What hate crime laws aim to do is end intolerance by persecuting bigots. Such a method constitutes hypocrisy par excellence . Advocates of new legislation claim that gay people will be safer under these laws. They choose to ignore that all possible crimes against gay people are already illegal for all people, but do recognize the political benefits of this sort of argument. The proponents of hate crime laws seriously abuse the emotions surrounding these issues and also patronize the groups they purport to aid.
Hate is an abstract thing, and is a part of every murderer's motive.
One can assume that the new laws would be based on the membership of a person in a group and that only hate directed at politically-powerful groups would be punished. Even crimes in which the killer did not know the protected status of his victim would likely be distorted by the advocates of punishing thought. Individual treatment and equality before the court were a hallmark of our Constitution's provisions pertaining to legal matters. The law in this country was to be limited to protecting the rights of men, and the pluralized word meant that each human was to have rights, not groups real or imagined. Realigning the law to establish a hate crime law would certainly benefit groups that receive more hate, and would denigrate the whole concept of crime.