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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Yep, you get it.

The bill the democrats wanted would have made it a crime for a Christian to openly oppose homosexuality.


3 posted on 11/05/2011 10:23:52 AM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: cripplecreek
"The bill the democrats wanted would have made it a crime for a Christian to openly oppose homosexuality."

Oh, it's far, far worse than that. The bill prohibits any gesture or writing or utterance -- on or off school property and including electronically transmitted communication -- that is perceived as being motivated by race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

This is a wholesale abridgement of First Amendment rights. It is a pathetic attempt to use the law to force people to be nice, and is fraught with all sorts potential for supposedly unintended consequences.

But, really, it's just another demonstration of the incompetence of government to provide essential services like education and, more fundamentally, how any expansion of the state (e.g., education, health care) comes at the expense of liberty.

12 posted on 11/05/2011 10:49:59 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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