“Hate*” is written 179 times in the KJV. If you review all of those verses, you will see that God defines all wrongs as being born of hate, including greed, lust & power.

Christians should be careful to avoid defaulting to what Man’s Law says. Remember Acts 5:29. Likewise, we as Christians have the moral imperative to ensure that our legal system gets back to the core of our human rights as laid out in the founding document that I cited you in the other thread on positive ID for would be voters.

To say every crime is born out of hate is unintelligent. Some crime is born out of greed, other crime is born out of a qwest for power, other crime is born out of lust.

So then the question becomes, if hate crime is defined as attacking someone simply BECAUSE of their race, then this is totally different then the way the majority of you are attempting to define it.

And I agree, Hate crime legislation is stupid. If someone attacks me, I want equal justice whether they did it because they hated me due to my blackness or for some other reason.

Hate is hate whether directed at someone because of race or not. And what makes laws like this illogical is that it ignores the fact that hate crimes exist within races, as I leanred the hard way in high school. In my class of about 600, there were three black young men, one of which played on the high school basketball team. When our school played a team with the reverse demographic, the black students on the opposing team, without fail, would verbally and physically taunt the black athlete on our team. They would call him white boy and ridicule him during and after games. What was so interesting is that, to me and my classmates, he always fit in. He was one of us and race never was an issue. He was just another guy. The only people to attack him about his race were people of his own race.

So do cases like that ever get any press? No. Do cases like the one La Shawn linked to get press? Not until someone screams about the hypocrisy. The only time we hear anything is when “evil and intolerant” white people do something mean and stupid. But I bet you the situation I witnessed in high school happens all the time. People who attack others should be punished with equal ferocity regardless of the motive. After all, the damage is the same.

The cultural problem is black Americans have a readymade scapegoat in racism, while Africans and Caribbean natives have none for personal shortcomings.

Honestly, how hard could it have been to just tell her parents she didn’t want to go to college any more? I can’t imagine what I’d think if my daughter (who is Asian, although I am white) pulled the same kind of stunt.

Minority students Trinity International University — a Christian college affiliated with the Evangelical Free Church — were evacuated overnight from campus last week after several students received threatening racist hate mail. Now it turns out that …

Of course — and thankfully! — there are exceptions, and many of those exceptions involve people becoming followers of Christ, born from above. But when someone receives Christ and believes on His name, and receives the power/right to become a child of God, that is called a miracle.