Re: The real problem with hate crime legislation

[Briana LeClaire <mmsmom1@yahoo.com>]

Professor Goble, I realize there is probably little I can say or do to
change your Doonsbury-like worldview.  However, for the record, it is
my firm belief that the vast majority of those who dislike homosexual
behavior, including Trent Lott and Pat Robertson, do not hate the
people who engage in that behavior.

As for those young "men" being pawns, I think they deserve much more
credit for their acts than you're giving them.

Yours, Briana

Dale Goble <gobled@uidaho.edu> wrote:
>
> 
> is that it seldom reaches the purveyors of the hate.  Hate crimes
> legislation cannot punish Richard Butler and his Aryan Nations for the
> crimes of The Order even though he created the moral climate within
which
> its crime were possible.
> 
> Similarly, the Southern segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s such as
> Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, and , created the moral climate within
> which arson and murder were seen as legitimate acts to protect the
morally
> upright against the outsiders.
> 
> The two young men in Laramie are also pawns who responded to a
climate in
> which gays are presented as attacking the family and thus as outside
the
> protection of God.  The Trent Lotts and the Pat Robertsons may now
> self-righteously wring their hands, but they are the people that
effective
> hate crimes legislation would jail for they are the purveyors of the
hate
> that produces the crimes.
> 
> 
> Dale Goble
> Moscow
> 
> 
> 
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