Posted by
Billy on Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:39:42 AM
Jonathan Saenz of the Texas-based
Free Market Foundation says lawmakers in The Lone Star State are targeting young children with a "hate crimes" bill.
HB 824 targets children as young as ten years of age who are allegedly guilty of hate crimes.
"If they committed some crime and it had to do with the issue of 'sexual preference' -- particularly the issue of homosexuality -- they could be punished," he says, "and a judge could order them to go to a program where they have to accept the other side and accept the views of homosexuality."
According to Saenz, even more punishment could be doled out. "[T]he judge could [also] order them to do community service where they have to do a project in the homosexual community that serves the homosexual community's interest," he offers.
(Children should be taught to respect others and punished when they don't. However that teaching should come from the home or the church and the punishment should come from the home. Children should not be placed in places where the values of their parents are put down. Read more on this issue
TX 'hate crimes' bill targets children.)