U.S. House to Vote on Special “Hate Crime” Protection for Sexual Orientation

Rufus_1611 · Feb 22, 2007

U.S. House to Vote on Special “Hate Crime” Protection for Sexual Orientation

By Gudrun Schultz

An upcoming bill before the U.S. House of Representatives would make sexual orientation a special right that would receive particular federal protection along with rights of race, religion and gender.

Introduced on Jan. 5, 2007, by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, HR 254 would establish a new federal offence for hate crimes, mandating a separate federal criminal prosecution for state offenses with the possibility of life imprisonment for crimes motivated by “the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability of any person.”

Among concerns raised about the bill is the likelihood that such legislation would lead to increasing restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of religion in America, with public opposition to homosexuality prohibited.

The American Family Association warned that, if passed, the legislation would open the door to a ban on church preaching against homosexuality and the loss of tax-exempt status for churches who opposed the homosexual lifestyle.

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Bro. Curtis · Feb 22, 2007

This law will put people involved in bar fights in jail longer than murderers.

2 Timothy2:1-4 · Feb 22, 2007

Again, everyone is willing to give up freedom if it is for the right cause. In this case fredom of speech will be the loss.

But if its feedom to expose national security issues Hey! lets go for it.

carpro · Feb 22, 2007

Legislators have plenty to do without wasting time on redundant legislation like this.

Rufus_1611 · Feb 26, 2007

Do we have a right to hate? By Selwyn Duke

The Shill Media won't discuss it, but the aforementioned laws are metastasizing in the supposedly free countries of the West. I've often written about the case of Mark Harding, a Canadian pastor punished for criticizing Islam. But such examples abound; Bob Unruh writes at WorldNetDaily.com,

Two Christians in Australia have been indicted for criticizing Islam, and another for criticizing Zionism. A filmmaker has been threatened with arrest for using the word ‘homosexual' rather than ‘gay.' Now a German priest faces jail time for publicly criticizing abortionists, and in Holland, ‘fornicators' and ‘adulterers' are protected classes and cannot be criticized.

And just in case you think it can't happen here in the US, I'll point out that on October 10, 2004, eleven Christians were arrested in Philadelphia, Pa., for criticizing homosexuality. They were arrested under a Pennsylvania hate crime law, which, ominously, is almost identical to one (H.R. 254) going through Congress at this very moment.
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This is par for the course. When did you last see someone punished for criticizing Christianity, whites or those with normal sexual desires? Why do you think so-called hate crimes perpetrated by a member of these groups becomes front page news while one perpetrated against them is swept under the rug? Hate laws are used as a hammer to silence politically incorrect dissent and persecute those not enjoying victim-group status. Hate laws have nothing to do with opposition to hate and everything to do with hating opposition.
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av1611jim · Feb 26, 2007

They are all for tolerance as long as it is WE who must tolerate THEIR evil yet THEY have no tolerance for opposing views.

WOE unto you scribes and Pharisees....HYPOCRITES!

The lawyers and politicians of today are the scribes and pharisees of yesteryear for they indeed are religiously motivated. We call it the religion of Secular Humanism. Their doctrine is evolution and their church podium is the liberal press. Their deacons are the activist judges and their 'bible' is the communist manifesto.

Get used to it and try to win as many as you can to our LORD JESUS CHRIST while we still have breath. Forget 'freedom'. Tell me exactly what 'freedoms' did the early church enjoy? For that matter, tell me; besides America and Europe in the last 200 years; what church body has EVER enjoyed such 'freedoms' as we do?

(shaking head in wonder why folks get all in a tizzy over the things our enemies are doing.)

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