In 2003 gay males were 1451.52 times as likely to be victims of simple

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assult in a hate crime than Christians. Three times as many gay males died as the result of hate crimes than there were Protestants either assulted (2), killed (0), or raped (0). (actual numbers were 288 simple assults of gay males versus three of Christians).

The figures for Jews are also pretty bad. Jews, who make up only 1.3% of the population were assulted 47 times in 2003, vs 6 for Christians as a whole and 2 for Protestants. That made them 455.54 times as likely to be assulted as Christians as a whole, and 814 2/3 times as likely to be assulted as Protestants.

The figures for Muslims are worse. 33 anti Islamic assults for 0.5% of the population which translates to 831.6 and a whopping 1716 times as likely than Christians and Protestants respectively.

Sources:

http://www.teachingaboutreligion.org/Demographics/map_demographics.htm

for religious demographics as of 2001

http://www.ncjrs.org/hate_crimes/facts.html

go to Hate Crime Statistics. 2003 (link in text) for hate crimes in 2003.

I used the standard 10% lesbian and gay figure and assumed that males and females were equally likely to be homosexual. (note that likely inflated the number of gay males which makes my number low, not high)

My point in posting this, aside from playing with statistics and keeping my mind sharp for next fall, is to point out the utter absurdity in this idiotic notion that Christians are somehow being targetted.

We have had 43 consecutive Christian Presidents vs 0 lesbian or gay ones, 0 black ones, 0 Jewish ones, 0 Muslim ones, and 0 Hispanic ones. The current Senate has 9 Jews and 91 Christians vs 1 black, 2 Hispanics, 14 women, 0 gays or lesbians, 0 Muslims.

Give me a break.

[rustedace]

1. Your not making sense

Blacks, women, gays and hispanics can all be Christians

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2. If you are referring to the Hate Crime stats

I am using the motivation they use in the table (at the link I provided and detailed how to find), but yes some of the gays who were attacked my well have been Christians. In the Senate numbers, yes both Hispanics are Christian to give one example, and I think most of the women are as well (Feinstein and Boxer are the only Jewish women Senators I can think of off the top of my head) But my point is that Christians are overrepresented in the Senate (they should have around 76 Senators and actually have 91) while women are very underrepresented (they should have 51 or 52 and actually have 14).

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3. Freeptards insist there is a "war on christianity" in this country

even though your statistics clearly prove them wrong.

the extreme right WANTS a religious war in this country because they're convinced they're on the winning team. they're too simple minded to take into consideration how many gays and other minorities consider themselves to be christian and do NOT stand with the religious right... they stand with the religious LEFT!!

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4. they need their petty wars

without their imagined culture war, without every slight injustice being a sign of a grave attack on their religion and race, the base of the Reactionary Party has nothing to motivate them.

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5. actually if I wanted to be really provocative

I could point out that one had a greater chance of winning the powerball lottery, getting struck by lightning and getting killed by a terrorist in 2003 than one did of getting killed, raped, or victimized by an aggravated assult for being a Protestant in the same year.

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6. kick