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The good news: hate crimes were down by 6%. The inter­est­ing news: “The major­i­ty of those incidents—46.9 percent—were racial­ly moti­vat­ed, fol­lowed by 20.8 per­cent moti­vat­ed by sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion and 19.8 per­cent moti­vat­ed by reli­gion. Inci­dents of reli­gious bias had pre­vi­ous­ly out­num­bered inci­dents of sex­u­al-ori­en­ta­tion bias since at least 1995…”  Things that sur­prised me: how few hate crimes there are over­all, how much greater anti-Jew­ish ani­mus is than anti-any oth­er reli­gion, and how much more preva­lent racial hos­til­i­ty is than any oth­er cat­e­go­ry.

For the First Time, Hate Crimes Against Gays Out­num­ber Those Against Reli­gion: Reli­gious bias had out­num­bered sex­u­al-ori­en­ta­tion bias since at least 1995.

At Chris­tian­i­ty Today, we’re con­stant­ly track­ing impor­tant devel­op­ments in the church and the world. Often we use our net­work of reporters around the world (and for that, vis­it our main site). But we …