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‘Hate crimes’ bill passed by House could threaten religious freedoms, critics warn
cna ^ | October 10, 2009

Posted on 10/10/2009 6:36:03 AM PDT by NYer

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To: DHSMostWanted
This is how they will get the Tea Party Protesters.

Fine, then the Second Amendment, well exercised since the Obama freight train began rolling down the track, will be how we deal with them. It's what the second amendment is for. Still I hope we aren't forced into using it.

21 posted on 10/10/2009 9:52:37 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Tarpon
A crime is crime, killing someone is murder, and there is still equal protection under the law.

While that is indeed true, the provision making it a *federal* crime to kill or attempt to kill a person because of their *federal* status has some merit, although whether it's needed or not is another issue.

22 posted on 10/10/2009 9:54:56 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

Not with equal justice under the law ... What will Dodomayor say.

So yo saying murder is more criminal under federal law?

This is exactly the kind of crap that causes us big trouble, divide and conquer. We don’t need protected species of people.

Equal is equal ...


23 posted on 10/10/2009 11:03:31 AM PDT by Tarpon (Oba-Mao is a reader, not a leader ...)
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To: NYer
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, charged in a Thursday statement that the hate crimes legislation was a “thought-crimes bill”

He is exactly right. There is a reference to "gender identity" as being protected. We are either male or female, right? What other genders do people "identify" with? I guess if someone is a Semenya, we must learn to not offend....

24 posted on 10/10/2009 1:04:26 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (GO DODGERS!!! ALL THE WAY!!!)
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To: aimhigh

It was tacked on to a military spending bill, if you can imagine that. It’s how they’re getting things done, you know, the “remaking” of AmeriKKKa.


25 posted on 10/10/2009 1:06:00 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (GO DODGERS!!! ALL THE WAY!!!)
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To: LadyShires

You have way too much common sense and clear thinking for today’s world.


26 posted on 10/10/2009 1:07:08 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (GO DODGERS!!! ALL THE WAY!!!)
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To: flowerplough
"the police said the campaigner had not behaved in a violent or aggressive manner, but that officers arrested him because he distributed fliers... that listed the medical dangers of homosexual behavior. He was charged with a "hate speech" violation of Canada's hate crimes law. Anil Pandila, ruled that Whatcott violated the ban on the publication and distribution of anything "that ridicules, belittles or otherwise affronts the dignity of any person on the basis of sexual orientation."... it did not matter whether the material was true or whether it reflected Whatcott's Christian beliefs"

Surreal. This is not a slippery slope - it's more like pulling 12 G's in a nose dive!

Belittles? Ridicules? Affronts the dignity?

A cop, DA, and judge are going to make a determination on whether a leaflet with medical information is an affront to a homosexual's dignity at a friggin' Marti Gras parade where the more conservative gays wear a thong and bondage chains?

WOW!!! JUST WOW!!!???

27 posted on 10/10/2009 1:41:59 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; conservatives believe what they see.)
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To: NYer

I hope that every Christian minister preaches a sermon on this subject this Sunday. The enemy is united and on the attack and we have to also be united and ready to fight back.


28 posted on 10/10/2009 5:16:52 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: La Enchiladita

This is yet another example of the Democrats spitting in the faces of our troops. This was nothing more than political blackmail, forcing the Republicans to choose between funding the military or passing an unconstitutional thought crime law. I hope that everyone in the military or anyone who has ever served, or any father, mother, brother, sister, wife, aunt, uncle or cousin of anyone who has ever served rememebers this and expresses their anger in the presence of all their family and friends. It is time to rip the hypocritical mask off the Democrats faces. They deserve nothing but scorn and political exile. Never forgive. Never forget.


29 posted on 10/10/2009 5:34:06 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: NYer
Since the Hate Crimes Bill was in the DEFENSE BUDGET, there goes "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"!

They will say say this applies to the Military to not discriminate and VOILA...>PINK MILITARY.......it is DISGUSTING! Our once fine military will be no more.

30 posted on 10/11/2009 4:50:11 AM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: Tarpon

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly (accepting his premise),

attack his premise.

There is no other goal of this legislation than to outlaw Christian beliefs and to use the power of the State to punish those who espouse them.


31 posted on 10/11/2009 4:57:30 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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