None of these help immediately with people who have a moral objection to thinking or tolerating, but I still think that making prejudiced asshats socially unfashionable goes farther than legal measures.

Of course, a nice trebuchet with a three ton counterweight makes them go even farther . . . ;0)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY

It is if one extreme (as in those on the far Right) or the other (as in the far Left) or groups from both, give every evidence that they are building themselves up to carrying out a campaign of sectarian violence.

We have Christianist "warriors" praying for the deaths of public officials and private citizens, There have been articles in the press (and I wish I could remeember when and where I saw them — but definitely within the past two months) about how every time in the past the "right" has worked itself up publicly like they have been doing lately, they have alwayss followed it up with violence against those they rallied the 'faithful' against.

I remember trouble with the John Birchers (conservatives all) bombing places when I was a kid. We also had fruitcake organizations blowing up banks and robbing them while pretending to be political radicals liberating something (their own poverty, at a guess, except for Patty Hurst) or other. And real political radicals both violent (Black Panthers) and very peaceful (Dr. M.L. King).

It's the Fed's job when local law enforcement gladly turns over minority prisoners to mobs of any kind for lynching, whether a mob entirely of the likes of the KKK or any other mixture of seething, hating, people.