Posted on 06/28/2011 7:33:51 AM PDT by IbJensen
“A hate crime is usually defined by state law as one that involves threats, harassment, or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability.” - USLegal.com
The Knight of the Long Knives continues as the homosexual lobby commits one hate crime after another.
The latest victim of homosexual bigots? New York state senator Ruben Diaz, D-Bronx, the only Democrat who voted against granting same-couples the “right” to marry in New York.
Diaz proudly says he is a “Christian first and then a Democrat,” and added that, “I always vote my conscience.”
Says Diaz, “As a Christian and as the President of the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization, I will continue to defend the teachings of the Bible and oppose homosexual marriage.”
In the debate that crested with Republicans casting the deciding votes to legitimize homosexual “marriage,” Diaz was blunt, direct and clear. “God, not Albany, has settled the definition of marriage a long time ago.”
For taking a principled, religiously-rooted stand for the institution that undergirds all of human civilization, Diaz has become the latest in a long, sad string of victims of the true hatemongers in America, homosexuals activists. Their hate crime against him is motivated by prejudice against his religion, which teaches that God designed marriage exclusively as the union of one man and one woman.
Diaz and his family received death threats during the same-sex marriage debate and controversy, and his daughter was threatened with sexual assault by the same people who say you’re not supposed to force your values on anyone. The threats have been reported to the police and the FBI. (Good luck getting any help from them.) He has also received a barrage of hate calls.
Remember the legal definition of a “threat” for hate crimes purposes:
“It is an expression of an intention to inflict an evil or injury on another person...A threat is also defined as a menace that keeps the mind of a person upon whom a threat operates unsettled.” - USLegal.com
On top of that, homosexual paragons of tolerance sponsored a “F--- Ruben Diaz Festival” in a gay bar in Brooklyn.
Says Diaz, a Pentecostal pastor, "I have never preached hate. They're showing that they're the ones that are doing the hateful things."
Added Diaz in a recent press release, “I continue to be the target of a vulgar campaign by seething extremists who oppose my defense of New York’s marriage laws. As a Christian, of course I love those who hate me and I will continue to pray for their souls.” And gay activists say that he is the hater! Sounds a lot more like Jesus Christ to me.
His Democratic colleagues, the self-proclaimed champions of the downtrodden and victimized, are no help, saying he’s getting what he deserves. “You reap what you sow,” said one.
Gay activist Jonathan Rauch admitted that the hatemongers on the left are at risk of overplaying their hand:
"Incidents of rage against 'haters,' verbal abuse of opponents, boycotts of small-business owners, absolutist enforcement of anti-discrimination laws: Those and other 'zero-tolerance' tactics play into the 'homosexual bullies' narrative. The other side in short, is counting on us to hand them the victimhood weapon. Our task is to deny it to them."
Well, if they were trying to deny Sen. Ruben Diaz the “victimhood weapon,” consider their efforts an epic fail.
Wrote Richard Barnes, executive director of the New York Catholic Conference:
“Where is the cry for tolerance and justice for Rev. Diaz against these hate purveyors?...The entire campaign to enact same-sex marriage is conducted under a banner of acceptance, and equality and respect for others. Yet behind that banner of tolerance is another campaign – of intimidation, threats and ugliness. What at first appears to be simple juvenile behavior by a few is becoming a culture and climate of abusiveness toward those who disagree. Is this the future we look forward to in our state? Intolerance masquerading as tolerance, intimidation in the name of respect? I hope not, but the wind certainly seems to be blowing in that direction.”
Mr. Barnes, the winds are not only blowing in that direction, they are reaching hurricane force.
Chuck Colson is another whose eyes are wide open to the steaming hate billowing from the denizens of the homosexual lobby. "The gay-rights groups have shown their fangs. They want to silence, yes, destroy those who don't agree with their agenda."
Homosexuals are rapidly cementing their position as the number one perpetrators of hate crimes in American today. Sen. Diaz is simply the latest prey of the hatemongering hunters on the left, who live in mortal fear that someone, somewhere, actually believes what God says about marriage and human sexuality. And the list will grow longer before it grows shorter.
Gay Pride indeed. Homosexual shame and eternal hellfire to them and their insane accommodators.
Hillary heads the list with allowing our disgraceful State Department to be used as the repulsive Gaga's agent. Hillary promoted GG's appearance ata 'Pride' day event in Rome.
Get rid of the evil regime!
Reference please.
While their number is no doubt highly disproportionate, I doubt it's an absolute majority, much less a "vast majority."
The answer is going to depend on how you define “serial killer”. Moreover, sodomite (a broader classification), not homosexual, would be give a more accurate perspective.
On that basis, I’d also like to see the results. Bear in mind, however, that the government is now trying to suppress information about the pathological behavior of sodomites and the consequences, much like it tries to suppress information about crime by “minorities”.
You can thank the gutless Republican fop senators for this.
We will never vote for a state republican again!
I don’t know about serial killings but many high profile serial killers were gay and it is problably disproportionate much like child molestation and of course homosexuals report being abused as children a far greater rate than the general population. I know it isn’t PC to talk about this but it is a fact. Gays are also more likely to commit suicide, abuse drugs, etc. What is horrible is that young kids are being encouraged to get involved in this lifestyle at ever earlier ages which places them at nearly the same level of risk that being involved in a gang does.
The churches in New York are missing a bet.
The best response to homosexuals wanting to defile their sacrament, is to make that sacrament holier and better. And most importantly, more joyous.
To do so will make the “marriages” of the sacrilegious “like gall and wormwood in their mouths.”
One idea would be to “upgrade” marriages by leading off the ceremony with a small confirmation ceremony for several young children, with their “reward” to be (polite) guests at the wedding, to witness the next stage in their growth.
But there are many things churches could do to make the marriages “even better”. It takes some creativity.
At the same time, even a name change, a qualifier, to the word marriage, can also matter. Some years ago, some States created “covenant marriage”, which became very popular. But a better qualifier would be one that indicated that it was a “real, heterosexual and orthodox” marriage.
And copyright that expression. So, when Bob and Larry say that they are “married”, Tom and Janice can say that they are “______ married”, which means a traditional, religious, heterosexual marriage, that homosexuals can’t have, even if they get “married” in the liberal “Church of the flying leap off a short pier”.
Actually, look at the voting record of the greater Catholic constituency and you will notice who it is that elects the left to do this damage. For all of the talk of biblical values, no make that organizational traditions, the Catholics generally are liberal, left-leaning adopters of homosexuality, abortion, open marriage, and other behaviors which tear at the fabric of America (Pelosi, Biden, etc.). These Catholics talk a good story, but find a ready team of haters allied with them from among the psycho-liberation theology of Jermiah Wrights (Obama, Van Jones, etc.) to bring about exactly what we are getting in NY.
Tom and Janice can say that they are “actually married”
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They have taken a page from the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton who used the same tactics of intimidation and coercion.
It depends on your definition of Catholic. Folks that go to Mass regularly are very conservative. Folks that go only at Easter and Christmas are liberals.
So the great majority of Catholics are not Dems?
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As opposed to your non-Christian cult which voted 75% plus for the democrats, right?
Ahhh, you have detected the benefit of not belonging to a cult, at all. Unfortunately, Rome requires membership to their "club", then brings in the Pelosis, Bidens, Kennedys and other liberals who train the Catholic constituency to think like they do. And, it is no wonder the rank and file go democrat with the pedophile priests giving "communion" to those who promote homosexuality, aborttion, and communism. Don't you guys get tired of it?
Yes, that’s the benefit of not belong to a cult but belonging to orthodoxy as I do. For a member of a cult such as yours, that’s really sad — I tell your cult members to go worship your non-Christian robot-maker god. We Christians will pray for you. ta-ta
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