Ten states, largely in the South and Southwest, do not have any hate-crime legislation.

The argument that hate-crime legislation would criminalize thought or speech is false.

She said that the couple also decline to involve themselves in a movement for hate-crime legislation that has grown up around the incident.

I don't think they want him to be the reason for hate-crime legislation.

"The purpose of the hate-crime legislation seems to be just to silence those of us who oppose homosexuality," she said.

More than 40 other states have approved some form of hate-crime legislation.

The claim is that hate-crime legislation effectively makes certain ideas or beliefs, including religious ones, illegal, in other words, thought crimes.

This is a fair statement but it has nothing to do with hate-crime legislation.

The political system has felt compelled to respond, with most states adopting some form of hate-crime legislation.

The new states' rights doctrines would also undermine any future Congressional effort to pass hate-crime legislation.