Hate crime bill

Today the house is going to vote on including gays in the hate crime bill. (http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/10/09/1008414/adl1) The argument is that gays should not be made as 2nd class citizen by not being included in the hate crime bill. There are many violent crimes against gays so they should be protected under hate crime bill.

I am ok with that. But then there is another question, what about fat and ugly people? there are also many violent crimes against them. I personally know kids in school get beat up because they are fat. By not including fat and ugly people then are we saying they are 2nd class citizen? Then what about alcoholics who argue they have a proven genes that contribute to their alcoholism. Should they not be protected under hate crime bill if they get beat up because a drunk? As you can see, the problem is very apparent that if you protect a few special groups under hate crime bill, then other groups can argue they need to be protected as well otherwise it constitutes discrimination.

for example, 2 friends are walking down the street. one is fat and one is gay. 2 gangsters came and said to one "we are going to beat you up because you are fat" and to the other "we are going to beat you up because you are gay" so one gangster punched the gay person and the other punched the fat person. Then the gangsters are arrested and prosecuted. Even though they both committed exactly the same violent crime originated from hatred, one who beat up the gay person gets 10 yrs and the one who beat up the fat person gets 5 years. How f*cked up is this? Either both should get 10 yrs or both should get 5 yrs. How can we live in a society where there are specially protected groups? How would you feel if we live in a society that punishes criminals more if they victimized a wealthy white person vs a poor black person? wouldn't you say that we should punish crimes equally regardless who the victim is?

The current way of hate bill basically said "hey if you want to earn the privilege of being specially protected, you must pay a lot of money to democrats in the form of campaign contribution just like gays did. BUT if you don't, then your group of people will be 2nd class citizen and won't be protected even though you suffer as much or more hate than gays do, just like, for example, fat or ugly people." This is black mail.

so what's the solution? well, it's either abolish the hate crime bill and punish criminals equals so we don't have "superior" groups of people to protect OR expand the hate crime bill to say if anyone commits a crime against another person(s) based on any attributes of that person (race, sex, immigration status, fatness, ugliness, orientation, political views, etc.) then that constitutes hate crime. I am in favor of 2nd option because hate crime is hate crime regardless what that person is hating. Hate against gays is the same as hate against blacks and same as hate against fat people and so on so forth. Hate is hate. why should we make some hate more criminal than others. If we as a society truly believes in stamping out hate crimes then let's stamp out all hate crimes as oppose to only stamping out hate crimes against groups that paid a lot of money to democrats in the form of campaign contribution.