Does the Hate Crimes Bill Threaten Religious Liberties?
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hate crime
Hate is Hate.....Perverts hate Christianty/Christians....Hate is hate..I believe in what God says love the sinner hate the sin.Perverion is a sin...but then we all have sinned...
REPENT
So many people want to forget that walking in man's ways is not wise. Now we're talking about making laws against walking in the ways of God. I think people need to stop and actually read the Bible cover-to-cover and study it out before they start accusing people of being "Bible-thumpers." Reading the Bible is the key, rather than thumping it. The main message of the Bible is to repent. I know the REPENT word is unpardonably unpolitically correct, but nevertheless, repentance is required. You can't just do evil and call it good. That leads to a godless society and unspeakable atrocities such as are committed under totalitarian regimes.
Why is the word REPENT so unpopular? Most people prefer to think they are right about whatever pleases them and they do not want to acknowledge there is any need to repent. Culture is the new way of celebrating this. Now we are to have laws that tell us to follow a secular or cultural mindset rather than looking to what is good and true. That's just one step away from a government doing your thinking for you. As for me and my house, we will think for ourselves based on what is right rather than what someone tells us is right. American values are based on clear thinking. And that means the word REPENT still has value in America.
Hate etc.
Christians & "Hate" Bills
If "hate bill"-obsessed Congress [and Obama] can't protect Christians from "gays" as much as it wants to protect "gays" from Christians, will Congress be surprised if it can't protect itself from most everyone? If "hate bills" are forced on captive Americans, they'll still find ways to sneakily continue to "plant" Biblical messages everywhere. By doing so they'll hasten God's judgment on their oppressors as revealed in Proverbs 19:1. (See related web items including "David Letterman's Hate, Etc.," "Separation of Raunch and State," "Michael the Narc-Angel," "Obama Avoids Bible Verses," and "Tribulation Index becomes Rapture Index.") Since Congress can't seem to legislate "morality," it's making up for it by legislating "immorality"!
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Hate Crimes Laws
Anyone considering the merits of this issue should at least be aware that the progression of the LGBT agenda in California was to use the definitions of prohibited acts in hate crimes law, which is intended to be protective and is therefore quite broad, and apply it to the law governing public schools. So expressing "intent" that makes violent crime more punishable is now being applied to punish teachers and school employees who express any thought that anyone--not just gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people--MIGHT find offensive. We can expect that the same kinds of "censorship with a hammer" will be applied to all public employees, and to companies and individuals who provide goods and services to government, or who have ANY dealings with government. In other words, churches and pastors who criticize LGBT behavior as sinful will be frozen out of any government-related program, like adoption, and even performing marriages that are recognized as legally binding. It will become a basis to bar people from juries, from asking for zoning variances from local government (such as to build a bigger church), to get accreditation for a church-related private school. The LGBT magazines and web pages are explicit about the fact that they believe that getting same-sex marriage installed will destroy all legal distinctions between normal sex and LGBT varieties of behavior.
As usual
If people would realize what gays want: to be protect from physical violence. Obviously that is too much for most people to understand or too difficult.
I could care less if you tell others that I am going to hell because I am gay. I could care less if you want to preach your beliefs to others who are willing to listen. I could care less if you want to tell me that I'm going to hell, because I've already heard it, and I'm sure I will hear it another thousand times before I die.
The only thing I care about is whether or not you touch me to kill me or injure me.
Why can't you people understand that?
To Eric of Vermont
You say, "Are your rights being challenged? Mine are."
And what right is that, Eric? The right to treat others badly and cloak it in God's love?
When will you wake up and realize that your silly 'gods' cost this world and its citizens far too greatly.
It is always astounding to listen to religious folks come out of the woodwork to try and use God to justify their dispicable, ugly, behavior and true Christians want NO part in it.
Hate Crimes Bill
The homosexual agenda has screamed for tolerance. It has called for the right to openly do as they want. This happens with the idea of tolerance. We want the world to tolerate and accept their diversity. So why do I not have the right to be tolerated to preach against it? Do I not have the right of free speach? To me, there is alot of hate mongering going on from those that are excited about this hate crimes bill. Do I think that a person that is a homosexual should be beaten or physically harmed? NO! However, i do not agree with it based on the Bible. That is my right under freedom of religion that this country was founded. THe thing that concerns me is how many see it as freedom from religion. Everyone wants to talk about no God, Jesus, Holy Spirit-or that He is love and accepts everything. The truth is, is that God is love, but don't forget the He is holy. Whether you believe in God or not matters not to god, He knows you. I truly want to know where the hate is lying, it seems that it imminates from a lot from the writers here. Are your rights being challenged? Mine are.
It's Simple
Disagreement doesn't equate to hate.
Just because I don't condone certain actions, doesn't mean a person can muzzle my opinion in public. That is something our Founding Fathers have died for.
Gay rights
The conservative bigots have been discriminating for thousands of years against many groups (women, blacks, jews, gays, interracial couples) all in the name of God. It is about time they were put down for this.
Time for the church nuts to understand a seperation between church & state exists...you'll need to move on to the next group. This group is getting protection from YOU. I guess your plan back fired huh?
Read "Skeptics Annotated Bible"--God as killer
Someone did us a big favor by listing Chapter and Verse with details of why mythic God killed people-- or made people kill people, animals, etc. Kill firstborn Egyptian kids Ex 11:7, 12:29. Kill gays Lev 18:22, Lev 20:13. Ban-Abortionists refer to Gen 38:38:8-10, where God kills Er then tells Er's brother Onan to incest Er's wife. Onan refuses and sheds semen on ground. God calls that masturbation and condemns it. The act may be considered a form of birth control, CONDEMNED BY GOD, so Pro-Lifers love that part. The Bible is a very old collection of apparently unrecognized pornographic dirty jokes about incest and adultery. The tale of mythic Christ "dying on the Cross," --even though immortals can't die-appeals to sado-masochists. The sadists imagine themselves hammering in the spikes, inflicting pain, while masochists are sexually aroused by imagining they're suffering pain. The crucifixion story is a snuff novel. If entertainment became more violent, is it because believers say America is going back to Biblical values?
