News Flash: Christians Still Not Victimized by Hate Crimes Legislation

By Steven D., Booman Tribune
Posted on November 19, 2009, Printed on November 19, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://www.boomantribune.com//144061/

There is a group which has seen a 25% rise in hate crimes against them in Florida, 17% which involve violent physical assaults. This might surprise some of my counterparts on the Right, but the group which is incurring these vicious attacks is not the one they would suspect.

That's right, violent hate crimes against white Christians are not increasing despite the election of that Kenyan Born Muslim loving Barack Husein Obama. I know it's hard to believe considering all the angst expressed on right wing talk shows about how Christians are under attack and are being victimized and terrorized by Obama, Atheists, Secularists, Democrats and Gays, but its true, nonetheless.

Let me ask all those concerned Republicans and Conservative Christians who are so afraid/whiny/have their undies in a twist over their alleged claim that that the recent hate crimes legislation protecting gays was directed against them (despite the fact that all people of religious faith have been a protected class under hate crime legislation since the first such laws were written years ago.



Name me the last prominent hate crime in America against a White Christian individual, church or community (I exclude African American Churches for obvious reasons since those churches, much like Jewish synagogues, are the targets of bigots and racists, not people who hate on Christians)?

How many white Christians have been killed or assaulted in America for expressing their faith? And no, don't even attempt to raise the now debunked story about Cassie Bernall at Columbine who wasn't killed because she said she was a "believer" (especially since the killers planned to kill everyone they could regardless of religious belief or non-belief) The sad publicity her family has milked from her non existent expression of faith before she was murdered in cold blood was based on a lie. And I wouldn't raise the Unitarian Church shooting either, since the shooter admits he was motivated by that community's "liberal" beliefs and acceptance of gays.

On the other hand, the number of hate crimes against gays, lesbians and transgender people (and I don't mean the mere epithets or slurs they face every day at work and when they are out in public) are a frequent occurrence in 21st Century America. So frequent that many newspapers hardly cover them anymore unless they are as sensational as the Matthew Shepard case. Instead GBLT activists have to publicize these incidents themselves in order to get any news coverage at all:


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The conservatives live to be "oppressed." What else do they have? :eyes:

and people who don't go in for the full monty of their twisted beliefs merely exist in the same country as themselves.

They can't rubber-stamp the world into their own image and somehow this equals 'oppression'. :shrug:

and becoming more visible.

I know a lot of witches who are 'out of the broom closet' so to speak. What is very interesting is that severaL of them came from fundie backgrounds. Perhaps religionists don't like the message that there's life after being a fundie nutcase, especially a life where you love, worship, and celebrate who and what you want to.

Their reaction boils down to, "They're so RUDE! Why can't they just continue to be quiet and invisible?"

"I think they feel oppressed because non-christians and people who don't go in for the full monty of their twisted beliefs merely exist in the same country as themselves."