Sentences with phrase «own hate crime laws»

Not only can I not marry my partner, but I can be evicted and fired for being gay in this state and there are no hate crime laws on the books in this state protecting gays and lesbians (and until October 28, 2009 there were none on a federal level either).

However, in modern America, racial discrimination is immoral and unethical which is why we have hate crime laws in place and groups like the NAACP, SPLC, HRC and the ADL to combat that sort of hate.

Such groups have claimed that federal hate crimes laws will silence preachers, ignoring those laws» robust protections for free speech and religious expression, as well as the experience in the many states with such protections already in place.

The hate crime laws were made to protect minorities not whites.

You might be able to go into public with a microphone and start yelling racial epithets, but right as you committ a crime, any crime, hate crime laws come into effect that will make the punishment much more severe.

You are right the anti-hate speech laws violate the principles of freedom of expression, however we still do enforce our own hate crime laws, which I'm happy to say are doing a solid job.

If he exhorts his psychotic minions to go and kill gay folks, then he could be brought up on hate crime laws.

I would say for the most part, yes hate crime laws are pretty BS.

Well in the hate crime laws there is also restriction of speech and puts one class of citizen above another what about that?

Hate crime laws are just white guilt.

Gay people must not be included in existing hate crimes laws.

In a show of unity during a legislative session when consensus on major issues has been difficult to reach, Democrats and Republicans in the state Senate joined together Tuesday to pass what they say is the strongest hate crime law in the nation.The bill,...

In an article about the future of litigation against «Don't Ask, Don't Tell,» Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, was quoted last week in Politico as suggesting the administration's defense of the law in court would allow the federal hate crimes law to stay on the books.

During a CapTon interview in his Capitol office yesterday, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie declined to immediately sign off on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's so - called «Charlotteville provisions» that would change the state's hate crimes law in response to the violence in Virginia last weekend.

But the governor is still pushing for changes to the state's hate crimes laws to protect more people after a rise in bias - related incidents after the election of Donald Trump.

And New York State Senator Brad Hoylman announced there would be a public forum on June 14 at the Senate Hearing Room «to assess the efficacy of New York State's Hate Crimes Law, how state and local government agencies are implementing and enforcing the Law, and whether amendments should be considered to expand the data collection, statistical reporting, law enforcement training requirements and / or otherwise further the Law's goals.»

They include ethics reforms, amending the state's hate crimes laws and a pay raise for legislators.

A bulletin sent Thursday from Schneiderman's office to all New York law enforcement offices outlines New York's hate crimes law and stresses the need to identify and investigate all cases.

He says he's in agreement that lawmakers should get a modest pay raise, but says he wants other items finished as well, including freeing up $ 1 billion more to help the homeless and the expansion of the state's hate crimes law, and the State Police authority to enforce them.

A report of its ad hoc committee also called for the passing of hate crime laws by South Africa and Nigeria as part of measures to contain the rising cases of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa.

On how to criminalise such attacks, the parties agreed to «evolves legislative instruments such as hate crime laws to promote tenets of solidarity, support and protection for Nigerians living in (The Diaspora) towards finding lasting solutions to the crisis in South Africa and other similar cases.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office announced Tuesday he will introduce legislation that would add rioting and inciting to riot that target specific protected classes to offenses under the state's hate crime laws.

Howie Katz Dogged Fighter for Hate Crimes Protections During a career where he's held senior posts in LGBTQ and Jewish community groups and on staff for top elected officials — most prominently, Governor David Paterson — Howie Katz played the lead role in mobilizing community and political support for New York's hate crimes law.

uring a career where he's held senior posts in LGBTQ and Jewish community groups and on staff for top elected officials — most prominently, Governor David Paterson — Howie Katz played the lead role in mobilizing community and political support for New York's hate crimes law.

His office has sent a bulletin to law enforcement offices across the state outlining New York's hate crime law and stressing the need for law enforcement to identify possible hate crimes, as well as guidance in civil rights law.

He has been a vocal opponent of LGBT rights who blocked equal - marriage legislation and sought to remove LGBT victims from the country's listed hate crimes laws.

The governor also wants to expand the state's hate crimes laws to offer more protection to New Yorkers who are victims in the increased number of bias - related incidents since the election of Donald Trump as president.

They include ethics reforms, amending the state's hate crimes laws, and, a pay raise.

Cuomo has named many other items he'd like to see addressed, including strengthening the state's hate crimes law in the wake of bias - related crimes since Donald Trump was elected president.

«New York state has some of the strongest hate crimes laws in the nation,» said Michael Snow, assistant director of the Anti-Defamation League New York region.

He says he's in agreement that lawmakers should get a modest pay raise but says he wants other items finished as well, including freeing up $ 1 billion more dollars to help the homeless and the expansion of the state's hate crimes law, and the state police authority to enforce them.

Gang member who killed transgender woman he was dating is first to be sentenced under federal hate crime law.

On Tuesday, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that the state's hate crime law does not cover anti-gay assaults or any crime Facebook's leaked rules on censoring hate speech protect «white men» but not «black children»

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If passed into law the Bill would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to include «gender identity» as one of the prohibited grounds of discrimination and would change the Criminal Code to similarly add gender identity under Canada's hate crimes laws.

Also, can the federal hate crime laws apply, because he advocates targeting based on the specific race that he mentioned?

It also strengthens existing hate crimes laws for a variety of other categories, including race, color, religion, national origin and ethnicity.

Not exact matches

A law - enforcement expert told CNN that the FBI was most likely involved to investigate the case as a possible hate crime since it occurred at a church.

Case in point: Local law enforcement organizations know about every hate crime committed in the U.S., but many are never reported to the FBI.

I've seen in in the home raids and the deportations of innocent family friends and I've seen it in hate crimes, and I've seen it in laws passed by Obama that strip a certain type of people, people that look like me, of our rights in the interest of «national security.»

The Southern Poverty Law Center has counted more than 200 complaints of hate crimes since Election Day, according to USA Today.

Representatives from two organizations that track hate crimes, the Southern Povery Law Center and the Council on American - Islamic Relations, told USA Today that they had seen a much larger number of people reporting hate crimes than was typical since the general election.

I believe that, if there is a true respect for the law in this country, the author of the movie, Mr. ImBacile, and people like Terry Jones, should be prosecuted for hate crimes.

because they have a law that says if you fight a gay person its a hate crime.

«Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law,» the spokesperson said.

«Hate crimes» are stupid laws that undermine human value and freedom.

Sam Mullet Sr. and 15 followers were found guilty last year of conspiracy to violate federal hate - crime law in connection with what authorities said were the religiously motivated attacks on several fellow Amish people.

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the last subway incident was a hate crime, guns are here and they are not going anywhere, I support stricter gun control laws, ban all assault weapons, and sever punishment for the crimes committed with firearms, no insanity plea accepted, just hang them

When people stop protecting crazy women who kill their children for Jesus, people who commit hate crimes fo Jesus, people who want to revise history because they feel that their religion didn't have enough input in our laws and constitution.