On Hate Crimes

It was Hitler who wrote laws about hatred, laws for the venom that rose up in his throat.

We should not write hate laws. We should not write love laws.

Our law is blind, balanced, unemotional. Laws written about how we feel or how we think begin that disastrous road to crimes of thought, not deed.

We cannot look at people's color or religion or gender and make some people more equal than others, some people's lives more valued than others.

Why does Robin Byrd think her father is more valued, more loved, more important than my father because he is black and mine is white?

Crime is crime. Justice is blind. All people are created equal before the law.

If a man is white and Christian should his attacker receive a lesser punishment than if he were black or Jewish or homosexual? We cannot forsake our Constitution--all men are created equal.

Lady Justice is not allowed to peek from under her blindfold to see whether someone is black or crippled or homosexual or female or Jewish or anything other than a person equal to other persons.

We cannot write our laws with the intention for men to be treated unequally.