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by user Rmthunter I just ran across this story at Box Turtle Bulletin, and it brings home again how poverty-stricken the theocratic right is in the marketplace of ideas. If they have to resort to lies to drum up support, it strikes me that they are neither very Christian nor very American. House bill H.R. 1592 and Senate bill S. 1105 would make negative statements concerning homosexuality, such as calling the practice of homosexuality a sin from the pulpit, a “hate crime” punishable by law. This dangerous legislation would take away your freedom of speech and your freedom of religion.

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  • by user Rmthunter I just ran across this story at Box Turtle Bulletin, and it brings home again how poverty-stricken the theocratic right is in the marketplace of ideas. If they have to resort to lies to drum up support, it strikes me that they are neither very Christian nor very American. House bill H.R. 1592 and Senate bill S. 1105 would make negative statements concerning homosexuality, such as calling the practice of homosexuality a sin from the pulpit, a “hate crime” punishable by law. This dangerous legislation would take away your freedom of speech and your freedom of religion.
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  • by user Rmthunter I just ran across this story at Box Turtle Bulletin, and it brings home again how poverty-stricken the theocratic right is in the marketplace of ideas. If they have to resort to lies to drum up support, it strikes me that they are neither very Christian nor very American. House bill H.R. 1592 and Senate bill S. 1105 would make negative statements concerning homosexuality, such as calling the practice of homosexuality a sin from the pulpit, a “hate crime” punishable by law. This dangerous legislation would take away your freedom of speech and your freedom of religion. None of what they say about these bills is true. I suspect you've all been through enough debates on hate/bias crimes legislation to understand that such laws don't criminalize speech. You can't be arrested for speaking your mind in this country (unless you're at a rally for the president or vice-president, and even then, the Secret Service tries to avoid actually arresting anyone -- that's left to "overzealous local party members"). It seems to me that if you have to lie about what's in a piece of legislation to drum up support for opposing it, something's not quite on the up-and-up. Box Turtle Bulletin provides a link to the actual text of the bill (which, by the way, AFA does not), which I'm repeating here. And, surfing a little farther, I ran across this post at Wayne Besen, about Rev. Harry Jackson, who seems to be almost a text-book example of what I described above. Can one of the Christians out there explain to me why telling lies in God's name is OK? Jackson's also miffed because gays have "hijacked" civil rights. I hadn't realized civil rights had been copyrighted. If these are the kind of people who are opposing equality for gays, it only stands for reason that supporting that equality is the right thing to do. (A footnote: You'll notice that both Burroway and Besen do something that you won't see on the AFA or similar sites: they actually provide evidence for what they write.) __NOEDITSECTION__ From The Opinion Wiki, a Wikia wiki. From The Opinion Wiki, a Wikia wiki.
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