It seems to me that would be a question of fact in a case. Your example that if somebody creates some sort of mischief against the house and it's not directed toward the prayer group that's meets there every third Thursday or something, then it would be treated as mischief because there's no evidence that it was specific to that particular religious group.
I'm worried about the present definitions being so broad that—and I know of one case, a religious group that meets in a room in an office building every Sunday, but the building is not primarily used for religious purposes. It just happens to get rented. If somebody trashes the building on a Wednesday, okay, that's a crime; I agree with you. But for provisions of a hate crime, there would have to be something directing it specifically at that group that's holding their religious services there on a Sunday morning. It seems to me that's what we want to capture.
My colleague pointed out, as others have, that you say “primarily used”. In this day and age you can have religious services or any other services. This is very broad, and it would be a question of fact whether the damage, the mischief that was done, was specifically a hate crime toward that group. I think that would be covered in here. Otherwise you're going to have a situation.... For instance, the groups that I mentioned that rent a room because they can't afford to have their own religious building somewhere, wouldn't be covered by this. I'm hoping you will accept the amendment on this.