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PASTOR ARRESTED FOR PREACHING
by Tom Barrett, Publisher, ConservativeTruth.org July 29, 2002
NEW YORK CITY: The Rev. Joseph Jenkins was arrested
today as he preached to his congregation of 500. As he said, �The Bible says it
is a sin for a man to lie with a man!� four federal undercover agents rose from
their seats in the crowded church and handcuffed the pastor. He was later
charged before a US Magistrate under the federal �Hate Crimes� law.�
"Far-fetched! Impossible! That will never happen!�
Not at all. There are forces at work in this nation to deny every citizen the
right to say, publicly or privately, what they know or believe to be true if it
does not fit within politically correct guidelines. Ministers or rabbis who
proclaim the clear teachings of the Bible regarding homosexuality will be jailed
if these forces have their way. Anyone who expresses an unpopular ideology will
be persecuted.
Recently one of our readers sent me a short note.
All it said was, "Tom, you are a Watchman on the Wall.� Of course he was
referring to the fact that in ancient Israel many cities had walls around them
to protect the inhabitants from enemies. Since most attacks could be expected to
come at night, when the citizens were asleep and unprepared, watchmen were
appointed to stand on the city walls and warn the populace of danger so that
they could prepare to defend themselves.
If I am indeed a "Watchman on the Wall,� I can
think of few dangers more grave about which I can warn America than the
so-called "Hate Crimes� legislation that is springing up everywhere. The idea
behind these laws is that we can look into people�s hearts and determine what
they were thinking when they committed a crime. That is a dangerous notion.
Years ago novels were written about government
"Thought Police� controlling what citizens were and were not allowed to believe
and think. "Hate Crimes� laws will make such an improbable concept very probable
if America does not heed the warnings of the serious danger of this kind of
legislation.
Any clear-thinking American can see that these laws
are unconstitutional, immoral, and just plain stupid. Then why are politicians
falling over each other to endorse "Hate Crimes� laws? A clue can be found in
the article, "The Hate Crime Express.� (See the RESOURCES Section below.)
This article states, "Texas Gov. Rick Perry didn't
really want a �hate-crimes� bill to land on his desk. But when it did, he signed
it inside of three hours.� Why? The name of the bill was "The James Byrd Jr.
Hate Crimes Act.� James Byrd was the black man who was dragged behind a pickup
truck by three white men. Hate crime activists had cynically seized upon the
suffering of Mr. Byrd�s family to promote their agenda.
What is wrong with "Hate Crimes� laws? They violate
the constitutional concepts of equal justice and equal protection under the law.
Let�s look at a couple of examples, one hypothetical, and one from the news.
To illustrate the inequality of justice that will
inevitably result from "Hate Crimes� laws, let�s imagine an altercation between
two men at a soccer game. One is a middle-aged sports fan; the other a
homosexual dressed in a feminine manner. They get into a fistfight over which
team is best, and police arrive to arrest them. Both are charged with the
misdemeanor offense of disturbing the peace, and released, right? Wrong. The
homosexual claims that the other man called him a "homo.� The homosexual (now a
"victim�) is set free, and the other man is charged with a serious "Hate Crime�
which could land him in prison for many years.
Here�s one from the news to illustrate the loss of
equal protection that will result from "Hate Crimes� laws. (For more details on
this story, see the article "Dual Murders�� in the RESOURCES section below.) Two
students are found murdered at a school for the deaf. One is a homosexual.
Homosexual activists immediately trumpet the "fact� that this student was
murdered because he was a homosexual. When the truth emerges, we find that
another student murdered both boys for their money.
If the murderer had been convicted using "Hate
Crimes� laws, his punishment would have been much more severe for the murder of
the homosexual than for the straight student. Does this mean that heterosexuals�
lives are worth less than those of homosexuals? Apparently so, if you listen to
homosexual activists.
These activists know that homosexuality is not
popular, so they have seized on the strategy of using black people to advance
their crusade for "Hate Crimes� laws. Fortunately for the nation, their wild
claims of widespread "Hate Crimes� perpetrated by whites against blacks have
been proven false, as this excerpt shows: "African-Americans who thought that
hate crime laws would protect them against rampaging white racists are in for a
shock: A new FBI study reveals that blacks are proportionally one-and-a-half
times more likely to be arrested for hate crimes against whites than vice
versa.� (The complete article can be found in the RESOURCES section.)
Let�s face facts. EVERY murder is a hate crime;
people don�t murder people they like! Every physical ATTACK is a hate crime; you
don�t hit someone on the head with a brick to demonstrate love. We have
thousands of laws against these crimes. We don�t need to double the penalties
for existing crimes because the Thought Police believe the perpetrator might
have been thinking hateful thoughts during the crime.
Then what is this all about? In very simple terms,
homosexual activists are determined to make it a crime for Christians and Jews
to say what the Bible so clearly says - that it is against the laws of God and
nature for people of the same gender to have sex with one another. They will not
be satisfied until the law says that homosexuals are more equal than
heterosexuals. ***
____________________ Tom Barrett is the Publisher of
ConservativeTruth.org. You can e mail him at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crooked politicians, illegal aliens, a country in
moral decay . . .
all of that and more made Steve Vaus mad. So mad that he decided to write a song. The song has become a rallying cry for "patriots"
from coast to coast.
It is probably the most popular recording on talk radio. Listen and you'll understand why. The music video which was prominently featured on
The Nashville Network
and Country Music Television is available at Steve Vaus' web site. http://www.stevevaus.com/ ab
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