Gay Hate Crimes, What do you think? Options

[madchenallein]

While the crime is the violence, the problem is the hate. I believe that whatever you harbor in your heart, hate, love, tolerance, bigotry, will come back to you.

Just because I don't agree with someone or don't like what they're doing, doesn't justify acting against the more important belief of respecting another person simply because they are a human being.

You don't have to like how a person acts: gay behavior, bigoted behavior, intolerance of any kind; but don't demean yourself by acting dishonorably.

I think there would be far less problems if people kept their personal lives to themselves. No one needs to be kissing in public, I don't care what gender the two parties are. No one needs to insult people, particularly not in public.

If you have specific beliefs in your heart, fine, other people who want tolerance may not be able to change your personal beliefs, but you need to keep them to yourself if you can't act civilized in public.

If people treated each other with more compassion in general instead of immediately seeing a person and saying to themselves 'I don't like him because he's black' or 'I don't like her because she's gay', the world would be a much less violent place.

Here is a BIG thing with me. So many Chistians act like gay acts are the worst sins in the world, then they go home to their own families and smack their wives around, or beat up their kids, or watch violent movies or tell dirty jokes or neglect their parents (if the parents are elderly) or something like that. Why is it that they feel their 'little' sins are less bad than homosexuality. Jesus never said gay people will burn in extra hot fire. The Bible says a lazy attitude is wrong, an unforgiving heart is wrong, so many other behaviors, and even attitudes, it seems to me that gay behavior is small potatoes compared to the hypocrisy and uncharitableness of too many 'Christians'.

But that's just my opinion. I'm a Catholic and I'm far from perfect, but I do want to be an ambassador for Christ's love.

[karrar]

do you associate yourself with people who aren't christian or that don't believe in the christian god and worship him? cause disbelief is a sin too ya know.

(by the way, if you reply to this post, you're associating yourself with someone who doesn't believe in god.)

just making a point..

even if they are gay, why can't you talk to them? or be around them? it's not like they're gonna be like "BE GAY WITH ME!!!" or something. if they're gay, how does it affect you?

I'm not christian woman .

[waitwaitwait]

A hate crime is a hate crime and all offenders should get the same and equal punishment.

A black man kills a white man for being white should get the same punishment as a white man killing a hispanic for being hispanic. The same goes for a straight male/female killing a gay male/female.

Kudos to that.

[Paradox of Life]

A hate crime is a hate crime and all offenders should get the same and equal punishment.

A black man kills a white man for being white should get the same punishment as a white man killing a hispanic for being hispanic. The same goes for a straight male/female killing a gay male/female.

It's wrong to kill someone because of what they are. And legally it's wrong because.. Well, you're killing someone. Duh, hate crimes are unfair morally, but they're the same as just a regular attack legally so they should get normal consequences. Am I making sense?

[rOckThISshYt]

Kudos to that.

Yeah. I agree. If it's on the same level (ex: black man kills white man or straight male kills gay male) it should obvoiusly be the same punishment.