In order that you can see how insidious these supposed "thought crimes" have become, I will post some background. I was born into a family who follows a certain religion. I was baptized at age eight, graduated from primary, mutual and Seminary. Married under the approved religious guidelines for time and all eternity. I thought I would live happily ever-after with my mate and have the opportunity to become the mate of a god.
To most of you this will sound incredulous, but it is in fact the truth. Because of life experience, reading, education, questions and soul-searching I came to understand the false claims of my religion, and so I began the long process of leaving.
After 20 years of wandering in disbelief, I came to a belief in a more expanded version on an omnipotent and omnipresent God. I became Christian, just five years ago. I am filled with zeal to tell my story of discovery and warn others of the traps I fell into when I belonged to a group that fostered the belief in the pre-existence of mankind with the eternal Father, a teaching that leads to the beliefs of being a brother to Jesus Christ, Satan, and each and every soul upon earth through birth to God the Father in a heavenly realm....and that through obedience to ordinances and covenants while we exist on earth, we have the capability to progress into godhood.
For telling this on FreeRepublic, I am accused of hatred, blackness of spirit, past hurts that I am unable to overcome. In fact I have been reported to the Moderators and Jim Robinson personally for having the gall to actually speak about my own experiences. Thanks to Jim and the Moderators I have been allowed to remain an active participant in the give and take of ideas here. THANK YOU!
Please folks, wake up. We are facing an assault on our first amendment rights of freedom of expression.
"Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The first amendment guarantees you the freedom to establish a religion and exercize it, AND it gives me the freedom to express my ideas concerning your belief whether it is verbal or by written expression. If you exclude my right to disagree with your religious belief, your right to practice your religion will be next.
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I've been thhinking about forming a religion that worships shrubbery. Because of your post I think I will!
Our shrubbery, which art in heaven.....
Excellent.
Congrats.
It is a very serious, huge issue and plan of globalists
toward
1. doing away with Christianity and
2. creating a one world religion to worship satan . . .
all as The Bible predicts.
We must do what we can to prevent such as long as possible.
This sort of law tries to criminalize thoughts (intentions, bias, hate). Laws can validly criminalize actions, not thoughts. This sort of law is invalid. Obviously our legislators know that it is invalid, but plan to enforce it anyway.
There is a lot to be gained politically from this sort of law. Anything that a White Christian male says or does, or doesn’t say or do, is the subject of this law. White Christian males have no political power because legislators don’t care about White Christian males.
“Hate crime” laws make no sense and they can pose a real danger.
From the description of your former religion, I'll bet it was by Romney fans.