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ALERT!
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WILL HOLD "HATE
CRIMES" HEARING ON PRO-HOMOSEXUAL BILL, THURSDAY, 25 JUNE,
AT 10-11AM EST, SD-226
In a surprise turnaround, and
due to pressure from pro-faith conservatives, the Democrats
appear to be abandoning their plans to hide the "Matthew
Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act," (which is better known
to conservatives as the "Pedophile Protection Act,")
in an amendment to another bill, and will instead hold hearings
this Thursday to consider S. 909 as a stand-alone bill, giving
us a few more days to act.
The pro-homosexual,
anti-faith bill, sponsored by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
and pushed hard by the Obama Administration, was until recently
labeled S. 909 "Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes
Prevention Act." But it faced such strong resistance by
conservatives (including threat of filibuster or
faith-protecting amendments by pro-faith Senator Jim DeMint,
R-SC), so instead Democrats
had announced they would try to hide the bill as an amendment to
another "must-move" bill, denying
committee hearings, and completely side-stepping the Republicans
right to debate and amend. But now thanks to your
participation in fax campaigns like this one, we have earned the
right to debate!
President Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to
testify Thursday, and will reportedly link passage of this
pro-homosexual bill to protecting the rights of Hispanic illegal
aliens, which would be deceptive, since "national
origin" is already protected in the 1994 hate-crimes law,
and 75% of Hispanics oppose gay marriage.
547 SEXUAL DEVIANCES TO BE
PROTECTED BY FEDERAL MARSHALS
The forthcoming S.909 will
mirror a House bill H.R. 1913, already passed 249-175 along
strict party lines, which makes "sexual orientation,"
"gender," and "gender identity" into
federally-protected classes under the law, and codifies federal
protection of up to 547 types of sexually deviant behaviors,
including:
* Incest
- sex with one's offspring (a crime, of course)
* Necrophilia
- sexual relations with a corpse, also a crime
* Pedophilia
- sex with an underage child, another crime
* Zoophilia
- bestiality, a crime in numerous states
* Voyeurism
- a criminal offense in most states
* Fronteurism
- a man rubbing against an unknown woman's buttocks
* Coprophilia
- sexual arousal from feces
* Urophilia
- sexual arousal from urine
Attempts by House Republicans
to add amendments stating "pedophilia is not protected as a
sexual orientation" were specifically blocked and defeated
by House Democrats. Lesbian
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) expressed opposition to
excluding pedophiles from the bill, and Democrats voted with her
to strike any child-protection amendment. She claimed
that pedophiles would not be defined within "sexual
orientation," but wouldn't put that in writing, and refused
to define that phrase "sexual orientation," which
according to Congressman Steve King (R-IA) will include all 547
sexual deviances listed in the American Psychiatric
Association's DSM-III manual of clinical psychoses, including
pedophilia, so now thanks to most Democrats, child molesters
will be protected by federal law. In response
on the House floor, Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) not only
admitted it would, but defended
that all 547 psychoses SHOULD be defended by this new law,
saying, "This bill addresses our resolve to end violence
based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans
regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual
orientation, gender identity, or disability or all
of these 'Philias' and fetishes and 'isms' that were put forward
need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my
colleagues to vote in favor of this rule."
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QUOTING THE BIBLE IN CHURCH
WILL BE PUNISHED
Not only will sexually deviant behaviors gain legal
protection, this legislation also lays the legal foundation to investigate,
prosecute and persecute pastors, youth pastors, Bible teachers,
and anyone else whose speech and thought is based upon and
reflects the truths found in the Bible. How will this
legislation over-rule the First Amendment?
PASTORS NOT PROTECTED
BY FIRST AMENDMENT
S. 909 broadly defines "intimidation," thus a pastor's
sermon could be considered "hate speech" if heard by
an individual who then acts aggressively against persons based
on any "sexual orientation." The pastor could be
prosecuted for "conspiracy to commit a hate crime" or
for "inciting violence against gays" simply by quoting
the Bible in church. And the
First Amendment won't automatically protect pastors,
since speech accused of
"inciting violence" is not protected, and is
punishable, under precedent of Supreme Court rulings.
In 1993 Wisconsin v. Mitchell,
the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a "hate speech" law
providing enhanced punishments
for violent crimes based on racial motives as revealed by speech
of the accused, (which would now apply broadly to punish any
"anti-gay motives" in the speech of accused pastor
"co-conspirators.") But
pastor, if a crazy person in your audience commits a crime
against a heterosexual, don't worry, you'll get a comparative
discount in your prison time.
IS PRAYER IN JESUS'
NAME A "HATE CRIME?"
Any public prayer against the sin of homosexuality could be
construed as "inciting violence" by easily offended
listeners, especially if those prayers are offered "in
Jesus name." When I served our country as a former
Navy Chaplain, for example, I was told in writing by Chief
of Chaplains Rear-Admiral Louis Iasiello, that "any
chaplain's continued insistence on ending public prayers 'in
Jesus' name'...could reasonably tend to denigrate those with
different forms of faith." His
policy prohibiting prayers "in Jesus name" was
enforced against me at court-martial, before it was later
rescinded by Congress in 2006. But this year I've
already been falsely accused of "inciting violence"
because I quoted verbatim from Psalm 109 in my public prayers,
(for which secular activist Mikey Weinstein literally
requested an FBI investigation against me!) Just
imagine more anti-Christian aggression by law enforcement
officials AFTER this hate-crimes bill becomes law.
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IS PREACHING AGAINST
SIN A HATE CRIME?
As a former Navy
Chaplain who was punished (in writing, three times) for quoting
the Bible in chapel during optionally-attended worship, I know
exactly how they'll come after us. The enemies of religious
liberty will simply declare
certain gospel phrases "hateful" and
"offensive" like my commanding officer who punished me
for quoting John 3:36 in chapel, and was supported by government
lawyers for "protecting" easily offended listeners
from the "offensive" gospel of salvation through Jesus
Christ.
Congressman Louie
Gohmert (R-TX) agrees with me, saying pastors, rabbis, or imams
could be charged with encouraging or inducing a "hate
crime" if they preach against homosexuality. "Every
preacher of the gospel, unless you cut out parts of it; every
imam who mentions anything with regard to sexual immorality - they
could be pursued, and in other countries they have been,"
says Gohmert. (Congressmen Gohmert is my personal
advocate, with whom I preached last year at a pro-faith rally in
Texas...and we both agree the
gospel of freedom from sin really is "love speech" not
"hate speech.")
FREE SPEECH SUPPRESSED IN NORWAY
Hate crimes laws protecting homosexuals from criticism are
already silencing pastors in Norway, where these dangerous laws specifically
empower law enforcement officials to prosecute
"intimidation" of homosexuals. For
example, Congressman Gohmert warned "I was talking to a guy
from Norway who was telling me that people are even afraid to
say Mary was a virgin, because just bringing up sexuality at all
can raise problems with law enforcement."
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FREE SPEECH
CRIMINALIZED IN SWEDEN
In Sweden, Pastor Ake Green
received a one-month jail sentence last year under a Swedish
"hate crimes" law that forbids criticism of those who
participate in homosexual behavior. The Goeta
Appeals Court later overturned the decision. The
government demanded the pastor be punished by appealing the case
to the Swedish Supreme Court, which ruled the law
unconstitutional. Yet here in America, the
Reid-Kennedy-Obama trio is pushing to pass and enforce this
same type of "anti-free speech" law, despite their
acknowledgment that any such enforcement would be
unconstitutional in America too. (They why pass the bill in the
first place?)
FREE SPEECH CRIMINALIZED IN CANADA
In Canada, where
"hate crimes" laws already passed, the Alberta Human
Rights Tribunal actively forbid evangelical pastor Stephen
Boisson from expressing his moral opposition to homosexuality.
The tribunal also ordered
Boisson to pay $5,000 "damages for pain and suffering"
and apologize to the "human rights" activist who filed
the complaint. His crime? In 2002, the pastor wrote a
letter to the editor of his local newspaper in which he
denounced the homosexual agenda as "wicked" and stated
that: "Children as young as five and six years of age are
being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging
pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school
system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights."
The Canadian government
tribunal ordered the Christian pastor to "cease publishing
in newspapers, by email, on the radio, in public speeches, or on
the internet, in future, disparaging remarks about gays and
homosexuals." (This "re-education
commission" reminds me of Big Brother from Orwell's 1984.)
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FREE SPEECH
CRIMINALIZED IN PENNSYLVANIA
Can't happen in America? It already has. In 2004 my
friend Michael Marcavage was arrested along with ten other
Christians (including two elderly grandmothers), and charged
with violating Pennsylvania's "hate crimes" laws,
because they carried signs conveying God's love at a Gay Pride
rally. One member of "The
Philadelphia Eleven," Arlene Elshinnawy, 75 year-old
grandmother of three, was holding a sign: "Truth is hate to
those who hate the truth," before she was hauled off to
jail by police officers. They were literally
threatened with 50 years in jail for preaching the Gospel of
Jesus Christ on a public sidewalk, because it offended gays.
That hate crimes law was so outrageous it was later found
unconstitutional by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, but now Ted
Kennedy and Barack Obama want to pass essentially that same
discredited law nationwide.
WE CAN STILL DE-RAIL
THIS TRAIN
But together, we can
still stop them. We've
identified 16 Democrats below, who are NOT YET committed as
co-sponsors of S. 909, so please call them today, asking
to OPPOSE AND FILIBUSTER any amendment to any bill that
resembles S. 909. Sadly two Republicans (Olympia Snowe and
Susan Collins, R-ME) have joined 43 Democrats by co-sponsoring
this pro-homosexual bill, so call them too, and ask them to
switch.
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Blanche Lincoln D- AR |
202-224-4843 |
| x |
Byron L. Dorgan D- ND |
202-224-2551 |
| x |
Herb Kohl D-WI |
202-224-5653 |
| x |
James Webb D- VA |
202-224-4024 |
| x |
Jon Tester D- MT |
202-224-2644 |
| x |
Kay Hagan D- NC |
202-224-6342 |
| x |
Kent Conrad D- ND |
202-224-2043 |
| x |
Mark Pryor D- AR |
202-224-2353 |
| x |
Mark Warner D- VA |
202-224-2023 |
| x |
Max Baucus D- MT |
202-224-2651 |
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x = undecided
Democrat. |
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Michael Bennet D- CO |
202-224-5852 |
| x |
Robert C. Byrd D- WV |
202-224-3954 |
| x |
Russ Feingold D-WI |
202-224-5323 |
| x |
Ted Kaufman D-DE |
202-224-5042 |
| x |
Thomas Carper D- DE |
202-224-2441
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| x |
Tom Udall D- NM |
202-224-6621 |
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| y |
Olympia Snowe R-ME |
202-224-5344 |
| y |
Susan Collins R-ME |
202-224-2523 |
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y = co-sponsoring Republican. |
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