Comments on: Hate Crimes Against Gays Rise in L.A.

By: Brian St Germain

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:55:56 +0000

PROP 8 commercials gave the green light to hatred of gays.

By: sborra

sborra — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:03:04 +0000

Luogo che grande avete ottenuto! Scommettevo che siete professionisti!

By: Don

Don — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:57:47 +0000

This is a terrible number, but we are hardly alone. This afternoon on Sirius Out Q I listened to the GLBT news. The announcer noted that hate crimes against the GLBT community in Colorado (home of Focus on the Family and James Dobbs) have risen 100% – yes you read it correctly and I swear I heard it correctly. One hundred percent. Of course the truly devestating number is neither of these, but the percentile garnered when you consider, at least in the instance of the latter, that it is a one hundred percent increase against less than ten percent of the population. Read it again. A 100% increase of hate crimes directly focused at 10% or less of Colorado’s population. That is the genuinely frightening statistic in my book. Whether there are statistics to bear it out or not, it is hardly surprising that a hate mongering anti-gay group such as FOTF is flourishing in Colorado Springs, is it?

By: John

John — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:52:46 +0000

This headline is more than a little misleading. Hate crimes have gone up in general (and by a much larger margin in categories other than sexual orientation). Everything in the world doesn’t have to revolve around us.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:29:37 +0000

Um, perhaps paragraph number 12 could have been reworked as the lead, considering the headline emphasis is on hate crimes against gays? Jeez, c’mon editors!

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:28:51 +0000

Black versus Latino violence seems to be getting higher every year. Sometimes it’s hard to figure what is gang violence and what are non-gang hate crimes.

By: Booglie

Booglie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:44:06 +0000

Crime goes up as prices, and other costs goes up, and incomes goes down. I think it may be possible that people who are prone to this type of crime are more likely to act on it now out of frustration at “their situations” getting worse. It does not justify this behavior but expect it and all crime to get worse as the economy gets worse.