11.   Hate crime laws require spending more money on prisons, instead of investing it in healthy community activities.

12.   Hate crimes laws are politically popular at the moment, so lawmakers from coast to coast are rushing to adopt them with no serious consideration of the long-term repercussions.

13.   He also emphasized the use of the hate crimes law by prosecutors.

14.   Gore said he would support a stiff hate crimes penalties, and chided Bush for not supporting a tough hate crimes law in Texas.

15.   He has opposed legislation extending hate crime laws to cover gays.

16.   However, Bush did say he was opposed to including homosexuals in the hate crimes law.

17.   In the second presidential debate, Bush hid from his silence on hate crime laws by bragging how the killers of James Byrd Jr. would get the ultimate penalty.

18.   Instead, he said, hate crime laws send a clear message that society does not tolerate attacks on minorities.

19.   It has a hate crimes law and allows gays and lesbians to adopt children.

20.   Meanwhile, the Clinton administration urged Congress to include sexual orientation under the federal hate crimes law.