hate crime protections were created under the two thousand and six law of the matthew shepard and james byrd jr hate crimes protection prevention act so in a moving plea for equality the plaintive evoked in our wally and world where a special class of people example gay people are more equal than others they also argue that the government elevates those engaged in certain deviant behaviors to a special protected class of persons under federal law you know the government always step begin to protect those deviants but i think in my favor argument there is as the bill criminalizes certain ideas beliefs and opinions which is simply not true it was acknowledged the first time that this lawsuit was thrown out in september of two thousand and ten as eric holder stated then the act does not prescribe speech it prohibits only violent conduct and includes specific provisions and sharing that may not be applied to infringe any rights guaranteed by the first amendment so is the act criminalized hate speech or as glenn described described. thought crimes i'm pretty sure the gary and his cohorts would have