On its face, the attack appears to be a cut-and-dry hate crime involving a man whose apparent hatred of Mexicans motivated him to threaten and attack members of the Latino community. Because Utah’s hate crime code is essentially “unenforceable” and the state’s Legislature refuses to do anything about it. In early 2016, Utah state Sen. Steve Urquhart (R) sponsored a bill that would strengthen the state’s hate crime legislation. When Urquhart did not seek re-election in 2016, Utah state Sen. Daniel Thatcher (R) adopted the hate crimes legislation crusade as his own. It just seems to me that it’s a slam-dunk for a religion to be against hate crimes.

Source: Huffington Post December 05, 2018 17:02 UTC