Homosexual activists, unable to persuade even the people of Calif. To change the definition of marriage to legitimize their lifestyle, are resorting to a backdoor approach to accomplish the same thing: pushing federal hate crime legislation while few are paying attention.
We better wake up because the House Judiciary committee has already approved Barney Franks bill, H.R. 1913. The full House is expected to vote on the bill April 29th . Various liberal groups, liberal religious organizations, and gay activists are engaged in a full court press to get this bill passed.
The bill would make it a federal crime to willfully cause bodily injury to someone, because of his or her sex orientation or gender identity.
The bill violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection by the notion that certain groups of citizens such as homosexuals are entitled to greater legal protection than others.
Most likely the purpose of this bill is to criminalize thought, especially politically incorrect belief that homosexual behavior is either abnormal or sinful. It is to make a statement that this belief constitutes “hate” and possibly to lay the groundwork for outlawing speech expressing this belief, including from the pulpit.
The practice of criminalizing peaceful expression of this belief has already occurred in other nations, including Sweden, Canada, and Great Britain, and even in our own Philadelphia.
New York City authorities ordered the removal of billboards, that display various biblical versions of Leviticus 18:22 “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a women; this is detestable”. Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari condemned the language in the displayed verse as “mean-spirited” and “hate speech”
Irrespective of your opinion on Homosexual behavior, it is a distortion of the English language to say that it is hateful to believe it is somehow abnormal or sinful. One can disapprove of behavior without hating those engaging in it; indeed the Bible exhorts Christians to love not hate. If you want to witness a clinic in “hate”, watch the You Tube video of homosexual Perez Hilton trashing Miss Calif. He called her vile names and may have caused her to lose the Miss USA title. Now that’s an example of direct harm inflicted on one because of her beliefs. It is not often opinionated heterosexuals doing the hating, harassing, thought control intimidation, and speech chilling these days, but militant homosexual activists.
Lovers of free speech and free exercise of religion should awaken to the relentless effort of radical homosexual activists to validate their lifestyle by criminalizing and silencing those who disagree with them.
Far too many people , including certain well meaning Christians laboring under the belief that Christians must avoide politics, are failing to stand up to this intimidation. This failure could eventually lead to the unintended consequence of their loss of the very freedom to evangelize.
When will the Chruch make a stand and say enough is enough?
