Christians on High Alert Over Hate Crimes Passage

OneNewsNow.com ^ | 10/24/2009 | Charlie Butts

[GiovannaNicoletta]

A hate crimes bill sent to President Obama for his signature raises a red flag for Christians.

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed a hate crimes bill that Christian leaders have warned for years could greatly infringe on the rights of those who speak to loudly about their religious views. Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel agrees with most observers that President Obama will sign the measure -- adding that the president desires to "throw a bone to homosexual activists because they have been breathing down his neck...and this is a way to hold them off."

[The_Repugnant_Conservative]

As bad as the Philadelphia Case referenced in the article was. The only 1 of 8 charges listed that is similar would be Ethnic Intimidation. One charge more or less probably won’t have much affect on what the police do.

In addition to ethic intimidation the protesters were charged with rioting, criminal conspiracy, reckless endangerment, possessing an instrument of crime, highway obstruction, failure to disperse and disorderly conduct.

http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?id=20165

[red irish]

The death of Matthew Shepherd was awful but so was my brothers. Matthew was murdered and so was my brother, my brother was murdered by someone who did not know him but just wanted to beat him to death. It has always pissed me off that Matthew Shepherd life was so much more important, to the pc crowd, than anyone else, but evil and hate comes in all forms and shapes and it is not just about a person’s skin or sexual orientation. The whole hate crime bill is nothing but pc crap!!! How many children in this country have to be molested and murdered before there is a special crime bill to protect them and put sex offenders in jail on an island forever never to be seen or heard of again. I guess the homosexuals are being murdered left and right and need special protection especially above children. But we do have 50 million dead children the pc crowd never gives a thought about.