Posted on 07/02/2004 3:15:09 PM PDT by swilhelm73
THE LIGHTS ARE GOING OUT [John Derbyshire] A Pentecostalist pastor in Sweden has been sentenced to one month in jail for criticizing homosexuality in a sermon. Story here.
Sweden today, the USA tomorrow. I see from the current HUMAN EVENTS that a "hate crime" amendment was slipped into the Defense Authorization Bill (S. 2400) to add homosexuals to the list of protected classes of citizens under U.S. civil rights law. This follows relentless lobbying from groups with innocuous, deliberately deceptive names like "Human Rights Campaign." Naturally the amendment passed the Senate by a landslide: "Eighteen Republicans and all Democrats present voted in favor."
Crimes are crimes--these “hate crimes” laws are aimed at censoring speech, protecting people from feeling offended--something quite subjective. We are losing our ancient liberties, ladies and gentleman, and the political classes, regardless of party, are perfectly OK with it. Posted at 12:25 PM
Well. Two posts! Perhaps you,like, Derbyshire, find all gays "priggish" and "annoying"?
Paranoia? Can you say "projection?"
I see the force everyday, such as the subject of this article, and I understand it perfectly. It's called by some-"Evil".
FMCDH(BITS)
Your post two was meant to be sarcasm, wasn't it?
Oh. You are serious.
You are quite mad.
"Swedenistic." I like that word. Can I use it?
"When the lights go out," by Oingo Boingo.
When the lights go out
Everybody has fun
When the lights go out
Everybody runs to a safe place
When the lights go out
Everybody's afraid
When the lights go out
Everybody starts to pray
Starts to pray
Monsters & Madmen
All come alive
When the dead start walking
There's no place to hide
There's no place to hide
CHORUS
Hey--Let's turn the night into day
Let's start a fire in an alley way
Let's all go crazy by & by
And let's all pray to the cat's eye
No one can be trusted, when the lights go out
People act real crazy, people start to shout
People huddle together, try and hide their fear
People party down by they ain't goin' nowhere
They ain't goin' nowhere
Gonna run outside
What's there to see
Just one big shadow there to comfort me
There to comfort me . . . there to comfort me
CHORUS
Just common folks like you and me
Turn into mobs that get so crazy
Prowl the streets like cats
Out for the hunt
Breaking all the windows just because it's fun
Just because it's fun, just because it's fun
And I wash my hands of your demolition. :)
Yeah we'd have the line item veto...and we'd all have to wear tin foil hats to keep out the CIA/Alien mind control rays out. :)
That guy is nuttier then Al Gore.
Yes, you may use it. Just send residuals...!
"Paranoia? Can you say "projection?"
Do you find anyone who expresses a negative opinion about homos to be 'homophobes'? Talk about projection! How gay...
My guess is that most folks will drink the Kool Aid upon arrival and 90% of the rest will turn in their guns pronto.
The pastor apparently said that according to the Bible homosexuality is wrong. I fail to see why that is an offense that deserves a jail term.
There has been some effort to reinterpret the Bible, but according to reasonable, traditional readings of it there are several passages which declare that homosexuality is wrong, sinful, and unnatural. You can disagree with that, but a Christian minister has a perfect right to say it.
And this discredits the ARTICLE or what SWEDEN DID exactly how?
Swedish pastor sentenced to one month's jail for offending homosexuals
Stockholm (ENI). A Swedish court has sentenced a pastor belonging to the Pentecostal movement in Sweden, Ake Green, to a month in prison, under a law against incitement, after he was found guilty of having offended homosexuals in a sermon. Soren Andersson, the president of the Swedish federation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights (RFSL), said on hearing the sentence that religious freedom could never be used as a reason to offend people. "Therefore," he told journalists, "I cannot regard the sentence as an act of interference with freedom of religion." During a sermon in 2003, Green described homosexuality as "abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumour in the body of society".
It is later than you think. ! ! !
If it ever gets to the point where I can't open my mouth and criticize anyone I damned well please, I'll take to the underground and become a terrorist.
It's not "homosexual bashing." There's a serious problem in society when someone is put in jail for their Christian beliefs. The Bible is pretty unequivocal in its condemnation of homosexual activity, and Christian ministers and priests have every right to convey that religious teaching to their flocks. We're next in line for it here in the US, if some have their way.
Just to be clear where I stand:
Homosexual "marriage" is not good for children compared to one mother and one father.
Saudi Arabia is the source of Al Quaida's funding, ideology, training, personnel, and leadership.
The French Suck.
Canadians are evil mean people who curtail free speech rights.
My college hires whack-jobs who self-desecrate in order to create hate crimes.
If Black Americans would quit desecrating their most recently chosen name with their behavior, we wouldn't have to call them African Americans (or anything else) next.
Did I forget anyone?
The Swedes aren't too big on the whole "liberty" thing.
Ever talk to a Swede? They sure think they are...which is more the pity.
Orwell was all too right...to more and more Euro slavery is freedom.
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