Normal Is As Normal Does, Except with "Hate Crimes"

Normal Is As Normal Does, Except with “Hate Crimes”

What’s normal?

It used to be that “normal” was one of those words that didn’t really need defining. The meaning was understood and had universal agreement as to its meaning.

Normal was as normal does, Forrest Gump might say, as in conforming to accepted standard, natural, usual, and conventional.

Like so many other things in our topsy-turvey, increasingly bizarre contemporary world and society, normality is now subject to debate, thanks primarily to the social ascendancy of homosexuals and the Gay Lobby.

Normal is about to become abnormal and its antithesis, the weird, twisted, and abnormal, will be decreed as the norm and may God forbid former normals contest the new norms!

Hate and hatred are two other words that used not to require definition. There were degrees of hatred but whatever the degree it still meant to dislike, scorn, or loathe.

Thus, a few generations back, if we had heard of a “Hate Crimes Bill,” we would with reasonable confidence assume it would entail penalties for commission of a hateful crime.

That was then, this is now.

In days of old, twenty years back, a proposal to penalize hatred would never have made it to the stage where it could be declared a crime.

It couldn’t logically or legislatively be deemed criminal since criminals had to DO something, commit some act which the Powers-That-Be, acting on behalf of the general public, found culpable and worthy of punishment.

That was then, this is now.

Hatred, as with love, anger, frustration, etc. are not acts. They are emotions, feelings, thoughts that should fall short of execution of a crime.

If John Doe detested his despicable boss or if Jane Doe loved her married boss and never acted on those emotions, how could they be condemned?

How would their feelings even be known unless John repeatedly flipped his employer the bird or Jane grabbed her boss’s butt at the water cooler? Those would be acts as opposed to mere thoughts and, again, back in the olden days, our thoughts were our own.

And legislation was a tad more rational.

That was then, this is now.

In the twenty-first century, emotions and thoughts are about to become federal crimes if the mind readers in Congress, under pressure from that Gay Lobby, get their way.

For background on this issue, please see “All Conservatives Will Be ‘Hate Criminals’ under H.R.1913.RFS,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1070. Also, . . .

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