Monthly Archives: August 2006

Legislators to Make Ridiculing the Obese a Hate Crime

What about a Quarterback Who Calls a Lineman ‘Lardass’?
A bipartisan group of Mississippi state legislators plans to introduce legislation that would make it a hate crime to poke fun at or otherwise ridicule fat people.
The lawmakers’ move comes a day after the release of a national study that again found Mississippi to be the [...]