Hmmm... not sure that saying that labeling civil rights law protecting African-Americans as "special rights" that leave out millions of Americans like you and me (their words) is the wisest argument the religious right Republicans should be making in opposition to the hate crimes bill. Check it out for yourself, from a Family Research Council email alert sent out today:
This [hate crimes] bill creates a caste system within American society where those who fit a certain category - ranging from race, disability, gender to sexual orientation and transgendered - would be seen as deserving special legal protection. The bill is most notable for the millions of Americans it leaves out, meaning if you or I are a victim of a violent crime - we matter less."We" matter less than black people? I didn't know that the religious right "we" didn't include black people? Maybe there is something to the recent article about the president of the Family Research Council's business relationship with former Klan leader David Duke.
And as an aside, check out the blatant lie from the Family Research Council. The hate crimes law wouldn't cover people like them, they say. News flash - the hate crimes law on the books ALREADY covers people like them explicitly. Religion is a category already in the existing federal hate crimes law. The religious right Republicans' problem with the hate crimes law being debated and voted on in the House tomorrow is that their little special right would have to be broadened to include more people.
They are just such liars. Un-Christian, un-Christ-like, liars.
