P.Z. Myers in the news (the catholic church communion wafer incident)

Let me doubt the reality of transubstantiation here for a minute.... I can still think of a cause to view it another way. Like the Catholic League said in the article that the OP linked to, this was a "hate crime", well... it would have been if there had there been a criminal offense. According to wikipedia:

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A hate crime is a criminal offense committed against a person or property motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a racial group, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, or disability.

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Now, if I take your attitude towards hate crimes against Catholics, and replace it with some other racial group, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, or disability term.... I'll use "gay-retarded-black-jews" in an attempt to equally offend everyone so I don't get accused of discrimination. Is that any more annoying? Or does it not being a criminal offense mean that it is "nothing"?To me, it seemed like a pretty shitty thing to do.... criminal or not, this was a hate crime in my book (he didn't technically "steal" it, but he stole it)Now, its not a cause for death threats, but there's cause to view it more than:

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he stole a small piece of bread

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