If You Value Your Freedom of Speech, Then Beware of HR 1592
The Thought Police are alive and well in the disguise of "hate speech" enforcers. Last year Philadelphia jailed a few Christian grandmas that were protesting at a Gay Parade, because they classified that as a "hate crime". Now the Donks in Congress want to make it a Federal Crime and jail Christians.
Speak out against Gays and be charged with a "hate crime". Speak out against radical Muslims and be charged with a "hate crime". Where will it end? Since when is it a crime to use your First Amendment Right? Since the Political Correctness police and their allies the Donks have pushed the courts to rule as such and are pushing their unconstitutional agenda through the current Congress.
Welcome to 1984 in 2007
Mr Minority
Debate has been launched in Congress on a federal "hate speech" proposal similar to a state law that already has been used to send grandmothers to jail for their "crime" of sharing the Gospel of Jesus on a Philadelphia public sidewalk. And Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute told members that "our society needs to heed voices of conscience – not haul them into court."
Dacus said in comments prepared for presentation to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security that H.R. 1592 would use the power and authority of the federal government to stifle free speech, especially religious speech.
He talked about the misuse of "hate crimes" laws that give those claiming "sexual orientation" or "gender identity" discrimination special legal rights, pointing out that such a maneuver recently was used, as WND has reported, by the Hindu American Foundation to label a long list of Christian ministry websites who promote Christian beliefs and offer the choice of those beliefs to those involved in other religions as "hate speech."
"What makes America great is its tolerance for a diversity of viewpoints – even viewpoints we may not agree with. H.R. 1592 is a smokescreen for stifling dissent on important issues of national debate such as sexual orientation, gender identity and religion," he said.
Speak out against Gays and be charged with a "hate crime". Speak out against radical Muslims and be charged with a "hate crime". Where will it end? Since when is it a crime to use your First Amendment Right? Since the Political Correctness police and their allies the Donks have pushed the courts to rule as such and are pushing their unconstitutional agenda through the current Congress.
Welcome to 1984 in 2007
Mr Minority
