A South Carolina state representative is under fire after he made a controversial Facebook post last week expressing his disapproval of the state’s new hate crime bill. Rep. Victor Dabney, a 63-year-old Republican lawmaker from Kershaw County, made the comments on social media before the hate crime bill passed on April 7 in the House of Representatives by a vote of 79-29 with bipartisan support. The bill increases fines and jail time for crimes committed based on a victim’s race, religion, sex, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability. For violent crimes including murder, armed robbery, and criminal sexual conduct, it allows penalties of five years and up to $10,000 in fines to be added to a sentence. South Carolina is one of just three states without hate crime penalties.