Gay Hate Crimes: A Fairy Tale

Our story begins with a homosexual community who is fed up with being discriminated against. The oh-so-victimized community takes a page from the playbook of another oh-so-victimized community. And now we have the spread of hate-crime legislation.

The House has passed a bill to add anti-gay crime to the Hate Crime list. As one conservative politician so correctly pointed out: all crimes are hate crimes as they are born of violence and spread hatred. But how is the death of a homosexual any worse than the death of a child? I tell you what, I want every homosexual out there to go to the parents of a child who has been abducted and killed and tell that parent that a crime against them (the homosexual and his/her "community") is worse than the crime that occurred against that child.

We'd see some anti-homosexual crime at that point, I can assure you. But it proves the point. Homosexuals as well as people of different skin colors are not on a quest for equality. That was achieved by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a host of other visionaries and action-oriented people over the past 150 years. Homosexuals and people of different skin colors want special protection in the eyes of the law. They want someone to REALLY pay when someone of their weak, victimized group is the target of a crime.

If I tell some homosexual who is waiting on me at a restaurant that they are a worthless pile of dog-squeeze, because they screwed up my order and took 20 minutes to bring out a basket of rolls, I can now be accused of a hate-crime: homosexually targeted verbal abuse or maybe homosexually targeted slander or libel. That's just swell. So a simple comment on someone's complete inability to do the job for which they were hired has made me a hate-criminal. I'm sure I'll have to be logged into a database somewhere and will need to register with my local GLOBE representative whenever I move.

If I tell some person with dark skin pigmentation that they are not welcome in amusement park, because the terrible economy has made them dirt-poor and they cannot afford the entry fees, I am now the purveyor of racially targeted discrimination -- because of course my entry fees were set at that high level to keep out people with darker skin pigmentations. (Like someone's earnings potential is predetermined due to the chemical reaction that produces skin pigmentation.)

What happens if now someone says something ill-advised about the current President? Are they hate-criminals? Probably.

What if someone in the military discovers that a servicemember is a homosexual and partakes in homosexual acts? And that someone turns in that homosexual to the proper authorities to be processed out of the military? And then that homosexual states that the person who turned them in did it because of an anti-homosexual bias? Now, not only would that homosexual be kicked out of the military, but the person who turned them in would be subject to a court-martial, because their act was anti-homosexual -- which is the precise nature of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy advocated in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but it would also now be a hate-crime. So we have two people kicked out.

And if that trend becomes known, how many homosexuals do you think will get turned in? None. And if none get turned in, is there any political reason to overturn "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" when the end result is the same?

Liberals have wussified our country and are now wussifying our military. The Fairy Tale ends with the fairies controlling from a position of inferiority the most powerful military in the world...until we start shooting rubber bullets and launching mortars filled with fairy dust. Then where will our national defense be?