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  • Cenk is an idiot. Pat wasn't advocating for violence against certain groups, he was merely concerned that such a bill would likely curb the right for Christians or people of other faiths to speak out on issues like homosexuality or divorce as it would be deemed hatred. The ignorance of TYT blinds me sometimes.

  • @MrEnlighteneddespot How is this ignorant? Respectfully or at least peacefully expressing your views, is completely different from yelling profanities at or physically assaulting someone. The bill is meant to protect people from crimes based on their race or sexuality, not to take away your free speech.

  • @alacarmina As I said, Pat was just concerned. I live in the UK were Christian preachers have been criminally charged for peacefully expressing their views on a public right of way on the basis they "offended" other people.

  • This legislation is just too malleable. The issue is not that people will go to jail for committing crimes based on hate, it is that people will MAKE OTHER PEOPLE'S ACTIONS CONSIDERED CRIMES because they do not agree with a person's character.

  • @Firequacker The legislation is unstable(relatively), but good. However, religion is steadily bad.

    I found this argument very convincing, if you care to watch: watch?v=LFsxCRwhaoE

  • SOON IT WILL BE:

    I DID THIS BECAUSE I WAS GAY

    I STOPPED HIM FROM DOING THAT BECAUSE HE WAS GAY, AND BEING GAY IS WRONG AND NOT AN EXCUSE

    I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE HE GOES TO JAIL FOR LONGER BECAUSE HE DID IT BECAUSE I WAS GAY.

    That's what you're promoting, people.

  • @Firequacker

    Yep. I think a few years ago, some Muslim woman at a bar was claiming "hate crimes" because she thought the bar's dress code was too immodest and went against her religious views. Oh and then they found out she actually had nude pics on a dating site profile of hers.

  • Sometimes I get confused and think that TYT is really a Stephen Colbert style parody of ignorant leftist/statist sheeple, or at least I wish it was.

  • "American Communist Party ready to fight for Hate Crimes Bill"

  • Hate crime laws do not limit speech. There are no laws against hate speech in the US. Is Robertson ignorant of those facts? Or his he just playing ignorant people?

  • @TheJetsilver

    Yes they do, and they're ignorant laws - a crime is a crime and there's no reason to distinguish between crimes motivated by "hate" and those that aren't. It's just a step towards statism.

    All this video is a "guilt by association fallacy" - that's how braindead TYT really is, they don't even try to hide how ignorant they are.

  • @Elvishairdude89 Not all crimes are equal. There IS a reason to distinguish between hate crimes and other crimes. Hate crimes are terrorist acts, meant to intimidate an entire group. And there are NO laws against hate speech in the US. So, is Robertson ignorant or dishonest?

  • @TheJetsilver

    Go look at England or Sweden, where people are facing jail time for "hate speech" just for having controversial views. It's what they'll be pushing for next if this gets passed.

    What happened to "I hate what you have to say but will fight for your right to say it?"

  • @Elvishairdude89 Your absolutely right, I wish every nation would stick to Voltaire's wonderful statement. It bugs me even more when governments call themselves "liberal" yet are unable to tolerate the views of Bible believing Christians. Freedom of religion was something liberal philosophers fought dear for and I imagine would be horrified with such erosion of freedom of speech. Pat was only concerned that Christians would be unable to speak out on certain issues, he doesn't want violence.

  • It reeks of liberalism on this video...

    I need to get some fresh air.

  • @OCTANE1320

    lol

  • a conservative fighting hate...BUAHAHAHAHA!!

    YEAH, like a hooker's used spoon fights herpes! xD

  • @501poundmiget

    Or like a liberals brain functions beyond a Down Syndrome level ;)

  • @Elvishairdude89 riight. because conservatives "DIDN'T" make a reputation for being racist against immigrants or hating on gays and only electing religious morons who do nothing but keep taxes low >.> liberal haters = people who fear change or equality.

  • Pat Robertson can go to hell. That is an evil false teacher.

  • If Pat Robinson was really against hate crimes then he would shut the fuck up and find a giant rock to live under.

  • @rbsvy91368 "He is one of the American terrorists besides Osama bin Laden"

    Osama bin Laden wasn't American, dumbass. But for real I get what you're saying. Still ignorant though.

  • No not unless you hate humans like me, I fucking hate you's all.

    The fact that I hate all people for no reason, doesn't really sound like there is a god to me at all, And it's because of that no reason there is no god. whoops i just assaulted a police officer what just happened, seriously what happened.

  • THE US NAVY SEALS NEEDS TO MURDER PAT ROBERTSON! HE IS ONE OF THE AMERICAN TERRORISTS BESIDES OSAMA BIN LADEN.

  • ??????????????????????????????­??????? -.-

  • THANK GOD THAT PEOPLE LIKE PAT ROBERTSON WILL BE DEAD NOT LONG FROM NOW (I HOPE)

  • Opposed to fundamental Christian beliefs like helping the poor, children, widows, the environment.... Holy moly!

  • @tdifatta

    You're dumb beyond comprehension...

  • @Elvishairdude89 Quit doing this, man, you're not helping anyone. Make some legitimate claims with some real words in 'em. Change people's minds, don't just make them feel bad with conjecture. Say the truth lovingly so that they will feel bad and change themselves if they are not in accordance with it.

  • America never was, and never will be, a Christian Nation.

    Hell, we were pretty much founded on Pseudo Pagan Freemason Draconian belief's.

  • @xxDanielTM93xx

    That's false, the founders were overwhelmingly Christian.

    America is a Christian nation in the sense that the majority of Americans are Christian, and Christianty plays a great role in our history and value system.

  • @Elvishairdude89 A christian majority doesn't make a country christian. That's the difference between democracy and tyranny of the majority. Democracy assures individual rights throught a fair constitution and body of laws. An tyranny of the majority is regulated only by the votes of 50% plus 1.

    Anyway, the treaty of tripoly contains an objetive declaration that you are wrong: "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion".

  • @Elvishairdude89 Exactly. Christianity was used to justify slavery, murder, repression of women, Jim Crow laws...

  • @xxDanielTM93xx Never was, so it can never be? Logic missing, please insert.

  • Fuck every religion; science rules!

  • Pat Robertson hates himself and as the result of that he hates America.

  • @libbie7777- You are totally correct - Religion is a cult responsible for all the hate in the world -Pat Robertson and his boobs are dispicable and disgusting human beings not to mention elitist assholes of gigantic proportions

  • Tighten the noose and let the bastards swing! As Barry Goldwater said, these people are NOT conservatives, they are bigots.

  • the comb-over of hate

  • OH lets not forget christains hating other religions, ahem here we go....HATE.

  • i'm Wiccan even *we* dont go around shoving nor get into others face & *force* them to become one, its about free will...they have the right to either join or not...we dont shove our religion down ones throats nor try to convert anyone...ITS there free will..there choice to do so..Unlike this sorry poor bitching christains whose scared of this bill..guess what? IT IS A HATE CRIME when you get into someones face if there gay saying there going to hell or w/e (h-a-t-e).

    I suport this bill 100%

  • Mickety2001 is right. America was never a Christian country. Thomas Jefferson basically wrote the Declaration of Independence and Jefferson himself paved the way for seperation of church and state. Now it's in the first Amendment of the Constitution. If this were an actual Christian nation, we wouldn't have seperation of church and state, nor would we have the amendment to allow other religions to be practiced with equal status.

  • Judgementday is May 21 2011 for more info go to familyradio or google the date

  • @ Libbie7777 Libbie the people on this thread they are demonic and they hate God what would happen when they drive on a country road and they crashed into a pole or something and hurt and they couldnt get out and just who they gonna call for help ? is a God they know God exist they dont acknoweledge him!

  • @GhostryderRebel Hmmmm nice name for a *christain* there buddy, you believe in ghosts i see <.<

    YUP we are all demonic, we will eat your babies and kill your family in the name of satan! get a life moron..whoops sorry you dont...as a christain you dont have a life nor free will, oops my bad..must of been my *demonic* side again..ohhhhh snap!

    Zeus would bitch slap god & jesus like turkeys, why post on demonic messboard then? unless your a troll or a hateful christain with no sense nor brain

  • America was never a Christian country.

  • I actually feel sorry for people like libbie7777. I really do.

  • Pat Robertson is right!.... His audience IS so oblivious, so ignorant.... Anyone who watches that asshole only does so because they're too stupid to change the channel. He should be banned from showing his evil face in public. If I ever saw him, I'd spit on em.

  • @skywize shut up

  • @libbie7777 um.... that's your reply? rofl! You sheep are quite the conversationalists. Ignorant people should keep quiet and let the grown ups talk.

  • @PitterPatty . you need to find Jesus. and repent.

  • @urielrabo you need to be mentally sick to belive the bible too

  • @bushit123456 no you on the road to hell if you dont live by the bible

  • @libbie7777 That is a lie and is also very offensive.

    It is a pity that most children on this side of the world have to hear such vile superstition.

  • @bushit123456 NO THE OFFENCE COMES WHEN OUR CHILDREN SEE THAT STUFF AND THATS OFFENSIVE . HOMOSEXUALS IF THEY WOULD BELIEVE IN JESUS AND ASK JESUS IN THERE HEARTS HE COULD CLEANSE THIER LIVES AND GIVE THEM RIGHT DESIRES. IT IS GODS WORD IN THE BIBLE THAT IT IS SIN, AND IM TELLING THE COMPLETE TRUTH. IN THE 60'S WHEN I WAS BORN THERE WERE VERY LITTLE HOMOSEXUALITY. BUT NOW THERE MANY WHY BECAUSE SATAN IS OUT TO DECIEVE CAUSE HIS TIME SHORT. SO DONT BE DECIEVED

  • @libbie7777 Homosexual relationships are just disgusting for the children that were created by homophobic parents

    Adopted children of gay couples, for example, do not see any harm in their parents' love.

    How do you know that the number of homossexuals have increased?I also would like to know how can anyone be decieved to change his sexuality

    By the way, if you can talk to Jesus, you're crazy

    there is a button in your keyboard below the "tab" that if you press, it would make you look less crazy

  • @libbie7777 I don't mean to be a troll, but FUCK YOU! YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE WHO THINKS THAT ANYONE WHO IS DIFFERENT IS EVIL! WELL, MY GOD SAYS THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE STRAIGHT ARE EVIL! FUCK YOU, YOU ARE GOING TO HELL!! SUCK MY GOD'S COCK!!!

  • Romans 1 : 24 - 27 . This is what hes talking about brother ...Read the truth

  • @theseals100 Did you know that the Bible also condemns interracial marriages?

  • @bushit123456 yes. did you know bible also prohibits wearing garments

    made of blended fibers--like cotton and linen blend, wool and cotton blend

    etc?

  • @gyreenedoc I really dont know why so many people base their life in such book

  • @bushit123456 BECAUSE IT IS THE TRUE WORD OF GOD

  • @libbie7777 Any proof?

  • @bushit123456 BECAUSE IT IS THE TRUTH. AND IF YOUR NOT LIVING BY IT YOU CAN EASLY BE DECIEVED BY SATAN SEE. YOUR EITHER LIVING BY GODS WORD OR BYT SATAN WORLDLY WAYS. TWO ROADS THATS IT

  • @libbie7777 The Bible was written by people. It was translated by people. It is interpreted by people.

    How can you possibly call that shit the Word of God? And how can you call wordly ways Satan ways? Almost all the evil on earth is because of religion.

    The man ignores his natural sense of morality to obey superstitions, that dont even make sense. I hate religion, it infects any society with fear, overwhelming any ethics.

  • @bushit123456 Agreed with that said why do JEWS claim land in the name of there Book ! And Why do they follow a code of Greed and lies that teet others like spit ! If theyr so God loving and gifted why cant they give land to those who dont have as much wealth ? Clearly they r Greedy and will Be Judged by MAn or God it just a matter of time. Merry Christmas All

  • @fixmyhvac I didnt say anything of that you idiot

    You are obviously playing dumb to defy my credibility

    Read the bible. The Christian God and the Jewish God are the same, with a diferent mood.

  • @bushit123456 that makes two of us

  • @EGMAG I hope people remove your spam signal, cause I thought that despite youre wrong,your comment deserves answear.

    Both the Bible and the laws are of human creation. But laws are far superior than religion because they can be -rationally- created, discussed and replaced with better ones.They can be improved so that justice is assured by the laws.

    Justice in religion can only be acidental,as religion is merely a product of supestition and social domination brought from centuries before.

  • @bushit123456 ,your comment deserves answear.<<

    Seems like my comment has disappeared long ago. Please refresh my memory as to what that comment was?

  • @bushit123456 what just cause this guy and many others use religion as something to scare people doesnt mean everybody who believes in anything and people take their believes very serious i dont push what i believe on any one my wife the woman i love to death is an atheist and im a christian i dont force her to go to church cause i believe you have your right to believe whatever who am i to tell you its fake or is dumb and just cause people have killed or did stuff doesnt make religion bad

  • @TesDB You clearly dont believe nor follow the bible,so I dont see how you can call yourself genuinely christian.Please,read it and take it seriously,or reorganize your thoughts.Being a believer in name only,is hypocrisy.

    Pat isnt a bible follower either,I dont believe there is any person today that actually believes in the bible completely.It's too ridiculous.

    And for what I see,bigots wanting quotes and mystery worshippers is all you can expect from church people.Sorry for being rude.

  • @bushit123456 this comment is quotable

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  • @bushit123456 the other one.

  • @bushit123456

    No you're deluded. Atheists have killed millions more than Christianity or any other religions combined.

  • @Elvishairdude89 Atheists killed more than christians? Where did you heard that?

  • @bushit123456 Do not confuse religion with faith. Learn the difference if your natural response to reading that was "What in heck is he talking about?! They're the SAME, DOOFUS"

  • @Firequacker I know the difference, dont get why it is relevant, and didnt see where I did a confusion on these 2 concepts.

  • @bushit123456 Ethics all stem from a purpose. You have to establish a common purpose (not force it, establish it) if you want to have common ethics. Think before you talk.

  • @gyreenedoc that was in the old testament . back when they lived by the law now we live under grace.

  • Romans 1 : 24 - 27 . This is what hes talking about brother ...Read the truth brother

  • @theseals100 The bible is not the truth.

    There is no way you can proof to me that it is truth, but I can show you several parts of the bible that are absolutely false (ex: the age of the world and universe)

    Read it with a critical thinking

  • Pat Robertson is the presenter of the cursed SATAN on the Earth.The last his destination is HELL for ever!

  • @rtchakar I do not believe in hell, but that man is worth building one.

  • So, Pat is salty because he doesn't want Christians to be punished for hate crimes? You can SAY w/e the hell you want in this country. All this bill does is punish those whose crimes are motivated by race, religion, sex or sexual orientation. Fall back Christians. No one is coming after you for saying homosexuality is wrong.

  • @rainermarius no your lies are

  • @kenelite hes is not homo fo he know that is sin and we are to tell people it is sin because sin will take you to hell and the soul will burn for eternity thats why he preaches what he does.

  • @libbie7777 There is no hell in the afterlife, but pat is working hard to create it here.

  • @libbie7777 He is not homo because he knows its a sin? That is irrelevant. People are straight or gay because of their inner desires.

    If the Bible makes you horny enough to interfere in your sexuality, dont consider yourself normal

  • @bushit123456 be quite you know not what your talking about

  • biblical values of your nation? what the fuck pat? so jews arent real americans since they dont have the same beliefs as a christian, fuck you. its against christian values to uphold hate crimes, its against christian values to take from the poor and give to the bankers, it is agaisnt christian values to support war, and disrespect other religions, pat robertson you are 100% against your own values, you peice of shit.

  • @PitterPatty Since God is the only true God I am sure that these other religions are worshipping man made idols. Since my God is against sodomy I am too. Further more I dont hate the sodomites I hate their sin just like I hate the sin of adultery. I am not arrogant I just choose to say that sodomy is wrong.

  • @1954phyllis How do you know God is against sodomy? The bible has no connections with God

  • @PitterPatty Oh yes I do know about America's early history and we were a nation founded on Christian values. If this nation is a nation that pratices free speech now why are Christians not allowed to voice their opinions on major issues? No actually gays have all the rights they deserve and since their lifestyle is totally deviant then they dont deserv e that much.

  • @1954phyllis Your founding fathers were all deist, agnostic or atheists. Read about them.

    What is the gay lifestyle? You mean sexual life? Why are you so nosy?

  • @PitterPatty This nation was a Christian nation until 1963 you dont know your history too well do you. I believe that true ministers of the gospel will speak out against sin even though they will risk going to jail. If gays dont want to hear the truth then they need to stay out of churches unless they are seeking God and want to hear the gospel message..

  • 3.55 we do punish those terrible terrible crimes we call those crimes murder!...

    I guess this guy must stand by the statement "if you ever hurt another human being, you better make dam sure their the same colour as you!"

    the problem with these hate crime laws is the just make angry hate filled bigots even angry-er and more hate filled, and maybe one day take they'll it out on some one they pointlessly they hate.

  • All Muslim Governments and Muslim Terrorists are like Nazi Germany . They already declared war on Europe and USA by doing Islamization of Europe , USA and World ( Muslim population are increasing in Europe and USA and building of new mosques every day ). So Europe and USA  Governments must declare war on All Muslim Governments and Muslim terrorists. Expel all Muslims from Europe and USA and Demolish all mosques.

  • @andyhwang2009 The only theocratic governments in the whole world is Iran and the Holy See. The rest of the middle east and north africa are secular.

    Islamization is just a consequence of the poverty in the 3rd world, its not part of a plan to conquer the world.

  • @bushit123456 you forgot saudi arabia...

  • @gyreenedoc Saudi arabia bases their law on the Sharia, but they are a monarchy, not a theocracy. Only in Iran and Vatican the leader is choosen by a group of clergymen.

    Iran had a fake election some time a go, but I´m obviosly not counting that

  • @bushit123456 who runs the country in theocracy? god? theocratic countries

    do have a president.....king.....someone who rules in the name of......is it not?

    how does vatican fit into your definition since vatican doesn't use laws based on bible?

  • @gyreenedoc I denied that theocratic states are thoose who have laws based on holy books.

    I said that theocratic states are thoose ruled, or the rulers are choosen, by a religious group. A king receive his rights from his parents.

    Irans president was first choosen by the ayatollahs. Recently they have made an election but the vote count was manipulated.

  • i cant get on the internet without see you on here., why dont you give someone else a chance to make a video. we dont want you to be the only ones on here. my God get a life. GOSSIP GOSSP GOSSIP

  • If Pat Robertson got in a fight with Robert Pattinson... who would win? Vampire that sparkles or scum of the earth?

    This is actually a really hard decision...

  • ZIONISM is the radical party who controls the US govt. Just ask Benjamin Freidman

  • WHats sad is the people watching these videos are the people that already know that he is a NUT job. The people who need to get this video are the ones who dont have access are not aware of how dumb this ass is

  • @360atGOD Unfortunately, there are people who admire him even more after watching this video

  • @bushit123456 why should we admre him because of him hundreds maybe thousands are getting help . they are getting fed. have you done something better then this??

  • @libbie7777 here is an analogy (not mine creation): My neighbor had a dog that he fed and gave water. But he also beat his dog. Is he a good person?

  • Pat you are a nut job. I hope you burn in hell with jerry fartwell.

  • Pat Robertson: dragging us kicking and screaming back into the Dark Ages!

  • son of a senator not a pastor he's a lobbyist

  • "the fundemental chirstian beliefs of our nation" this man is crazy. America has never been and will never be christian. American is home for christians, muslims, jews, hindus. America is home for every one. America is free. America is not kristian. This man is crazy.

  • Hate crime is thought crime. I could see it being an exacerbating factor, but not a separate crime.

  • I hate Pat Robertson so much!!! oops, can I still say that. ;)~

  • Pat Robertson and other crazies such as him claim that by passing a hate crimes bill, they will be jailed for speaking out against homosexuality in church, i.e. hate speech.

  • @CyborgNinja7 I thought that the bill was about hate speech too.

    If its not, then it is not a victory for nobody

  • Pat robertson has sex with men..

  • @1Mafioso4 From the recent lawsuits and arrests in the Christian right, I wouldn't doubt it...

  • Patt Robertson is worse than Hilter!

  • While being an Wiccan I don't think that Pat Robertson is an real christian, I have firends who are christian and they are nothing like that!

  • @wolfmother8719 : your friends are not truly christian! The bible says: "Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?"

    If these people were true Christians they would not befriend a Wicca, they would try to evangelize but they would not befriend you!

  • @Bergkristall A ture christian would not hold to the beliefs of Pat Robertson, they would not confuse hate,fear, and ignorance with love,knowledge and faith. So I guess that they are ture christains here because they took the time to know me , learn about my faith and not to judge me because I'm different from them.

  • Maybe i heard it wrong but according to what Pat Robertson said in the clip they played that would mean all christians are racist and want to hold on to their tradition of committing hate crimes. What a fool! I thought christians were supposed to be Christ like, Pat is nothing more than a failed politican.

  • ha ha I am not gay ha ha!

  • Pat Robertson is RIGHT!!!

  • @BrendaCassinda I agree

  • It's time to check Pat Robertson in as a resident of Shady Pines Nursing Home.

  • Science in the world are is as important as Law we need science to live without science we would still be living in damn mud huts and using horse and buggy. Mabye christian Fanatics should realise that before they go into saying science is Evil

  • @Joeyal123 I definitely like the thought process. Many people don't spend the effort to study the etymological origins of words, nor the importance of doing so. The words 'faith' and 'science' both come from the same etymological stem of 'to know'. Pastors, Imams, Rabbis, and so forth know, or should know this, but properly teaching so would destroy the belief-system divide. Kemet had it correct...that's why they called their higher-learned 'Priest Scientists'...per-aah [pharaoh] included.

  • Pat Robertson Shouldn't Exist In This World, Who Needs Him?

  • @BibleBlackRoxxxHard I bet hes done more to help people then you have

  • Pat Robertson should be in a mental institution

  • Pat Robertson should be in a mental institution

  • View my Free Thinking Lessons - Message To My People. The channel is TStheEducator. pat robertson and Black leaders--or lack of--is the focal topic..

  • He is not saying that is terrible to not punish people who commit hate crimes, he is saying it is terrible that we are losing our rights as citizens by who we vote into office.

    The right that he is talking about in this video isn't the right of beating homosexuals up and cursing them as Christians, but in being able to share Jesus (who is the only way to God, only Truth and Life in the world we have, our ONLY HOPE!) and His gospel to those who are homosexuals without getting arrested.

  • @ctothegbaby7 That makes no sense what so ever, no one is persecuting Christians who go door to door trying to convert people, that's not a hate crime, what people don't want is to be killed on the basis that they're gay or black, and Pat Robertson doesn't want this law passed because it goes against Biblical teachings of stoning homosexuals etc. By the way, "God" is a character in a story, as well as Jesus, they're not real and this is all a delusion. Just felt you ought to know.

  • @ctothegbab you're not too bright

  • " When is somebody gonna put a dick in that guys mouth?" -George Carlin on Pat Robertson

  • That's some twisted logic you got there, Turks. The reason it's a bad law is that it punishes the perp for what he or she supposedly was thinking while commiting a crime. That is unconstitutional as hell.

  • right. And i am against this bill too. But that is not the reason pat robertson gives. When he says, that it is an honoured tradition to beat up gay people and they re being religiously persecuted by no longer bein able to do so he is playing the persecution card where he is the one who is doing the persecuting.

  • How the fuck are Hate Crimes any different from "Regular crimes".

    We're all human beings, and seperating us by color and sexuality is just a new level of racism.

    Oh and yeah... FUCK YOU PAT!

  • This Pat Robertson guy loves to hate and hate and hate....what a fool.....

  • He forgot about that quickly when I told him that I had already retained one of the best attorneys in the county and that my attorney had already viewed and requested the security video from the store. There was no mention of charging the young men with a hate crime even though they are black and I am white and carry a cane, I have a neurological disorder and use the cane when I am tired.

  • I had an experience with hate crime legislation a year and a half ago. I was in a parking lot and had words with a young man; he made the mistake of throwing a punch. I hit him so hard he probably felt it for a month. His two friends jumped in, but quickly regretted that decision. That afternoon the officer investigating the case came by my office and threatened to pursue a hate crime charge because they are black and I am white.

  • Keep up the good work Young Turk.

  • I've followed the development of hate crime legislation since 1989. Before hate crime entered the law, a racially-motivated assault was reported as just "assault", the meaning was lost. Now we can identify and track these crimes to enact legal protections against discrimination. The differential sentencing came later, I don't like it, but if it puts convicted offenders where their antisocial impulses can be discovered, recorded, and addressed, then it's doing what we set out to do.

  • I don't like the Hate Crime bill. I think it's holding us back.

    But Pat is so fucking off. Like always

  • Pat Robertson has made an entire career out of spreading hate.

  • @jacknuts22 to tell the truth is not hate you people just want to hear lies and lies will just take homosexuals to hell. because God can not be near sin. so if homosexuals die in that sin they will be forever be seperated from God.

  • @libbie7777 The bible is a lie, if you are truly a rational, normal person, you would concentrate on proving to me that the Bible is true.

    Repeting over and over that the bible is true doesnt make it true.

  • @libbie7777 - Articulated like a true idiot. Congrats!

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  • and God in the Bible committed hate crimes all the time!

  • no one gets persecuted for saying something, unless it promotes hateful and harmful actions. Same goes for the what is a hate crime, it s a crime that pushes more violent actions against a certain group of people.

  • Sexual orientation does not only refer to Gays. STRAIGHT people have a sexual orientation too. If people kill or attack somebody because s/he is STRAIGHT, they would be persecuated just the same as someone attacking someone who is GAY. I don't see how the hate crime bill with sexual orientation written in it only favors gays.

  • Have you ever seen a gay hate crime against a heterosexual? Hate crimes comited to gays commited by straights happen around the world still much too often. And anyway, the bill is against HATE crimes, not only crimes on homosexuals.

  • @PitterPatty I'm in still in favor of adding sexual orientation into the Hate Crime Bill as long as religious aren't persecuted for SPEAKING their beliefs.

  • Pat Robertson is a Zionist bastard who is only motivated by his racism. He has NO clue what the Bible teaches. He is always looking for extremist terrorists who warmonger and hide behind "spiritual" talk while they are giving money, voting, pushing and forcing the US and American citizens to go on illegal wars against people which Pat the monster chose to hate. The world be a safer place without Pat Robertson. Can the hate crime remove him him from the public and shut him up once and for all!

  • @Daz20s you sure dont talk like you no about the bible. I bet Pat Roberson has done more to help people then you have

  • I'm not sure if a hate crime bill makes it "more of a crime" to kill gays/lesbians. Ideally, yes, it would be great if all people were treated fairly and with equal justice, but the reality is that there really are target communities/identities who face much more discrimination because they are minorties and because of their identities.

  • TYT has every right under the 1st amendment to disagree with Christians but proposed hate crime legislation would limit the 1st amendment rights of Christians to state their beliefs. Hate crime legislation makes it more of a crime to kill a homosexual than a heterosexual person or a minority than a white person. Hate crime legislation isnt the solution. Fair and equal justice is.

  • Speaking out of homosexuals is not a hate crime. I think hate crime legislation for gays and lesbians implies actions, not words. Christian or not, why wouldn't people want the U.S. to protect all people, regardless of their identity, from harm and violence and punish those who harm them?

  • @vasquez87 According to my reading of interpretations of the 2009 federal hate crime bill, law enforcement could charge a person with a hate crime if that person were to express hatred against a random member of that group.

    Only a verbal expression of hatred is necessary. According to many if I express my Christian belief that homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God then I am saying that God hates homosexuals and therefore I have committed a hate crime.