Sky Dancer
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Stick your head in the sand and pretend there are no hate crimes.
Strawman. I never pretended there were no hate crimes. However, I see no reason why a perpetrator who sets out to kill a gay man, and the murderer of Mr. Corrales should be treated differently for murdering gay men.
The victims are both still dead. It causes massive trauma to the community. The effects are IDENTICAL.
Furthermore, the Corrales case shows how quick some communities are to rush to judgement that a case is a hate crime, when there is NO EVIDENCE for this....years before a suspect is arrested, years before a case goes to court, years before motive is established in the case.
They rush to judgement because they are operating off of a preconceived notion that gays/lesbians are the unwitting victims of heteros.
Mr. Corrales was NOT a hate crime victim, but that didn't stop thousands of people from using his name to further their agenda.
This was bias motivated violence. It's too bad you're so prejudiced against the hate crimes law that you can't see the obvious. For transvestites and transgendered individuals, Corrales death mattered.
It may not matter to you, but it matters to them and to me.