Post by Logan on Feb 29, 2016 5:12:57 GMT -6
One Indiana lawmaker says his colleagues are too biased to pass a law against hate crimes.
Another says perhaps they fancy themselves so free of bias that they think the state doesn't need such a law.
Lawmakers again shot down a proposal to penalize crimes motivated by hatred toward a person for who they are or what they believe, cementing for another year Indiana’s status as one of only five states without a hate crime law.
Indiana's company in that distinction: three states in the deep South — Arkansas, Georgia and South Carolina — and one, Wyoming, that was home to the murder of Matthew Shepard, the nation's most infamous anti-gay hate crime.
Read more: www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/29/indiana-too-biased-hate-crime-law/80937048/
Another says perhaps they fancy themselves so free of bias that they think the state doesn't need such a law.
Lawmakers again shot down a proposal to penalize crimes motivated by hatred toward a person for who they are or what they believe, cementing for another year Indiana’s status as one of only five states without a hate crime law.
Indiana's company in that distinction: three states in the deep South — Arkansas, Georgia and South Carolina — and one, Wyoming, that was home to the murder of Matthew Shepard, the nation's most infamous anti-gay hate crime.
Read more: www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/29/indiana-too-biased-hate-crime-law/80937048/