By Allie Martin
March 28, 2001

(AgapePress) - A pro-family activist in Michigan says a new book shows that homosexuals who favor "hate crimes" legislation should instead be trying to push for legislation protecting them from domestic assaults from their own partners.

Throughout the nation, homosexual lobbyists are trying to convince lawmakers to pass hate crimes legislation, which would increase the punishment for those who commit crimes against homosexuals because they do not agree with that lifestyle.

But Gary Glenn, Director of the American Family Association of Michigan, says new research shows that homosexuals need legislation protecting them from their live-in partners.

“The bottom line is, a man involved in homosexual behavior is 500 times more likely to be the victim of violence, violent assault at the hands of his own homosexual ‘lover’ --a ‘love crime’ -- than he is to be a victim of a so-called ‘hate crime’ committed against him by someone who doesn’t like the fact that he’s involved in that kind of lifestyle,” Glenn says.

Glenn’s data are based on research found in the book Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: Battered Gay Men and Domestic Violence. The book is written by David Island and Patrick Letellier, two homosexual researchers.

The book estimated that 650,000 homosexual men are victims of domestic violence each year, compared to figures from the FBI which showed that last year 1,300 hate crimes were reported against homosexuals.

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