The largest risk for any assault on a gay person if for male homosexuals abusing each other. They single out their targets because they are gay. Perhaps this law will have the unintended consequence of putting gay men in prison for longer terms.

Sir;...Instead of making a law against hate crimes they should make a law against hate... Then of course, they would have to make a law against ignorance and fear...And they would have to stuff socks in the mouths of every politician or minister at some point or another...I would like to eliminate the word from the lexicon...I hear even my own children use it all the time: I hate this, and I hate that, or I hate him or her...Hate is so much easier than love, and yet it saps so much energy...Is it any wonder half of the population is on anti depressants and the rest are on coke or energy drinks???You know; I blame the rich, but I do not hate them...It is because I understand that in making the world miserable for money, the rich are no less secure or happy than the rest of us...How do you hate some one who feels the same pain they inflict, and yet inflict it anyway... One fact I see clearly; and it is that when laws do not result in justice, then more and more laws are required until society becomes over burdened with laws and lawyers and judges and cops and prisons, and yet needs ever more of law... Ius (Justice) is the Genus, and Lex (Law) is a species of it; said Abalard...And I agree...Forget law...Give justice...Do not go to court for it...Give Justice to your fellow man in everything you do...If we all have justice we will find our need and desire for law is minimized...Thanks...Sweeney