For Jorge Mercado, Turkish Gay Honor Killings, Vallejo Mayor Under Attack For Anti-Gay Remarks

  
  the time of my life — Authority: 140
  There are reports Thursday that the Australian commonwealth government has now conceded and will allow the country’s Central Territory to continue permitting same sex couples to hold legally binding civil ceremonies, the two governments having attained a compromise that will likely led to a to national reform on ...
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• 7281: No Hate For Hate Crimes…?

  
  MultiCultClassics — Authority: 506
  From PoliticsDaily.com… Hate Crimes Spike: Religion, Race, Sexual Orientation Are Main Targets By David Gibson Conservative religious leaders were some of the sharpest opponents of the federal legislation passed in October that expanded federal hate crimes law to include protections for homosexuals. But during ...
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• The Commonwealth and Uganda – Business As Usual?

  
  Gay News Bits — Authority: 476
  On Friday, November 27th, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) takes place in Trinidad and Tobago — chaired by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni — Will the Commonwealth suspend Uganda for its pending hate legislation or will it be business as usual?For weeks now I’ve been wondering when Canada ...
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• American Music Awards become ‘modern Sodom’

  
  Early Today — Authority: 119
  WND Openly ‘gay’ Adam Lambert simulates sex acts with men on ABC broadcast   Editor’s Note: This story contains references to very objectionable adult material, which also is included in the video of the Lambert performance. Openly homosexual former “ American Idol ” performer Adam ...
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• Hate Crimes Spike: Religion, Race, Sexual Orientation Are Main Targets

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 807
  Filed under: Disputations , Hate Crimes Conservative religious leaders were some of the sharpest opponents of the federal legislation passed in October that expanded federal hate crimes law to include protections for homosexuals. But during the debate, none of them raised the idea of revoking the existing ...
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• Canada Condemns Uganda, Jorge Mercado Murder Investigated As Hate Crime, CBS Explains Adam Lambert Blurring, Cockfight, Military Fetishism

  
  the time of my life — Authority: 140
  Canada continues to condemn Uganda and that country’s proposed Anti-Homosexual Bill , Peter Kent, the minister of state for foreign affairs calling the legislation “reprehensible, vile and hateful,” adding that for a commonwealth democracy to consider such a law is “appalling.” Canada’s contingent to ...
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• The Manhattan Declaration As The New Barmen Declaration

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 475
  Christians are hearing about the Manhattan Declaration with great excitement.  It is a tremendous document with tremendous support from some tremendous Christian figures. The actual declaration (linked to above) is some 4,000 plus words long, and is available to read at the link above.  But here is the nutshell ...
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• ‘If they suffer because of society, they suffer even more when the family condemns them’

  
  Instant Tea — Authority: 625
  Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, the openly gay teen who was murdered and dismembered two weeks ago in Puerto Rico, was laid to rest Monday. Above is footage from Lopez’s funeral. In case you can’t bear to watch, here’s what Lopez’s mother says, according to the subtitles: “I said to him, ‘Steven, tell me the ...
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• From the Field: "Transgender lives matter, too"

  
  California Ripple Effect — Authority: 511
  Post by EQCA Sacramento Field Manager Ben Hudson on last weekend’s Transgender Day of Remembrance events This past weekend I attended Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) events in Sacramento and Stockton and participated in two web-based memorials. Each year I am moved to tears listening to the manner in which ...
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