(Jewish Group) Jewish community speaks out about anti-Semitism amid push for hate crime legislation

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

When lawmakers head back to the Statehouse Thursday, one topic shaping up to be controversial is hate crimes legislation.

While that plays out, some members of the Jewish community are speaking out about antisemitism the past year and efforts in 2019 to stop it.

Wednesday, there's no trace of the anti-Semitic graffiti once marking Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Carmel.

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The executive director of the American Family Association of Indiana said a hate crime law is not necessary.

"A hate crime law is not necessary because Indiana already has one in practice. For more than a decade, Indiana judges have been able to enhance a sentence for any victim of a hate crime if they deem it helpful. Rather than creating victim classifications that would inevitably leave some victims of such crime off, Indiana has the broadest hate crime penalty enhancement of almost any state in the nation. Perhaps, that is why Indiana ranks in the bottom half of states for hate crime incident rates," executive director Micah Clark said.

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Normally, I don't like to link to FOX but various stations aren't the same as the parent company. Also, this shows that odious group, American Family Association, being the dicks they are. They are virulently homophobic, and are probably opposed to this law because it means "faith-based" bigotry (almost always Christians) would be impeded.