Ethics

The Right Goes Batshit Over Hate Crimes Law

By Ed Brayton

With Congress now considering the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the loony right has gone absolutely batshit insane in their opposition to it. The latest strategy, which seems to have begun on the Worldnutdaily, is to refer to it as the "Pedophile Protection Act." And to flat out lie about the bill, like this:

The proposal, also called the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act after a Wyoming homosexual who was killed in a horrific robbery and beating in 1998, creates a special class for homosexuals and others with alternative sexual lifestyles and provides them protections against so-called "hate."

It specifically denies such protections to other targeted classes of citizens such as pastors, Christians, missionaries, veterans and the elderly.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).