So much for “equal protection”
July 9, 2009 at 8:46 am | In Crime | Leave a CommentHere’s an exchange between Senator Jeff Sessions and Attorney General Eric Holder back on June 25 during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on hate-crimes legislation:
Sessions: A minister gives a sermon, quotes the Bible about homosexuality, is thereafter attacked by a gay activist because of what the minister said about his religious beliefs and what Scripture says about homosexuality, is the minister protected?
Holder: Well, the statute would not — would not necessarily cover that. We’re talking about crimes that have a historic basis. Groups who have been targeted for violence as a result of the color of their skin, their sexual orientation, that is what this statute tends — is designed to cover. We don’t have the indication that the attack was motivated by a person’s desire to strike at somebody who was in one of these protected groups. That would not be covered by the statute.
Holder: Whites, Ministers, Military Not Protected by Hate Crime Law
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