Reply #132: Do you have something to support that contention? [View All]

I read the same old arguments. It is "criminalizing thought" but no examples of how that has happened with the other groups.

Then it won't stop hate crimes, so we should just shut up and not have any extra tools at all.

Then the old "my life is worth just as much as yours" argument - which would be nice, except that isn't the way our legal system worked in terms of protecting gay citizens over the past few decades. Our lives were considered LESS than yours. And, I might add, for decades the only people speaking up about it were the gays.

Yes, the judges are a problem. And yes, the laws have been a problem.

This isn't a NEW law - it is an extension of an EXISTING law. It amazes me that the Religious Right is more protected than the gay community. . .and not one word on this thread about that reality.