The insaninty grows!
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Posted on 01/25/2005 10:07:32 PM PST by scripter
A controversial amendment to the Illinois Human Rights Act, extending anti-discrimination protection on the basis of sexual orientation, was pushed vigorously in the legislature by the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The law, signed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich last week, allows no exemptions for people or institutions with religious convictions against sodomy, cross-dressing, adultery, sex changes, pornography, incest, group sex or even bestiality.
Some are suggesting the amendment is setting up a clash with the First Amendment protections of religious freedom.
The legislation, which had been stalled in the General Assembly for many years, was the focus of a major push by the ACLU of Illinois in 2004, according to the organization's annual report. It says John Knight, director of the group's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered Rights Project and ACLU legislative director Mary Dixon worked hard promoting the idea to the public and the bill to the legislators.
Knight assumed the position with the group in 2004 and also serves as the national ACLU's Midwest regional attorney for the Lesbian and Gay Rights and AIDS Projects.
The bill passed the General Assembly with bipartisan support. Of the 98 Democrat legislators, only 19 opposed it. In addition, 12 Republicans voted in favor of the measure.
The ACLU report suggests that same-sex marriage is also high on the organization's agenda.
"Confronting some of the unwarranted and mean-spirited arguments with reason, facts and stories about the real harm done to couples has been an important aspect of our work on behalf of the gay and lesbian community this year," it says. "John Knight is an integral part of this effort, planning a series of town hall meetings across the state of Illinois designed to 'bring home' the problems faced by lesbian and gay male couples and their families when these couples are denied the legal benefits extended to heterosexual couples, including legal rights to pensions, health insurance, hospital visitations and inheritance."
The annual report from the ACLU of Illinois included a photograph of one of the group's board members, David Goroff, in a "family portrait" with his male partner, Jay Behel, and their son.
The passage of the legislation has set off a firestorm of protest, particularly among the state's church leaders.
The Illinois Family Institute, or IFI, a non-profit group affiliated with Focus on the Family, Family Research Council and Alliance Defense Fund, protested the governor's signing of the law.
The measure adds "sexual orientation" to the state law that bars discrimination based on race, religion and similar traits in areas such as jobs and housing.
"This legislation sends a clear message that we will not allow our citizens to be discriminated against," Blagojevich said in a statement. "What we're doing today is older than scripture: Love thy neighbor," the governor told the audience yesterday, according to the Associated Press. "It's what Jesus said when he gave his Sermon on the Mount: 'Do unto others what you would have others do unto you."'
Illinois is the 15th state to prohibit discrimination based on "sexual orientation."
But IFI Executive Director Peter LaBarbera notes the bill's sponsor, state Sen. Carol Ronen, D-Chicago, is on record stating it should be applied to churches, meaning they would not be allowed, for example, to reject a job applicant who practices homosexual behavior.
Ronen said: "If that is their goal, to discriminate against gay people, this law wouldn't allow them to do that. But I don't believe that's what the Catholic Church wants or stands for."
LaBarbera argues politicians who don't view homosexuality as a sin have no right to take away the freedom of churches and people of faith to disagree.
The law applies to organizations or businesses with more than 15 employees.
LaBarbera points out the Illinois law firm Ungaretti & Harris, which specializes in labor and employment issues, published an analysis of the measure, which says: "While many such municipal prohibitions on sexual orientation discrimination expressly exempt religious organizations from their coverage, the new amendment to Illinois' Human Rights Act does not."
The analysis adds: "The question inevitably presented by this omission is whether the Bill will be applied to compel religious organizations to set aside convictions about homosexuality when making employment decisions. ... The measure may ultimately force courts to consider and balance its ban on sexual orientation discrimination with State and Federal constitutional safeguards of religious freedom."
LaBarbera says that with enactment of this law, government is coming down on one side of a heated moral controversy by forcing the acceptance of homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality.
"It's about saying that 'gay rights' are more important than religious freedoms, and we hope ultimately it will be struck down in court," he said.
The bill was passed on the last day of a lame-duck legislative session after a campaign by the state's leading homosexual lobby, Equality Illinois.
No real surprise there.
Just more radical extremism from the leftist AMERICAN COMMUNIST LOSERS UNION.
he-he...
So now I can add NAMBLA to the memberships list of my resume?
(Just kidding!)
Works every time.
Let the church try to get into politics and the yell goes out, "separation of church and state". But let the government get into the chuch, well, that must be a horse of a different color and it stinks like a skunk.
The U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled against this issue and upheld the right of the Boy Scouts of America to bar homosexual leaders.
The State of Illinois can pass whatever laws it likes in regards to this matter but it will not be enforceable.
Federal laws trumps State law.
"Federal laws trumps State law."
Right you are, and thank goodness. I live in Illinois and politically can't stand it. Our whole state legislature plus the governorship are in DemoRat hands. We are doomed in this state. And I doubt if the people in this State will wake up. Too many liberals and politically ignorant independents.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the *free exercise thereof".
* Where does the law state that Private Christian businesses have to change and redefine religious beliefs to appease sodomites?
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http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=16537&c=27
The ACLU must be stopped. They operate on taxpayer money, and then spit in our face.
Someone mentioned here NAMBLA. I would not be surprised one bit if the ACLU is helping them, too, with the taxpayers' money.
Their son? Someone is living in la-la land. Poor kid.
If the only change to the existing law was that it added sexual orientation to the existing Human Rights Law in Illinois then it does contain a provision exempting religious organizations.
I looked up the existing law and it has this provision:"(2) "Employer" does not include any religious corporation, association, educational institution, society, or non-profit nursing institution conducted by and for those who rely upon treatment by prayer through spiritual means in accordance with the tenets of a recognized church or religious denomination with respect to the employment of individuals of a particular religion to perform work connected with the carrying on by such corporation, association, educational institution, society or non-profit nursing institution of its activities.
The insaninty grows!
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"The annual report from the ACLU of Illinois included a photograph of one of the group's board members, David Goroff, in a "family portrait" with his male partner, Jay Behel, and their son."
The ACLU from its National Director to this maggot appears to be controlled and run by vile gay who push the Gay Agenda 24/7.
For the moment. Since natural law arguments are no longer accepted by the SC, any kind of ruling is possible. "If there is no God, everything is permitted."
..... in a "family portrait" with his male partner, Jay Behel, and their son."
Jeez! So I wonder ..... which one of these perverts BORE their child?
Fudgepackers are against America, GW, Christians, and Republicans.
Hey hey hey, it's National No Name Calling Week!
ahhh... I forgot!
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Ping!
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition (GREATLY ORGANIZED ACTIVIST SITE..PLEASE JOIN) - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings
See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU
This yahoo group just started on December 3, 2004 and is looking for new members
The Center For Reclaiming America (petitions to congress)
American Family Assn. Center for Law and Policy
"I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produced the wealth: communism is the goal." - Roger Baldwin, ACLU founder, Harvard Reunion Book, 1935
"The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body to forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on." - William Z. Foster, ACLU co-founder and former chairman, Communist Party USA.
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BTTT!
BUMP!
Excellent point...
Whew!
You don't know how much better I feel now.
I was getting a little worried about the folks in Illinois!
Yah, this kid already has 2 strikes against him. (the 2 deviates he has to live with.)
Damn!...Are you sure it's a whole week?...Damn
They are. They're defending one (or two) a*holes who raped and murdered a little boy - was it Massachusetts? Someone on the East Coast. Because of of the rapist murderers is a member of NAMBALA.
No exemptions for people or institutions with religious convictions against sodomy, cross-dressing, adultery, sex changes, pornography, incest, group sex or even bestiality?He's declared war on morality and normalcy. This is a truly sick individual.
It's hard to say whether Illinois can sink any lower into hell.
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The State of Illinois can pass whatever laws it likes in regards to this matter but it will not be enforceable.
Federal laws trumps State law.
There is some hope in that. But, then again... The Second Amendment includes the whole country, but it's a felony to carry a piece in the People's Republic of Illinois.
Peter LaBarbera of IFI has emerged as the loudest "voice" in Illinois. His "leadereship" has been to distract the time and energy supporters from effective get-out-the-vote activities so they can waste their time on meaningless symbolism.
The practical politicians see that Illinois conservatives perfer meaningless symbolism over effective get-out-the-vote efforts. In contrast, the practical politicians see that the gay activists are not engaged in symbolism. They do get-out-the-vote. The result is the practical politicians vote the way they do.
I say we take this issue and beat every legislator who supported it like a red-headed stepchild.
EV (former red-headed stepchild)
;-)
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