Hate Crimes

Only two weeks after San Francisco Supervisors declared that the Catholic Church is a bastion of hate and the Bible is a hate document, the concept of hate crimes took a blow in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled against an agricultural law with a back door inclusion of hate as a punishable crime. The ruling is procedural rather than a direct smackdown of the concept of hate crimes: There is no relationship between "trampling hay fields" and homosexual outrage it turns out.

Nonetheless, the episode demonstrates that certain groups are incessantly trying by whatever means to have themselves declared "protected", and to have the ability to punish the thought crimes of those who disagree...mainly those who are Christian and have a bible for guidance.

The anatomy of a thought crime looks like this:

The provisions adopted under the failed procedure increased penalties for crimes based on what the criminal was thinking, specifying the additional penalties for "actual or perceived … ancestry, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity."

Since any evidence of what one was thinking at the time is not available to even the most determined prosecutor, the perp will have to be convicted based on the protected nature of the alleged victim. Any "morally outraged" protected class member will be in a position to punish the thought crimes of those outside his domain, who disagree with him.

This is the direction that the San Francisco Supervisors wish to take. The supervisors are marching into the anti-morality abyss in lockstep. More recently they have decreed that "sex workers" will no longer be prosecuted, effectively opening the city to pimps and prostitutes.

One might think that freedom of speech would also cover freedom of thought, but that is not the case apparently. Now the freedom of protected classes to persecute those with whom they disagree is becoming the freedom of the day. And oddly this is driven by the moral outrage of the immoral. Before long this paradox might become the law of the land.