Posted on 04/26/2007 1:34:30 AM PDT by Man50D
Edited on 04/26/2007 2:08:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A fast-tracked congressional plan to add special protections for homosexuals to federal law would turn "thoughts, feelings, and beliefs" into criminal offenses and put Christians in the bull's-eye, according to opponents.
"H.R. 1592 is a discriminatory measure that criminalizes thoughts, feelings, and beliefs [and] has the potential of interfering with religious liberty and freedom of speech," according to a white paper submitted by Glen Lavy, of the Alliance Defense Fund.
As James Jacobs and Kimberly Potter observed in Hate Crimes, Criminal Law, and Identity Politics, 'It would appear that the only additional purpose [for enhancing punishment of bias crimes] is to provide extra punishment based on the offender's politically incorrect opinions and viewpoints,'" said Lavy.
The proposal has been endorsed by majority Democrats on the committee, and already has 137 sponsors in the full House, making it possible it could be voted on in a matter of days or weeks.
"This is a terrible thing, to criminalize thought or emotion or even speech," Lavy told WND, referring to H.R. 1592, now pending at the committee level in the U.S. House. Democrats there have been turning back amendments that would strip it of its worst provisions, according to an observer.
Bishop Harry Jackson, chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, said the plan, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Protection Act of 2007, is no more than "a surreptitious attempt by some in Congress to strip the nation of religious freedom and the ability to preach the gospel from our church pulpits."
"It will stamp all over our doctrine and practice of our faith," he said. "We believe what the Bible says. If you start there we've got a major problem."
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This kind of bill must be stopped!
I agree, but they sure take a lot of crap before they finally have had enough and standup on their hind legs!
Amen Elsie-girl! We win.
Ain't that the truth. :-) They have the patient of Job.
JMHO
I have ZERO doubt that you're correct. This country is firmly in the iron grip of political correctness, and as we've seen countless times, incrementalism is at the core of liberal strategy. Think back 50 years and try to imagine that we would statutorily establish that hurting another out of "bias" is deserving of worse punishment than hurting another out of greed, spite, anger, or plain old evil, that killing a criminal if he happens to be in some minority group would be considered worse than killing an innocent child because you're a pedophile and a murderer. Think back 100 years and try to imagine judges sitting beneath the words IN GOD WE TRUST and declaring prayer in various and sundry venues to be illegal. Common sense has long since left the building and, barring a cataclysmic loss of American life, she ain't coming back. The insanity will march forward one baby step at a time; we're frogs in a boiling pot.
MM
Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
KJV 2 Chronicles 7:13-15
13. If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
14. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
15. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
I was just reading through some of your comments - I find they are very powerful when you use scripture as you do. It says it all.
Just yesterday, on a television program, one of the "learned" commentators at a theological institution informed us that God didn't punish Sodom and Gomorrah because of homosexuality at all. It wasn't sin that God was angry with but rather that they "did not help the poor and needy".
So, not only is history rewritten in school but in the Bible too. Perhaps he should have read your comment.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
Key verse, of course. BUT, do you see any evidence that we as Americans collectively have any intention of humbling ourselves, praying, seeking His face, and turning from our wicked ways?
MM
Yup, I believe we'll miss the worst of it, but it could get mighty ugly before we leave.
MM
Does this mean that Muslims will go to jail? The Muslim taxi drivers in Detroit come to mind.
LOL. I read “left wing running BATH houses of Congress.” I was probably not so far off. Hmmmm....
YUP, I sure agree, sadly.
Sadly, no.
You’d think that 911 would have had some effect towards this though.
Maybe next time.
It did. For about a week. :-(
MM
Interesting point.
Interesting point.
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