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• Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado Will Be Treated as a Hate Crime

  
  Queerty — Authority: 702
  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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• Hate Crimes Spike: Religion, Race, Sexual Orientation Are Main Targets

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 795
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Hate Crimes Spike: Religion, Race, Sexual Orientation Are Main Targets

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 795
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Community Members Express Concerns at City Council Hearing on Hate Crimes

  
  The DC Center — Authority: 127
  Members of the LGBT community expressed concerns at the November 20th City Council Hearing on Hate Crimes.  Those providing testimony included Chris Farris, GLOV; Amy Loudermilk, Rainbow Response, Rick Rosendall, GLAA, and Alison Gill, DC Trans Coalition. Farris began opened his testimony by stating: "I want to ...
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• Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Up 11 Percent in 2008. Because There Were More? Or More Reports?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 702
  Were always skeptical of official numbers on hate crime incidents, since these figures rely on the crimes being reported , something that might not happen because a victim is shamed into silence or an arresting officer fails to mark the proper box. That said, the FBIs latest report says anti-gay hate crimes — ...
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• Religious, Homophobic Hate Surges In L.A. County

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 165
  Partially fueled by the election of President Barack Obama and the statewide controversy over gay marriage, hate crimes based on sexual orientation shot up 21 percent in Los Angeles County last year, while religious crimes increased 14 percent, according to a county report released Thursday. Read more here: ...
  2 weeks ago

• National Republican Congressional Committee Caught Misleading With Ellipses Again

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 165
  The good people over at the National Republican Campaign Committee have a favorite punctuation mark, called the ellipsis. And they enjoy using it, mainly to make strategic truncations in a piece of text to make it look as if it says something completely different from its author’s original intent Read the original ...
  2 weeks ago

• Perez Hilton Drops Charges Against Black Eyed Peas Manager

  
  The Boombox Music Blog — Authority: 607
  Filed under: Hip-Hop , Hip-Hop News , Whats Beef? According to reports, the assault charges filed by blogger/personality Perez Hilton against the Black Eyed Peas manager Liborio Molino were dropped on Wednesday (Nov. 18). Molina issued an apology to Hilton, who claimed Molina punched him in the face outside ...
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• Will the Matthew Shepard Act Play a Part In Jorge Mercados Murder?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 702
  Juan Antonio Martínez Matos, the 26-year-old alleged murderer of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado (pictured, right), believed he was cruising for female prostitutes in Caguas, Puerto Rico. And when he found out Mercado was a man? Thats when he killed — and burned, and dismembered, and decapitated — him . ...
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• Why Anti-Gay Pastors Failed To Get Arrested At Their D.C. Rally: No Calls for Murder

  
  Queerty — Authority: 702
  So Christian pastors held their hate speech rally yesterday, where they tried to prove the recent passage of the Matthew Shepard Act would violate their religious freedoms . They failed. CONTINUED » Permalink | 6 comments | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Christian Anti-Defamation Commission , eric holder , ...
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• Exodus Defends Incitement of Antigay Violence on YouTube

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 570
  On the Exodus blog , Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas earlier this week defended “Pastor” David Manning, after YouTube removed Manning’s video for inciting antigay violence, encouraging blind hatred of LGBT customers of YouTube, and violating YouTube’s terms of service. In addition to promoting hate-based ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sharia Law In America -- Man "Consumates" Marriage with 14-year Old (LR Import)

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 153
  Islamic views of womanhood can be viewed almost in the "hate-crime" genre.  While I hate hate-crimes, the religious view of women in sharia law settings is a hate-crime.  I doubt we will see this extra law tacked on... unless this was a christian-white-male.(Libertarian Republican import)Muslim Man in Missouri ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hate Crimes Hearing November 20th

  
  The DC Center — Authority: 127
  Friday, November 20, 2009 10:00 a.m. Council Chamber, John A. Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004 Councilmember Phil Mendelson, Chairperson of the Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary, announces a public oversight hearing on Hate Crimes in the District of Columbia and ...
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• Transgender Day of Remembrance

  
  The DC Center — Authority: 127
  Join Transgender Health Empowerment, the DC Trans Coalition and others to commemorate the 2009 Trans Day of Remembrance on Friday November 20th with speakers and a nondenominational ceremony. The service takes place from 6:30pm - 9:00pm at the Metropolitan Community Church, 474 Ridge St. NW. The church is closest to ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Zealots Who Will Try to Incite a Religious-Based Hate Crime

  
  Queerty — Authority: 702
  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 murderers religious beliefs would be used against him in court. So now that LGBT hate ...
  4 weeks ago

• Florida activists continue to push for tougher hate crime statutes

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 149
  Ryan Keith Skipper’s brutal murder in 2007 is one of many anti-LGBT hate crimes that have motivated Florida activists to push for tougher statutes. Here is the original post: Florida activists continue to push for tougher hate crime statutes
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• Massachusetts Man Fired For Belief in Traditional Marriage

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 153
  Man fired after saying homosexuality wrongAccused of harassment even though lesbian approached him
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• Star Parker on Obama Signing Hate Crime

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 153
  New Hate Crimes Law Is a Mistake ~ Star Parker...After signing this new law, Obama celebrated it by saying that in this nation we should "embrace our differences."But law isnt about embracing our differences. It is about providing equal and non-arbitrary protection to all citizens.Equal protection for every individual ...
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• Hate-crimes law = fascism

  
  WesternFront America — Authority: 140
  Of the many constitutional problems with hate-crime laws, one of the most venal, surreptitious and reminiscent of George Orwells "1984" is the fact that these fascist laws punish our very thoughts. It is not so much a hate-crimes law, but in reality a thought-crimes law, for (absent an invalidation by the Supreme ...
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• Double Jeopardy in the New Hate Crimes Legislation?

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 685
  by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook A few days ago, Hans Bader writing for Stop the ACLU reported on the hate crimes legislation Bill. This article is intended to be a further discussion of what is behind the language in the Bill. The question is, is double jeopardy a factor in this new legislative language? ...
  5 weeks ago

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