under the guise of “hate crimes” legislation.
Just hours after the White House issued a veto threat Thursday, the House voted to add gender and sexual orientation to the categories covered by federal hate crimes law.
As noted previously on Lone Star Times, this bill will make it a crime for a pastor, rabbi, priest or imam to say that the Bible says homosexuality is a sin if by chance someone within earshot then commits a crime against a homosexual.
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the only openly gay man in the House, presided over the chamber as the final vote was taken.
It’s fitting that a guy that once had a gay prostitution ring running out of his house would be in charge of a vote limiting religious speech.
“It does not impinge on public speech or writing in any way,” countered Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., pointing out that the bill explicitly reaffirms First Amendment and free speech rights.
Of course, one of his fellow committee members admitted in the hearings on this bill that it would indeed affect religious speech.
Will President Bush veto this bill? You can help by contacting your representative, senators and by writing and calling the White House. At some point in time, we must stop the slow and steady march of liberalism in the United States or we will be stripped of all freedom.
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The Veto Pen will begin scribbling in 5,4,3,2….
I knew they would pass this. They don’t give a flip about the far reaching ramifications. I am sick of this congress.
The sorry %&@#^&!# just discovered his veto pen yesterday.
Don’t count on it.
But AW, they’ve only been in power four months! Imagine how you’re going to feel next year.
#3 Shannon…see Drudge.
#4 bigjolly…I figure I’ll be on Prozak by next year.
Will they let me be an illegal emmigrant in Mexico? I thought not. I’ve had enought of both parties, I’m glad that my home will be paid off soon,so I can start saving the money up to pay my taxes.
#4 and #6 mood altering drugs may be in my future.
#8… I am considering hallucinogens.
Once this nonsense would not have worried me. But after McCain/Feingold and the eminent domain fiasco with the SCOTUS, I don’t put anything past them.
I did an amotization oh my property taxes with a 10% increase per year and discovered that in 12 years when I reach 65 I will be paying 1165 per MONTH in property taxes on a house I paid less than 50K for in the 90’s. I will still owe over 5 years on my mortgage with a P & I of 303.00 month
Maybe switzerland, I always did want to see the alps
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200705/POL20070503d.html
Please come now Jesus….
The Bible does say homosexuality is a sin. Is the congress suggesting that we deny the right to express the word of God? If so then I will now be a criminal.
Now we can be held accountable for a mind crime….
Orwell was a prophet…
#8 and #9
Is that like LDS or was that LSD? Sorry that was a flash back to a Star Trek movie. :)))
Just looking at the upside. The Democrats, if for any reason this gets passed (unlikely due to veto-yeah!) it will make it easier for the GOP to win the 2008 elections.
I always look at the sunny side, but this is a price waaay to high.
NO
He will sign the bill and hope that the Supremes overturn it. We saw how well that worked with McCain/Feingold.
Welcome to the former Soviet Union. Only difference is we have a Mexican president in Jorge Bushnandez.
#18: Squawk: Why do you think that on this bill? Religious Free Speech bill vs. McCain/Feingold bill? (_?_) Huh? Where’s the connection and logic?
southerntragedy
Both bills have freedom of speech issues involved.
Bush should have vetoed McCain/Feingold. He was advised by his own people, not to mention the population at large, to veto. He did not want to stir the pot or burn political capital so he signed the bill knowing that it would end up in the Supreme Court. His hope was that the courts would overturn the law. They did not and we are stuck.
Same thing here. Bush will sign the bill with little fanfare but praise it as a law needed to stop hate and all that crap. Again knowing that this will end up in the courts. Again counting on the courts to do his job.
And on that note, instead of telling the world court to take a jump he requested the death penalty question of foreign nationals be addressed by the Supremes. Do I detect a trend here or what?
Aren’t all crimes - by definition - *hate* crimes? Therefore isn’t the *hate crimes* legislation redundant?
And…have you noticed that everytime another bill is passed, another freedom flys out the window?
One_Voice,
Yes, yes.
And a resounding yes.