About 15.6 percent of hate crime offenses in the United States targeted homosexuals, according to the FBI's 2006 Hate Crime Statistics.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are currently 844 active hate groups in the United States.
In Louisiana, there are 24 hate groups, including the Black Separatists, Ku Klux Klan, White Nationalists and Neo-Nazis.
California, where Lawrence King was murdered, has 63 active hate groups - more than any state in the country.
I'm still waiting to hear more about Lawrence Kings' murderer. Anyone want to bet his family is strongly grounded in religious right beliefs?
We've heard nothing about the parents. The parents should be going to jail also!
If the kid took their car and killed someone the parents would be held responsible.
But Brandon McInerney uses a gun (where did that gun come from?) to kill Lawrence King (a gay 14 year old who recently had asked the murderer to be his valentine) and the parents aren't even mentioned!
That's VERY VERY WRONG!
Thursday, March 6, 2008
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As a parent myself, I COULD NOT AGREE WITH YOU ANY MORE.
Yes, there are such things as bad apples, and even good parents sometimes end up with bad kids.
That being said, I also believe that bad apples are the EXCEPTION to the "apple doesn't fall far from the tree" rule. Hate is taught, and the first place we learn anything is at home.
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