Supporters of S. 909 claim the legislation only covers bodily injury. In actuality, it opens the door to the possibility that religious leaders or members of religious groups could be prosecuted criminally, based on their speech or protected activities under conspiracy law or the criminal code--and could include conduct or speech that aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces, procures or causes the act to be done by another. Ultimately, a pastor's sermon concerning religious beliefs and teachings on homosexuality and gender confused behaviors could be considered to cause violence and will be punished or at least investigated.
During the House Judiciary Committee markup in 07, Rep. Arthur Davis admitted that the legislation will not protect a pastor (as well as Bible teachers, Sunday School teachers etc.,) from prosecution.
Former judge, Rep. Louie Gohmert stated that federal law currently stipulates that anyone who "incites" or "induces" a person to commit a violent crime against a protected class, can be prosecuted for aiding or abetting in the crime. This could include a pastor who preaches against the gay lifestyle.
The so-called hate crimes bill will be used to lay the legal foundation and framework to investigate, prosecute and persecute pastors, business owners, Bible teachers, Sunday School teachers, youth leaders, Christian counselors, religious broadcasters and anyone else whose actions are based upon and reflect the truths found in the Bible, which have previously been protected by the First Amendment, resulting in a chilling affect on religious liberties.
More than 30 sexual orientations effectively gain federal protection. These, because of Congress's failure to define "sexual orientation," will arguably be protected under this legislation. Among those sexual orientations are:
- Fronteurism
- Incest
- Necrophilia
- Pedophilia
- Prostitution
- Zoophilia (Beastiality)
- Voyeurism
Non-criminal sexual orientations include such behaviors as:
- Autogeynephilia
- Apotemnophilia
- Coprophilia
- Uraphilia
- Transvestic Fetishism
This legislation provides hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund so-called anti-hate programs. This includes a series of $100,000 grants to organizations allegedly fighting "hate" in their communities.
If signed into law, this so-callled hate crimes bill will be used to fund pro-LGBT teaching materials for our nation's public schools. It will be a replay of what occurred during the Clinton Administration.
During the Clinton years, TVC exposed the federal government's use of tax dollars to fund an "anti-hate" (actually anti-Christian) school curriculum. "Healing the Hate: A National Bias Crime Prevention Curriculum for Middle Schools," actually did the following"
- Compared Baptists and Pentecostals to White Supremacist groups.
- Defined "prejudice" to include the "bigoted thoughts" of religious organizations. If a church teaches homosexual sex is wrong, you see, the curriculum calls it bigotry!
- Defined a "hate incident" as "harmful words or actions motivated by prejudice," which specifically includes "religious beliefs." In other words, if you have moral principles based on your religious faith, the curriculum says you're prejudiced!
- Defined institutionalized prejudice as widely accepted in religious groups.
Under the guise of hate crime prevention, $100,000 a pop will be given to LGBT groups to create more anti-Christian pro-gay agenda materials for public schools and communities, teaching children to accept homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism, etc as normal behaviors.
Another flaw in the bill is that affected parties are not defined. Will traditional values once again be denigrated with taxpayer dollars?
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender activists (LGBT) have worked aggressively to promote the idea that Bible Speech (opposition to the gay agenda) will lead inevitably to violent "hate" crimes. Thus, they say restrictions of such speech is justified as a way of protecting homosexuals from violence. What they're really targeting is speech against LGBT behaviors that is based upon an understanding of what the Bible says about this behavior. in short, they're targeting Bible Speech-not actual "hate speech."
I bring all this to your attention so that you see what we are up against. We must act accordingly to prevent this bill from passing. Call who you must and who you may and tell them to vote Negative. Prepare your people for whats to come. This same thing has been passed in Canada and is already affecting television ministries there. Look it up for yourself and see whats happening. (Traditional Values Coalition)
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