So, now it isn't a hate crime?

Best man charged with setting Hampton newlyweds' house on fire.

He would not say what the motive was, but said it was not racially driven. Del. Thomas Gear, R-Hampton, the bride's father, had feared the blaze could have been a hate crime.

Well, excuse me, but just the fact that the idiot who set the fire was the best man does not mean it wasn't a crime of hate. This speaks volumes of how stupid hate crime legislation is. Is one murder more hateful than another? Is this act of arson less hateful now that it turns out to have been set by a "friend?"