The Church needs to realize this that the only purpose for such laws is the furthering of the homosexual agenda. It is that simple. There are no such things as special hate crimes.
All crimes involve hate of some sort.
To create a protected class under such an umbrella makes a mockery of equal justice under the law. I cannot say this any simpler. The real tragedy of the discussion of Matthew Shepard's death is the absence of human reason illumined by faith and consciously motivated by the desire to do the will of God. An example of this is the report that Katie Couric of NBC blamed Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council for the Shepard murder. This is patently ridiculous and, as a Roman Catholic, I strongly protest the inference by a representative of NBC news that those who genuinely love homosexuals by telling them the truth are the reason for their problems.