AFA: Gawd-fearing Christians and Jews must rise up against Dem laws to protect gays from hate

[marmar]

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From the American Family Assn.'s barking-at-cars crazy website:

April 25, 2007

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Democrats set to deliver on campaign promise to homosexuals this week

H.R. 1592 dangerously lays groundwork for silencing Christian viewpoint on homosexuality

Did you know your constitutionally guaranteed “First Freedoms” to free speech and religious expression as an American are under attack as never before?

It’s true. Thanks to the new and unabashedly pro-homosexual Democrat leadership in Congress, Bible-believing Christians and Jews face an onslaught of bills that will inevitably create federally protected “class status” for homosexuals, bisexuals, transvestites, “transgender” and “transsexual” persons.

Specifically, I’m talking about the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Protection Act (H.R. 1592) and the “Employment Nondiscrimination Discrimination Act” (ENDA).

Please don’t be deceived: while “hate crimes” and “nondiscrimination” laws sound noble and high-minded, they aim to normalize homosexuality and “transgenderism” in all arenas of society – and to silence and punish all opposing viewpoints. Read the excellent article by Peter Sprigg of Family Research Council, “What's Wrong with Thought Crimes ('Hate Crimes') Laws?”

Of immediate concern is H.R. 1592 – the “hate crimes” bill that was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in March. This bill establishes a new federal offense for “hate crimes” and adds “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes in the U.S. criminal code. These classes are based solely upon unverifiable self-identification and/or sexual behavior.

Ominously, this bill mandates a separate federal criminal prosecution for state offenses – with the possibility of life imprisonment – for crimes motivated by actual or perceived “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Significantly, H.R. 1592 doesn’t even define what the term “sexual orientation” means!

Obviously, we have many concerns with a bill like this – including the fact that it is constitutionally suspect, unfair, dangerous, indefinable, unnecessary and un-American.

And not only does H.R. 1592 violate the concept of equal protection under the law by granting more government protection to certain classes of people, it is a clear overreach of federal power – allowing the federal government to intervene in local and state affairs.

But even more chilling is the fact that H.R. 1592 paves the way to religious persecution – with “hate crimes” laws inevitably leading to “hate speech” laws targeted specifically at Christians and other faith groups who hold traditional beliefs on homosexuality.

Already this has happened in Canada, Sweden, Belgium, France, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, England, and New Zealand. Even here in the United States in Philadelphia, Christians have been arrested and jailed under a state “hate crimes” law.

Let’s face it: homosexual and transgender activists know full well that the church is one of last bastions in Western culture that has yet to cave in to the demands of a radical agenda that seeks to redefine fundamental concepts such as marriage, family and gender.

Here’s the bottom line: If this Thought Crimes law passes, your right to share politically incorrect parts of your Christian faith could, in fact, become a federal crime.

Clearly, a grave threat to our civil liberties and the liberties of our children and grandchildren is now upon us.

http://www.afa.net/hr1592.htm

[BOSSHOG]

1. Just as I thought

Christians have no desire to live in the land of the free. I'll hold the border open for them while they leave.

It really is a shame that they should not spew hate which leads to physical injury or death to others. Its such a christian thing to do.

[hobbit709]

4. If the religious nutjobs ever really got into power

in this country and ran it the way they wanted, it wouldn't take long for them to be at each others' throats over doctrinal differences. Each Sect would want THEIR rules and ONLY their rules applied. It would look like the Kilkenny Cats gone totally berserk. They all want to take over South Carolina/ I say put all of them there, put up a 50-foot wall and let them go at it.

[BOSSHOG]

6. You mean like Sunnis and Shiites?

A very appropriate comparison. dobson is nothing more then a radical christian cleric who does not deserve his citizenship or the sham we call tax exemption.

[hobbit709]

9. I'd say worse

The two main sects of Islam are the Sunni and the Shia, but we have a much bigger selection among the Christians. If only there would be no collateral damage, it would be fun to watch.

[BOSSHOG]

2. And are they admitting

that they cannot talk about homosexuals without using hateful speech, with hateful intent and hate in their hearts? That's exactly what this defender of the constitution is hearing from the constitution hating AFA.

[marmar]

3. "they cannot talk about homosexuals without using hateful speech"

Exactly.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Christians being "targeted" in Canada?

That's news to me.

[Somawas]

7. I get their email alerts

through an email address registered to one Geli Raubal. (No one has caught the joke.) They are simply not quite rational about this topic. HR 1592 would not punish speech or thought unless such speech or thought were coupled with actual violence. Conceptually, however, I do have a problem with the idea that being a racist assailant is any worse than being an assailant. I don't see violence coupled with class hatred as being more deserving of punishment than violence.

[EST]

8. Truly astounding.

None so blind and all that. They whine and complain, attempting to convince the feeble-minded that they are being persecuted and victimized, all the while utilizing the very hate, hate speech and victimization they claim to despise. They vomit the same poison they pretend others reserve for them.
Of course, they will get what they want most. If they continue this crap, they will actually achieve the hate for themselves that they claim. Disgusting, disturbing people.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. I'm sitting here, crying my eyes out for this poor persecuted 'Christians'. Not.

[iamthebandfanman]

11. lol i love this part of it

"Please don’t be deceived: while “hate crimes” and “nondiscrimination” laws sound noble and high-minded, they aim to normalize homosexuality and “transgenderism” in all arenas of society – and to silence and punish all opposing viewpoints. "

lol
yeah, you mean silencing YOUR HATE so you hafta talk about it in private with your other bigot friend ? sure.
lol