The political views the Act on October 28th 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate crimes prevention act. The act added sexual orientation and gender identity in protected categories only in the federal defined hate crimes, it allows the Justice Department to aid and investigation and prosecuting the hate crimes if local authorities request assistance or if they are unable or unwilling to properly investigate and prosecute, and remove certain situations for establishing a hate crime in federal law. Human Rights, civil rights, and in law enforcement agencies, and officially opposed bad conservative religious group Focus on the Family. The need for this provision is real, as demonstrated by Matthew
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Muslim people were perceived as targets after the September 11, 2011 because Americans had been murdered. The liberal view for the hate crime laws in the legislation says that wants to protect a group under hate crimes legislation and to make the public aware that the group is very vulnerable and has been victimized enough in the past and need more protection than the average crime. Their view is that hate crime is more serious than a conventional crime because it abuses more than immediate …show more content…
The violence tends to send a message to a minority group within a community and the liberals call it “message crimes.” They also want the law extended for homosexuals because they target hate crimes. The Law would protect heterosexual, bisexuals and homosexuals and people of all sexual orientations. They also state that increased federal involvement in hate crime prosecution would be very beneficial. Hate crime legislation would in no way limit freedom of speech. In order for a hate crime legislation to be applied in Pacific cases, a criminal act must first be committed. Preaching hatred against a particular group of people such as Jews, African Americans, women, gays, lesbians, or its cetera or stating that God hates a specific group of people have always been protected from forms of speech. Such speech is no way in any form criminal. The legislation will also protect women, transgender persons, transsexuals, and the disabled. The conservative viewpoint says that the hate crime laws are interferes with the American justice principle that is based on the fact that everyone is treated
Muslim people were perceived as targets after the September 11, 2011 because Americans had been murdered. The liberal view for the hate crime laws in the legislation says that wants to protect a group under hate crimes legislation and to make the public aware that the group is very vulnerable and has been victimized enough in the past and need more protection than the average crime. Their view is that hate crime is more serious than a conventional crime because it abuses more than immediate …show more content…
The violence tends to send a message to a minority group within a community and the liberals call it “message crimes.” They also want the law extended for homosexuals because they target hate crimes. The Law would protect heterosexual, bisexuals and homosexuals and people of all sexual orientations. They also state that increased federal involvement in hate crime prosecution would be very beneficial. Hate crime legislation would in no way limit freedom of speech. In order for a hate crime legislation to be applied in Pacific cases, a criminal act must first be committed. Preaching hatred against a particular group of people such as Jews, African Americans, women, gays, lesbians, or its cetera or stating that God hates a specific group of people have always been protected from forms of speech. Such speech is no way in any form criminal. The legislation will also protect women, transgender persons, transsexuals, and the disabled. The conservative viewpoint says that the hate crime laws are interferes with the American justice principle that is based on the fact that everyone is treated