Hate groups are generally classified as any group whose speech "maligns or demeans" an entire group of people, usually based on immutable characteristics.
Some might argue that the Civil Rights Act should be limited to discrimination based on immutable characteristics like race or national origin, not acts of volition.
It's wrong, because it is discrimination based on immutable characteristics and is absolutely unconnected with any interest the scouts could have other than to maintain a worldview that is at odds with basic facts about sexuality and is hurtful.
"Proposed Definition: Sex means a person's status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth," the memo reads.
And when a law targets vulnerable minorities based on immutable qualities such as sex, race or national origin, courts require more than rationality; they require a substantial or compelling reason.
Whereas physical scientists can use laws of nature to help guide projections of the future based on immutable principles of physics, chemistry and biology, this is not true of the financial world even in the best of times.
One should consider that the name RIDGE, albeit implying potential for gene expression, is based on immutable hardwire DNA features, which do not imply gene expression in a particular cellular system.
The fact that the FBI even thought this was an appropriate program is alarming, especially to introduce in social studies class, and seems as a way to train children from a very young age that surveillance and singling out people based on an immutable characteristic is okay.
"It's really focused on immutable characteristics," Goodman said.
"It's really focused on immutable characteristics," Allison Goodman, regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, Thed The Advocate of the current state statute.
In medical school, we were taught that although cancer comes in many forms, it has one immutable characteristic: it is composed of immature cells.
