When Love Meets Hate: The Relatnship Between State Polici on Gay and Lbian Rights and Hate Crime Incince - PMC

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• WHEN LOVE MEETS HATE: THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN STATE POLICI ON GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS AND HATE CRIME INCINCE
• ‘OUTRAGEO’: EX-GOP LAWMAKER SLAMS DESANTIS FOR NOT MEETG WH BIN AS PRINT TOURS FLORIDA STORM DAMAGEPUBLISHED 53 MS AGO ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2023BY GION RUB – RAW STORY A FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN ON FRIDAY SHOT DOWN FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS’ EXPLANATN FOR WHY HE N’T MEET WH JOE BIN DURG THE PRINT’S PLANNED SUNSHE STATE VIS OVER THE WEEKEND TO ASSS HURRINE IDALIA DAMAGE.ADAM KZGER DURG AN APPEARANCE ON CNN’S “ANRSON COOPER 360” SUGGTED THAT THE DESANTIS MPAIGN WAS MORE NCERNED ABOUT POLIL OPTICS THAN SERVG HIS NSTUENTS, REFLECTG A NEW BRAND OF POLICS — AND HE URGED VOTERS TO “REJECT THAT.”KZGER’S STATEMENT FOLLOWED AN ANNOUNCEMENT OM DESANTIS SPOKMAN JEREMY REDFERN CG LOGISTIL NCERNS.POLL: SHOULD TMP BE ALLOWED TO N FOR OFFICE?“IN THE RAL MUNI, AND SO SOON AFTER IMPACT, THE SECURY PREPARATNS ALONE THAT WOULD GO TO SETTG UP SUCH A MEETG WOULD SHUT DOWN ONGOG REVERY EFFORTS,” REDFERN SAID A STATEMENT OBTAED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRS.GUT HOST JOHN BERMAN ASKED KZGER “DO YOU THK THAT THE DESANTIS TEAM IS WORRIED ABOUT THE LOGISTICS OF , AS THEY SAID THE STATEMENT, OR IS MORE ABOUT THE OPTICS?”THE FORMER JAN. 6 SELECT MTEE MEMBER AND STNCH TMP CRIC WASN’T BUYG .“THERE’S A 1-TO-2 PERCENT CHANCE ’S THE LOGISTICS, THERE’S A 98-TO-99 PERCENT CHANCE ’S THE OPTICS,” KZGER SAID.“LOOK, POLICS HAS BEE…EVEN 10 YEARS AGO THERE WERE MOMENTS YOU ULD PUT POLICS ASI AND DO WHAT YOU WERE ACTUALLY ELECTED TO DO, WHICH IS LEAD, HELP, YOU KNOW, THAT KD OF STUFF. IT HAS NOW FECTED EVERYTHG, AND RON DESANTIS, AT THE ST OF THE BENEF TO FLORIDA, HAS CID HIS POLIL MPAIGN NNOT HAVE HIM MEET WH JOE BIN, THE PRINT OF THE UNED STAT WHO ULTIMATELY, WILL BE SIGNG THE CHECKS THAT FLORIDA IS GOG TO BE BEGGG FOR.”KZGER ADD: “I MEAN IS ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEO THAT AT A MOMENT…I ULDN’T IMAGE BEG A ERNOR OF ANY STATE, HAVG A TRAGEDY LIKE THAT, AND THEN TURNG AROUND AND THKG ABOUT HOW THIS ULD AFFECT MY ELECTN. IT’S JT ’S WHERE WE’RE AT NOW AND PEOPLE HAVE TO JT REJECT THAT.”WATCH THE VIO BELOW OR CLICK THE LK. CONTUE READGNEWSFEDS WANT AUTHOR OF FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL TO DO HARD TIME AFTER COVID RELIEF FRD GUILTY PLEAPUBLISHED 19 HOURS AGO ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2023BY DAVID BADASH FERAL PROSECUTORS ARE SEEKG A PRISON SENTENCE FOR FORMER FLORIDA REPUBLIN STATE LAWMAKER JOE HARDG, THOR OF THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHO PLEAD GUILTY MARCH TO CHARG CLUDG WIRE D, MONEY LNRG, AND MAKG FALSE STATEMENTS TO DULENTLY OBTA $150,000 COVID RELIEF DURG THE PANMIC.“ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY JT KEEN FILED A SENTENCG MEMO ASKG THE URTS TO PUT THE DISGRACED LAWMAKER BEHD BARS,” FLORIDA POLICS REPORTS. “FERAL GUIL AND SENTENCG SIAR S SUGGT HARDG SHOULD SPEND EIGHT TO 14 MONTHS FERAL PRISON. BUT KEEN SAID HARDG’S OPERATN WH VTIGATORS MAY WARRANT CUTTG HIM SOME SLACK.”GIVEN THE CHARG, HARDG ULD HAVE BEEN LOOKG AT 35 YEARS PRISON, ACRDG TO A MARCH PRS RELEASE OM THE U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA.BUT PROSECUTORS ALSO CE HARDG’S “GENUE REMORSE AND EXCEPTNAL ACCEPTANCE OF RPONSIBILY,” SUGGTG ULD WARRANT A LOWER SENTENCE.“IN THIS SE, THE NEED FOR GENERAL TERRENCE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR, AND WEIGHS FAVOR OF A GUILE SENTENCE,” ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY JT KEEN WROTE. “HOWEVER, THE GOVERNMENT ACKNOWLEDG THAT MIGATG CIRCUMSTANC — CLUDG HARDG’S GENUE REMORSE AND EXCEPTNAL ACCEPTANCE OF RPONSIBILY — MAY WARRANT A DOWNWARD VARIANCE.”READ MORE: DESANTIS’ SCHOOL VOUCHER PROGRAM GIV PARENTS TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR PLAYSTATNS AND PADDLEBOARDSHARDG, NOW 36, WAS A NSTCTN PROJECT MANAGER WHO STARTED HIS OWN LAWN RE PANY. HE QUICKLY BEME A RIGHT-WG DARLG AFTER HIS ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATN, OFFICIALLY THE PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN ACT, WAS EMBRACED BY FLORIDA GOP GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS, WHO SIGNED TO LAW.HARDG’S STILL ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA ACUNT ON X, FORMERLY KNOWN AS TWTER, HAS A PNED POST OM MARCH OF 2022 THAT READS: “TO THE PARENTS OF FLORIDA: I STAND WH YOU AND I SEE YOU. I’M SORRY THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE BELOW THAT WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS, SEXUALIZE YOUR 6 YEAR OLDS AND LIE TO YOU.”THE END OF HIS B ON X READS: “SPONSOR OF FLORIDA’S PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN BILL, ‘DON’T SAY….'”  CONTUE READGNEWSDESANTIS’ SCHOOL VOUCHER PROGRAM GIV PARENTS TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR PLAYSTATNS AND PADDLEBOARDS
• GAY MARRIAGE WILL LEAD TO POLYGAMY, PEDOPHILIA AND HATE CRIME CLAIMS AGAST PASTORS: JEROME CORSI
• THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI

WHEN LOVE MEETS HATE: THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN STATE POLICI ON GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS AND HATE CRIME INCINCE

Acrdg to the FBI data, of the nearly 1, 200 cints targetg people due to their sexual orientatn, the majory targeted gay men (roughly 60 percent), while approximately 12 percent targeted lbians, 1. 4 percent of all reported hate crime cints last pared to 2017, the number of reported cints targetg the LGBTQ muny creased om 1, 217 to 1, 347, jumpg om roughly 17 percent to 19 percent of each year's total number of reported hate crime particular, reports of anti-trans vlence is growg: Between 2017 and 2018, the number of the reported cints creased 34 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny is timated by Gallup to prise 4.

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‘OUTRAGEO’: EX-GOP LAWMAKER SLAMS DESANTIS FOR NOT MEETG WH BIN AS PRINT TOURS FLORIDA STORM DAMAGEPUBLISHED 53 MS AGO ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2023BY GION RUB – RAW STORY A FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN ON FRIDAY SHOT DOWN FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS’ EXPLANATN FOR WHY HE N’T MEET WH JOE BIN DURG THE PRINT’S PLANNED SUNSHE STATE VIS OVER THE WEEKEND TO ASSS HURRINE IDALIA DAMAGE.ADAM KZGER DURG AN APPEARANCE ON CNN’S “ANRSON COOPER 360” SUGGTED THAT THE DESANTIS MPAIGN WAS MORE NCERNED ABOUT POLIL OPTICS THAN SERVG HIS NSTUENTS, REFLECTG A NEW BRAND OF POLICS — AND HE URGED VOTERS TO “REJECT THAT.”KZGER’S STATEMENT FOLLOWED AN ANNOUNCEMENT OM DESANTIS SPOKMAN JEREMY REDFERN CG LOGISTIL NCERNS.POLL: SHOULD TMP BE ALLOWED TO N FOR OFFICE?“IN THE RAL MUNI, AND SO SOON AFTER IMPACT, THE SECURY PREPARATNS ALONE THAT WOULD GO TO SETTG UP SUCH A MEETG WOULD SHUT DOWN ONGOG REVERY EFFORTS,” REDFERN SAID A STATEMENT OBTAED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRS.GUT HOST JOHN BERMAN ASKED KZGER “DO YOU THK THAT THE DESANTIS TEAM IS WORRIED ABOUT THE LOGISTICS OF , AS THEY SAID THE STATEMENT, OR IS MORE ABOUT THE OPTICS?”THE FORMER JAN. 6 SELECT MTEE MEMBER AND STNCH TMP CRIC WASN’T BUYG .“THERE’S A 1-TO-2 PERCENT CHANCE ’S THE LOGISTICS, THERE’S A 98-TO-99 PERCENT CHANCE ’S THE OPTICS,” KZGER SAID.“LOOK, POLICS HAS BEE…EVEN 10 YEARS AGO THERE WERE MOMENTS YOU ULD PUT POLICS ASI AND DO WHAT YOU WERE ACTUALLY ELECTED TO DO, WHICH IS LEAD, HELP, YOU KNOW, THAT KD OF STUFF. IT HAS NOW FECTED EVERYTHG, AND RON DESANTIS, AT THE ST OF THE BENEF TO FLORIDA, HAS CID HIS POLIL MPAIGN NNOT HAVE HIM MEET WH JOE BIN, THE PRINT OF THE UNED STAT WHO ULTIMATELY, WILL BE SIGNG THE CHECKS THAT FLORIDA IS GOG TO BE BEGGG FOR.”KZGER ADD: “I MEAN IS ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEO THAT AT A MOMENT…I ULDN’T IMAGE BEG A ERNOR OF ANY STATE, HAVG A TRAGEDY LIKE THAT, AND THEN TURNG AROUND AND THKG ABOUT HOW THIS ULD AFFECT MY ELECTN. IT’S JT ’S WHERE WE’RE AT NOW AND PEOPLE HAVE TO JT REJECT THAT.”WATCH THE VIO BELOW OR CLICK THE LK. CONTUE READGNEWSFEDS WANT AUTHOR OF FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL TO DO HARD TIME AFTER COVID RELIEF FRD GUILTY PLEAPUBLISHED 19 HOURS AGO ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2023BY DAVID BADASH FERAL PROSECUTORS ARE SEEKG A PRISON SENTENCE FOR FORMER FLORIDA REPUBLIN STATE LAWMAKER JOE HARDG, THOR OF THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHO PLEAD GUILTY MARCH TO CHARG CLUDG WIRE D, MONEY LNRG, AND MAKG FALSE STATEMENTS TO DULENTLY OBTA $150,000 COVID RELIEF DURG THE PANMIC.“ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY JT KEEN FILED A SENTENCG MEMO ASKG THE URTS TO PUT THE DISGRACED LAWMAKER BEHD BARS,” FLORIDA POLICS REPORTS. “FERAL GUIL AND SENTENCG SIAR S SUGGT HARDG SHOULD SPEND EIGHT TO 14 MONTHS FERAL PRISON. BUT KEEN SAID HARDG’S OPERATN WH VTIGATORS MAY WARRANT CUTTG HIM SOME SLACK.”GIVEN THE CHARG, HARDG ULD HAVE BEEN LOOKG AT 35 YEARS PRISON, ACRDG TO A MARCH PRS RELEASE OM THE U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA.BUT PROSECUTORS ALSO CE HARDG’S “GENUE REMORSE AND EXCEPTNAL ACCEPTANCE OF RPONSIBILY,” SUGGTG ULD WARRANT A LOWER SENTENCE.“IN THIS SE, THE NEED FOR GENERAL TERRENCE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR, AND WEIGHS FAVOR OF A GUILE SENTENCE,” ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY JT KEEN WROTE. “HOWEVER, THE GOVERNMENT ACKNOWLEDG THAT MIGATG CIRCUMSTANC — CLUDG HARDG’S GENUE REMORSE AND EXCEPTNAL ACCEPTANCE OF RPONSIBILY — MAY WARRANT A DOWNWARD VARIANCE.”READ MORE: DESANTIS’ SCHOOL VOUCHER PROGRAM GIV PARENTS TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR PLAYSTATNS AND PADDLEBOARDSHARDG, NOW 36, WAS A NSTCTN PROJECT MANAGER WHO STARTED HIS OWN LAWN RE PANY. HE QUICKLY BEME A RIGHT-WG DARLG AFTER HIS ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATN, OFFICIALLY THE PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN ACT, WAS EMBRACED BY FLORIDA GOP GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS, WHO SIGNED TO LAW.HARDG’S STILL ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA ACUNT ON X, FORMERLY KNOWN AS TWTER, HAS A PNED POST OM MARCH OF 2022 THAT READS: “TO THE PARENTS OF FLORIDA: I STAND WH YOU AND I SEE YOU. I’M SORRY THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE BELOW THAT WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS, SEXUALIZE YOUR 6 YEAR OLDS AND LIE TO YOU.”THE END OF HIS B ON X READS: “SPONSOR OF FLORIDA’S PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN BILL, ‘DON’T SAY….'”  CONTUE READGNEWSDESANTIS’ SCHOOL VOUCHER PROGRAM GIV PARENTS TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR PLAYSTATNS AND PADDLEBOARDS

The church, acrdg to s webse, believ “homosexualy is a s and an abomatn which God punish wh the ath penalty. Among those exampl are a parison of same-sex marriage to a marriage between “a man and his horse”; llg the “It Gets Better” project, an iative signed to help LGBTQ young people pe wh bullyg and margalizatn, “disgtg” and a “ncerted effort” to rec kids to the gay “liftyle”; and claimg that the “blood” of “young Mar” would be on the hands of lawmakers who voted to repeal the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” Fay Rearch Council did not rpond to a requt for ment.

Another “anti-LGBTQ hate group” named the report is the Alliance Defendg Freedom, a nservative Christian legal group wh attorneys across the untry and a long track rerd of ligatg agast LGBTQ a lawsu that ma natnal headl last year, ADF reprented Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who refed to make a ke for a gay weddg, a narrow victory at the Supreme Court. ”Wtboro Baptist Church, known for s public protts that nsistently feature signs wh homophobic msag like “God Hat Fags, ” also appears on the SPLC’s list. Regardg homosexualy, “ is an abomatn, ” Phelps said SPLC stands by s “hate group” signatns and dismissed cricisms that the anizatn disproportnately foc on relig groups.

GAY MARRIAGE WILL LEAD TO POLYGAMY, PEDOPHILIA AND HATE CRIME CLAIMS AGAST PASTORS: JEROME CORSI

Acrdg to Ta Fetner, a soclogy profsor at Canada’s McMaster Universy, anti-LGBTQ activists began anizatn “not too long after Stonewall, ” the 1969 uprisg at the Stonewall Inn, a New York Cy gay bar. “Along the same l that you see today, they put forward stereotyp and vilify, pecially gay men, as predators and predators of children, and e that to jtify the tactics of takg rights way om LGBTQ people, ” Fetner ced as an early example the activism of Ana Bryant Florida.

THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI

The sger-turned-anti-gay-activist was behd the “Save Our Children” mpaign, which 1977 helped overturn a newly passed lol ordance Miami-Da County that prohibed discrimatn based on sexual orientatn employment, hog and public servic. “Young evangelils weren’t as terted anti-gay activism as the olr folks, ” she said. At the same time, acceptance of homosexualy was on the rise the U.

Reached a tippg pot for acceptance of homosexualy, acrdg to a Pew study, and by 2016, LGBTQ advot had solidified many civil rights gas, such as the legalizatn of same-sex are we seeg a surge? “I thk that anti-gay activism is swept up as part of this new social embrace of tolerance and right-wg attus of all kds, ” Fetner said. Even before the shootg rampage at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people were already the most likely targets of hate crim Ameri, acrdg to an analysis of data llected by the Feral Bure of Invtigatn.

Senator Mch McConnell of Kentucky, the majory lear, has omted any mentn of gays when talkg about the massacre, and Reprentative Pete Ssns of Texas has said the se of the shootg was not a gay club. And the nightclub, Pulse, on s Twter acunt, billed self as “Orlando’s premier gay ultra lounge, nightclub and bar.