Reply #63: I disagreed with one of your comments. That does not equate to my

[No Elephants]

"needing" anything in particular. I never said a thing about the length of the sentence or about Matthew Shepard. I also said nothing about punishing speech or feelings. To the contrary, I specifically said that I supposed people were entitled to their biases. What I DID say was that a problem occurs under hate crime legislation when you combine racial epithets with beating someone to death. I also specified that I had mixed feelings about hate crime legislation. So, yes, you do "digress" quite a bit.

IMO, your "response" to me is dishonest in light of what I actually posted. Then again, I thought your narrative in the post to which I was responding was slanted in only one direction as well. Maybe that's simply how you try to make your points?