How Soon Before We Are All Arrested?

[Dan]

Controversial Homosexual "Hate Crimes" Act Set for Senate Vote Thursday



By Kathleen Gilbert

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Senate Democrats announced on Monday that the Senate would consider a homosexual "hate crimes" proposal as an attached amendment to the annual defense authorization bill, and will likely vote on the bill tomorrow.

In addition to adding "sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability" to the list of federally-protected classes, S.909, also known as the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also expands the reach of hate crimes law by eliminating the restriction that such crimes disrupt federally protected activities.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Monday he would introduce S.909 as a bipartisan amendment to the defense authorization measure, thereby easing passage of the hotly debated bill.

Last year the Senate approved hate crimes legislation also as part of the military bill, but it was never reconciled with a similar House-passed bill, and met with opposition from the Bush White House. However, Obama expressed support for the legislation in April, urging the House to quickly pass its version.

Critics have warned that the bill is bound to chill religious free speech against homosexuality, saying that similar laws in other countries have facilitated the prosecution of Christians who criticize homosexuality, particularly in Canada and the U.K.

In addition the House version of the bill, titled the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Act, was met with alarm by conservative lawmakers after the House Judiciary Committee refused an amendment proposed by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) to specifically exclude pedophiles from the protection.

As the committee had also refused to define or restrict the definition of the term "sexual orientation," one Democrat representative lauded the bill as granting heightened federal protection for all of the 547 "paraphilias" or sexual aberrations documented by the American Psychological Association.

In the House debate, Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) urged passage of the bill with the understanding it would grant all known sexual fetishes heightened federal protection.

"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 - (Hastings here lifted a several-page document) - all of these '-philias' and fetishes and '-isms' that were put forward, need not live in fear because of who they are."

The Senate received hundreds of thousands of letters from citizens protesting the bill in a campaign sponsored by WorldNetDaily last month.

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[Didacus]

[quote]As the committee had also refused to define or restrict the definition of the term "sexual orientation," one Democrat representative lauded the bill as granting heightened federal protection for all of the 547 "paraphilias" or sexual aberrations documented by the American Psychological Association.[/quote]

547!!! Are you kidding me? How many of those will one day seek marriage rights?

And I don't think they can arrest us all - the prisons would be overloaded.

[homeschoolmom]

Come back, Jesus!

[Deus te Amat]

What happened to freedom of speech? I understand not being able to say "nice black man" on the basis that ethnicity is something naturally inherent... But now we can't speak out against homosexually, which the Bible calls an "abomination"? Doesn't this mean that all Bibles will have to be outlawed for hate crimes?

[Dan]

Bibles, yes of course.

Other "texts" never.

[homeschoolmom]

Oh great, so pedophiles are going to be a protected class....

[Varg]

[quote name='Deus_te_Amat' post='1921725' date='Jul 16 2009, 02:38 PM']What happened to freedom of speech? I understand not being able to say "nice black man" on the basis that ethnicity is something naturally inherent... But now we can't speak out against homosexually, which the Bible calls an "abomination"? Doesn't this mean that all Bibles will have to be outlawed for hate crimes?

[/quote]Nope, just edited to make it better. Oh and while they're editing it they should probably take out the million and one contradictions in there too

[zunshynn]

[quote name='Dan' post='1921691' date='Jul 16 2009, 11:34 AM']In addition to adding "sexual orientation, gender identity, or [u]disability[/u]" to the list of federally-protected classes, S.909, also known as the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also expands the reach of hate crimes law by eliminating the restriction that such crimes disrupt federally protected activities.[/quote]

kinda funny, considering the ones that want this thing to go through are the ones that want to kill the disabled.

[Varg]

[quote name='zunshynn' post='1921739' date='Jul 16 2009, 01:54 PM']kinda funny, considering the ones that want this thing to go through are the ones that want to kill the disabled. [/quote]Who wants to kill the disabled? O__o

[KnightofChrist]

[quote name='Varg' post='1921740' date='Jul 16 2009, 01:55 PM']Who wants to kill the disabled? O__o[/quote]

Or the unborn

[Deus te Amat]

[quote name='Varg' post='1921740' date='Jul 16 2009, 02:55 PM']Who wants to kill the disabled? O__o[/quote]

The healthcare plan the democrats are pushing won't cover the elderly or disabled.

[Varg]

[quote name='Deus_te_Amat' post='1921746' date='Jul 16 2009, 02:06 PM']The healthcare plan the democrats are pushing won't cover the elderly or disabled.[/quote]Doesn't mean that they go around with a gun killing disabled people

[Christie_M]

[quote name='Varg' post='1921759' date='Jul 16 2009, 01:30 PM']Doesn't mean that they go around with a gun killing disabled people [/quote]
that's right. cause there will be no guns to use.

[Deus te Amat]

[quote name='Varg' post='1921759' date='Jul 16 2009, 03:30 PM']Doesn't mean that they go around with a gun killing disabled people [/quote]


No, it just means that the elderly and disabled will die because they won't be able to afford to care for themselves or get the help they need.


There is more than one kind of murder.

[Varg]

[quote name='Deus_te_Amat' post='1921761' date='Jul 16 2009, 03:35 PM']No, it just means that the elderly and disabled will die because they won't be able to afford to care for themselves or get the help they need.


There is more than one kind of murder. [/quote]Everybody dies. And the definition of muder is "the unlawful killing of another human being with intent (or malice aforethought)". I'm pretty sure that governments aren't deliberately killing their own citizens. If they were then who would be left to pay for the nukes?