Posted on 07/26/2008 7:44:28 AM PDT by Pinkbell
I would hope that such laws would be ruled unconstitutional simply because they violate the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal abuse (for lack of a better word) under the law.
I.e., as long as only straight whitey Christians (males) are persecuted under the law even when other people in other groups could also be persecuted, the law is unconstitutional.
My son is marrying a great gal from Pennsylvania in two weeks. We were very pleased to discover her family is conservative. Their favorite hobby is trap shooting. The more I learn about the state, the more I like it. I think we might just win Pennsylvania in November.
Sounds like they won on a technicality (how the bill was modified) rather than the principle (Christian’s right to speak against the sin of homosexuality).
“The law was used to persecute anybody who stood in the way of the homosexual agenda,..”
Like the Boy Scouts?
Hate crimes certainly seem to violate that to me.
If I get 20 years for a crime and someone else gets 10, that isn't equal treatment.
But it's early Saturday so may not be up to snuff yet ;)
I'm taking LifeSiteNews to task for not presenting the other side. My email to them:
Hi,I'll post any response here.Where is the other side's views on this article:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08072502.html
I'm very pleased with the court's decision. You have two quotes from people who agree with the decision. Where are the quotes from the other side? What happened to balanced news?
upchuck
South Carolina
The power of the homosexual lobby across the nation is truly frightening. Speak against this aberrant behavior and you are a criminal!!! The unconstitutional nature of such a ridiculous claim should be obvious—a slam dunk. But all it takes will be a few leftist, activist judges and bang, there goes our 1st amendment right. We had all better take full advantage of Heller while we are able. Be prepared, just like the evil, soon to be jailed Boy Scouts.
Like Phillie is doing to the Cradle of Liberty Scout Council?
Applauding the courts for actually using common sense, logic and following the Constitution of Penna. It is about damn time!!!!!
Unless you are queer or a union thug, Philly is the Coffin of Liberty
Which brings up an interesting question. Philadelphia is evicting the Boy Scouts from their headquarters because they say that the law forbids the city from supporting any organization which discriminates, legally or otherwise. If homosexuals can't be included in the hate crime laws then can they be excluded from the discrimination laws as well?
Could open a new legal point to use in the battle with the “City of ‘Brotherly Love’.”
PA is such a Democrat/Liberal/Socialist/Progressive/Marxist/Leninist state that anything Conservative is a very uphill battle.
Good report.
Two points should be made:
1) The legislators who passed the law and the governor who signed it should be jailed/fined for conspiracy to deny people their constitutional rights.
2) ON TO COLORADO!!!!!
Not necessarily.
Think about it. It was "tacked on" to an agricultural bill.Why?
This "game" was discivered long ago by manipulators and crooks, always to dishonest and destructive ends. It should have been slapped down the first time it was tried, but either it was not discovered or not challenged. First a trickle, then a torrent of such new "laws" have been with us ever since.
The point is that such subterfuge (tacking on horrible laws onto other totally unrelated laws) is usually done because the proposed law had little or no chance of passing otherwise. If the main law is important enough, needed enough or emergency legislation, "we'll deal with the other later" is assumed to never happen.
Voters and rational citizens (myself among them) reasonble conclude that if the law was "snuck in" the first time, the odds are that the proponents knew that the majority would oppose it. Rest assured that any revival of it in the full light of day will get the attention that it deserves, and fail.
This "some are more equal than others" legislation, must cease. Most state constitutions forbid it as a basic principle.
We are either equal or we're not. And dead is dead, regardless of other victim pathologies involved.
Never underestimate the Philadelphia machine. If we could just trick New Jersey into annexing Philadelphia.
Might this decision have any ramifications re: the guy who is suing Zondervan because he says the Bible injures him with its anti-homo instruction? Just a thought.
I think you have it exactly backwards. It is unconstitutional at the other end. It creates a class of "aristocratic" victims, whose health and life is worth more than a normal citizen. That is, on principle, expressly forbidden by the national Constitution, and virtually all states'.
I hear you. I was just encouraged by my future daughter in law, the recent court ruling described in the article and the Democrat Primary. Maybe I am just getting irrationally exuberant, hoping that those Jesus Freaks, clinging to their guns, will vote for Mccain over Obama, no matter what their party affiliation.
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