Laws against discrimination

i just want to make clear; that what I am doing is what i consider the person who truly believes and has a working faith truly hopes, truly cares , and each day does the very best with what is actually available. to the casual observer giant acts of faith and courage might be over looked by busy people or even worse people who actually try to push or pull you in the wrong direction without even asking you where you wanted to go and what you hoped and dreamed of trying to do and why. .. communication is a two 2 way exchange or it has not happened you have ...i'll let you fill in the blanks and they happen every day..

there are already laws against discrimination.. i guess the question is why aren't they actually enforced... you do realize i am a college trained artist that does public performance art don't you. my speciallty is freedom of speech gently but reality art is now taking the lead. In life sometimes reality 8is stranger than fiction I consider you my friend i have never met.. sometimes in real life the person doing the performance art also may have a serious physical problem and insufficient insurance or money and be forced to set little pieces of themselves on fire to sea, ... see, if anything is possible when you know the horrible truth of your own reality..

should have said lapro-scopic surgery i really am dyslexic and a poor typer

and no it would not be helpfulto send tallhassee law enforcement people to come i will not open the door they wil have to illegally break it down if it come to that i am well aware if the different rights a person has on the inside of thier house and the outside yes myactual dr works with and for fsu in tallhassee that in itself is conflict of interest.. i welcome any one on the phone or in person and yes i want to make all of my own chices this is america and yes it is true that they in real life wheni was working on my masters degree had to rush me from thagart health center. to the hospital for polariscope bowel surgery and yes i had peritonitis i do appoligize for imposing but i see my real options as very limited by reality not fantasy

hello my freind i have never mer. i am well aware it is october 26, and it is monda, i do comprehend that barrack oboma is the president of the united states.. i do have the mental abilty to know i live in tallahassee florids , i even know what and nmda inhibitor is and tha is n-mety d-asparte i do understand fully ho this works in the human brain with regard to excito toxiclty i have a very good science back ground .. i am in all sincerity begging any body any where before it is actually to lat to get me to shands teaching hospital in gainesville, or johns hopkins hospital. i do not have the money to pay for wht i may need ..i may be worth saving as a human being or to at least try. no i do not want anydr. in tallhassee for 2 reasons to say here but the most rudimentary of checking will quickly maybe enplane why. i am dyslexic and a poor typer yes my situation in tallhasse is complicate dand maybe i could have handled some things better .. but i will stand on myactual performance as a man and human being .. iam how ever ironically it might sem in Gods hand. and yes thats how i have always tryed to live my live. i truely admire you and your family i might share some of the same views on peace i am have severe real not imagined neurological symptoms rabies has not been scientifically eliminated but i have a history of abscess close to my brain. no test for rabies will be given in talhassee all door closed. i am truely in gods hand janis joplin was right i have no doors in tallhassee i would trust for obvious reasons any one who actuallylooked at the facts would quickly underst b. keith vipperman a real human being

"Can law help change the perceptions of people? A law may stop people from showing their hate but it will never eliminate hate. A law can only protect a person from the physical manifestation of hate, but it cannot transform the hater. This is abundantly clear in the race prejudices."

I'd say, Mr. Gandhi, that you cannot legislate 'hearts and minds.' Those who wish to excuse and ignore hate crimes, in fact, base their position on the idea that one can and, if they don't happen to like the groups most commonly-victimized, should not.

In America, extending the hate crimes laws to people of all sexual orientations does have much more real and practical effects, as well as social ones.

The practical ones are that if a community, police included, either tacitly condones such terror, or simply cannot afford to pursue the investigations and prosecutions of the offenders, because the law leaves systemic and often extreme brutality classed along with the average brawl in the street or mugging... the hate crimes law allows the Federal government to support local communities in pursuing justice. And to let the Feds come in if the locals actually support terrorizing the LBGTs, women, and disabled in their communities.

The other reason, more social, and subtle, is that lack of including the groups newly covered in civil rights protections ignores this simple fact:

Bullies are cowards.

If you look away from what they do, they will claim it's on your behalf that they do what they do.

Clear signal. 'Society does not approve of this hate.'

Funny how so many religious sects who claim to 'hate only the sin' are terrified they'll be held responsible (which was never in this law) for at first justifying the hatred, and then looking the other way when someone believes them.

I've been in the debate all this time, online, and *not a single one* of them has been willing to even admit that these crimes happen. Or they say shouting at a Mormon over them bankrolling the stripping of civil rights is 'the same' as what LBGTs are subjected to, or at least have to live in real worry over, every day.

*That's* where the law can help with hearts and minds.

Some of those hearts and minds are smaller than others, and think all that is not 'forbidden' is mandatory and encouraged.