Might want to elaborate on that statement a little...

Woops, now I’ve really gotten off track. I think hate-crime legislation is wrong because it puts us in the position of judging people’s moral values. While I believe there are objective moral values that we should all adopt, to judge a person based on what they believe is horrid. First, it’s speculative that you can even say with any certainty what a defendant believes. Second, though I believe in a moral absolute I don’t think we all agree on what it is and so it’d be crazy to try and judge people based on their morals. Instead we can only judge actions (Bitt’s point earlier). Hate-crime legislation is the first step toward prosecution people based on their beliefs instead of their actions.