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"Or would such a vote not sit well with Tennessee Republicans?"

Of course not! Republicans think that if you are gay/lesbian/transgendered, that you are by choice. Their solution? To pray for you. And if praying doesn't work, then ostracize you from society.

The LGBT freaks already enjoy the same rights we have. There are laws on the books against shootings, beatings, you name it.

There's no point in having hate crime laws. It should be as obvious as a man in a dress that these laws have no deterrent effect. What we really need is a justice system that works.

People sometimes react in an instinctive, visceral way to anything deviant or different. The best way to prevent attacks on perverts is to make it less apparent that you're a pervert.

"we're taking a baby step toward affording the LGBT community the same rights we all enjoy."

Pure nonsense.

They already have the same rights as everyone else.

So-called "hate crime" laws are nothing but PC bullshit.

The heinouness of any crime is determined exclusively by the damage inflicted on the victim - not the (alleged) reason why the perpetrator was commiting the crime.

A victim who is killed by a home invasion robber is every bit as dead as someone killed because some perpetrator didn't like their sexual orientation. The latter crime is not one iota worse than the former.

There are already laws on the books against murder, assault, etc. They are plenty sufficient to prosecute anyone who commits any of those crimes no matter what the purported reason for them doing so.