One thing that really pisses me off is when I hear some right-wing Christian talk about homosexuals as child molesters, as if pedophila and homosexuality are interchangable.

So I don't understand why bringing up a child murdered by a pedophile has anything to do with hate crimes against gays... In fact one of the murdered in the article was gay child so that makes the straight guy the child killer.

There are a lot of STRAIGHT WHITE CHRISTIAN PEDOPHILES .
In fact there are probably more if you include the Catholic priests and Protestant preachers...

HATE CRIME IS WRONG there is NO justification for it. PERIOD.

The reason crimes against gays have gone up in this country is because we have religious extremist spreading their biblical hate. I wonder if Bush's "global struggle against extremist" will include his own backyard?