It is likely that parts of the following
essay are over the top.
That is, exaggerated, unqualified
about various particulars,
and less than totally objective. It was
placed in Human Events
for a fee. Clearly it reflects a
conservative agenda.
Nonetheless, Human Events is reputable
and will not publish
anything deemed untrustworthy. This being
the case, even if
we discount as much as a 1/3rd of the
following paper ( no real
reason to discount a third, but for the
sake of argument ). we
are still left with a massive indictment
of Obama social policy.
Will the MSM as much as report about this
? Not likely.
The death of Michael Jackson is "too
important." the death
of a child abuser matters too much.
Let me be candid, when news of Michael
Jackson's death was announced
I could not help myself. Spontaneously, I
cheered, with enthusiasm. The death of
someone who has
done as much to damage American culture as anyone alive
was good news, indeed.
Alas, the same kind of warped mentality
that now is in evidence everywhere
in numerous tributes to Jackson will, in
all probability, work to censor
the news which the Human Events article
discusses.
Billy Rojas
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Human Events
June 26, 2009
JUDICIARY HEARING
CONFIRMS "PUNISH PASTORS, PROTECT PEDOPHILES." WITNESSES BIASED: 4
FOR "HATE CRIMES," 2 CONSERVATIVES ALLOWED.
The
Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings Thursday from 10 am on
the "Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act," (which is better
known to conservatives as the "Pedophile Protection Act,"), but did not vote on
S.909 as a stand-alone bill, and did not yet forward to the full Senate,
giving us a few more days
to act. The bill broadly defines many "sexual
orientations" requiring protection by federal prosecutors, endangering
free speech.
The pro-homosexual, anti-faith bill,
is sponsored by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and 43 Democrats (and 2
Liberal Republicans from Maine), and is pushed hard by President
Obama's Administration, 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, our public pressure
forced a minimal 2-hour public debate, which exposed more
anti-Christian bias, but
Democrats so far have not permitted amendments.
Only 2 conservative testimonies were permitted at the
hearings, versus 4 pro-gay liberals.
* Attorney General Eric Holder linked the bill to illegal immigrant
rights, but "national origin" is already protected by 1994 law, and 75%
of Hispanics oppose gay marriage. Holder also admitted Christian pastors
would not be protected if assaulted by violent homosexuals.
* Janet Langhart Cohen, wife of former SECDEF Wm Cohen, supported the
pro-hate bill.
* Dr. Mark Achtemeier, a liberal theology professor made
homosexual-friendly statements.
* Gail Heriot, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 6 of 8 leaders members
oppose hate bill.
* Brian W. Walsh, The Heritage Foundation, a good legal voice opposing
the hate bill.
* Michael Lieberman, counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, originator
of the hate bill.
* Senator Leahy tried to
link the bill to a shooting at the Holocaust museum, but "religion" is
already protected by the 1994 hate-crimes bill, and shouldn't be
tied to homosexual rights.
* Senator Feinstein hailed Matthew Shepard's case, but ABC News 20/20
quotes the lead investigator: "sexual
orientation certainly wasn't the motive in [Shepard's] homicide."
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SEXUAL DEVIANCES TO BE PROTECTED BY FEDERAL MARSHALS
Even
if mark-up amendments are permitted (which can be easily deleted in
conference), 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 - 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
Congressman Steve King (R-IA) said 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."
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.
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."
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.
| x |
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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| x |
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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Thank you for reading our lengthy
analysis............
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God Bless you, in Jesus' name,
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Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt
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