Word to would-be assailants: Don’t scream anti-gay epithets at your assailants, or you’re on the hook for a hate crime. We’re talking to you Robert Bellamy Jr. (and your two accomplices), who’s suspected of attacking two men on Halloween.

While there’s no official confirmation either victims are LGBT, one was dressed in drag, which is enough for New York cops to investigate the Long Island attack — punching the victims in the faces and knocking them to the ground, in order to steal $7 — as a hate crime.

As Ballamy told police, according to court records: “God made me hate gay people.” Well, maybe his religious beliefs will help him get off!