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From:The AdvocateAs the 1999 Hate Crimes Prevention wallows in congressional committee, only two federal hate-crimes laws currently include sexual orientation. One, the 1994 Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act, provides tougher...
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From:New Internationalist (Issue 436)28 OCTOBER A year on from new US hate-crime legislation, how have things changed for the LGBT community? Before October 2009, there was no federal hate crime protection for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and...
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From:The Christian Century (Vol. 129, Issue 2)Federal prosecutors have expanded their case against members of a breakaway Amish sect for their roles in shaving the hair and beards of people considered to be their religious enemies. An indictment issued in...
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From:off our backs (Vol. 29, Issue 7)The scope of the current Hate Crimes Prevention Act needs to be extended to include gender-based crimes. While the present federal hate-crime law describes as criminal any act of violence against a person on the basis of...
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From:The Humanist (Vol. 60, Issue 2)Resisting History In the early morning hours of June 7, 1998, in Jasper, Texas, James Byrd Jr. was abducted by three white supremacists who beat him, chained him to the back of their truck, then dragged him three...
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From:Jet (Vol. 90, Issue 11)The Hate Crime Statistics Act, sponsored by Simon, was added to the Church Arson Bill and extended to the year 2002. The act calls for FBI investigation of crimes sparked by discrimination on the basis of race, religion,...
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From:America (Vol. 184, Issue 19)Hate crimes--offenses stemming from hatred of persons based on their race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation--continue to be an affront to the national conscience. Their incidence among some groups, moreover,...
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From:Insight on the News (Vol. 16, Issue 27)Q: Should hate-crime laws explicitly protect `sexual orientation'? Yes: Crimes against gays and lesbians are widespread and need special treatment. Although they never met each other and lived more than 1,000...
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From:The Other Side (Vol. 37, Issue 1)THE IMAGE OF MATTHEW SHEPARD, BEATEN and left tied to a Wyoming fence, remains lodged in our collective consciousness. Though violent crimes have continued to decrease nationally, FBI statistics show that anti-gay hate...
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From:Church & State (Vol. 62, Issue 11)Eleven years ago, a 21-year-old college student in Wyoming was robbed, severely beaten, tied to fence and left to die. The vicious murder of Matthew Shepard shocked the nation. The slightly built, soft-spoken young...
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From:The New American (Vol. 23, Issue 7)Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! --Isaiah 5:20 We live in a topsy-turvy world. From early...
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From:Curve (Vol. 19, Issue 5)A lesbian woman (known as Jane Doe, to protect her anonymity) is gang-raped by four men in Richmond, Calif. On her way home from a Minneapolis grocery store, 32-year-old lesbian Kristen Boyne is beaten unconscious by...
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From:Business First-Columbus (Vol. 18, Issue 3)Supporters of legislation to prohibit job discrimination against homosexuals expect the bill to pass the Senate this year, but they are not optimistic about their chances in the House. "If we can get this to a vote...
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From:The Christian Century (Vol. 134, Issue 19)The quality of cabin air is a growing issue for airline passengers. Pilots delay starting the engines until minutes before rolling away from the gate, which is good for saving fuel but hard on passengers, who have to...
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From:Long Island Business NewsByline: The Associated Press By all accounts, tensions between Latino newcomers and whites have eased in the nearly eight years since a vicious hate-crime stabbing left an Ecuadorean immigrant dead. Enter Donald...
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From:Moment (Vol. 41, Issue 2)And it's not enough that Bernie is Jewish. People keep asking Jewish feminists like me which would excite us more, the first woman or the first Jew in the Oval Office. The answer is, it depends on which woman and...
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From:Women's Health Weekly2016 NOV 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- New research on Sexual Violence is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating from Chicago, Illinois, by...
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From:Tablet MagazineIn the latest in an ongoing string of anti-Semitic attacks in France, a 13-year-old Jewish boy was beaten and robbed on Tuesday in Paris. According to the French National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, the...
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From:Tablet MagazineToday, the FBI released its annual report on hate crimes for the previous calendar year. As has been the case since the bureau began collecting these figures in 1992, Jews were again found to be the chief target of...
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From:The New American (Vol. 33, Issue 10)Some questions prompted by the recent presidential election campaign--and the ongoing campaign of "hating hate": How many "hate crime" claims must be exposed as hoaxes before the media stop reporting every claim...