1st Amendment to be flushed by next Friday

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National Prayer Network

EMERGENCY ALERT ! ! !
HATE BILL FAST FORWARDING TO VOTE IN HOUSE

By Rev. Ted Pike
24 Apr 07

The House version of the federal "anti-hate" bill, H.R. 1592, is scheduled for a last hearing in the Subcommittee on Crime on Tuesday, April 24. The next day the entire House Judiciary Committee will consider the marked-up version, making its own changes. If approved, the bill will be sent forward to the House to be voted on, perhaps immediately.

Those who love free speech must respond NOW with unprecedented calling, not only to the member of the House from your district but to as many members of the House of Representatives as possible. All House members are listed at www.truthtellers.org. The toll-free number is 1-877-851-6437, or call toll 1-202-224-3121.

Tell them: "Please don't vote for any hate crimes legislation. Hate laws have taken away free speech in Canada and many European Countries."

Hate Bill: Worse Than We Imagined

Most persons who are concerned about imminent passage of the federal "anti-hate" bill don't realize that S. 1105 in the Senate and H.R. 1592 in the House are actually amendments to a federal hate law passed in 1969. During the height of the civil rights movement, "Title 18, U.S.C., Sec. 245" stipulated that no one could verbally "…attempt to…intimidate" another person (chiefly black) away from enjoyment of their federally protected right to equal employment, public services, housing, voting rights, jury privileges, etc. If the government finds such verbal "intimidation" in a state and state officials are not enforcing these guarantees, the federal government can invade states' rights in local law enforcement, upholding Title 18.

Title 18 is considered a "hate crimes" law because it criminalizes bias-motivated, verbal attempts to "intimidate" blacks by persuading them that they are intellectually, hygienically, or morally inferior -- unfit to eat at the same lunch counter, attend the same church, work in the same business, get the same education, live in the same apartment complex, or serve on the same jury with whites.

New Teeth for 60's Hate Crimes Law

Fast forward from 1969 to 2007. Instead of guaranteeing such protection just for religion, race and gender, the present hate bill grants it to homosexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals. If the House passes H.R. 1592 this week, it will include not just the language of the present bills posted at the government website but also that of Title 18, making it federally indictable to "…attempt to…intimidate" a homosexual from believing that he (even if he has AIDS or hepatitis) has the right to work in a restaurant, be employed as a police officer or summer camp counselor, or has equal rights to housing and employment anywhere he wishes.

A pastor, Christian broadcaster or publisher who verbally attempts to "intimidate" homosexuals by describing homosexuality as an abomination (Lev. 18:22) are thus high-profile targets for indictment under this legislation.

The federal hate bill, incorporating Title 18, is clearly much more than an attempt to put down violent hate crimes in the states. It is a speech crime bill that, if passed, could immediately outlaw not only discrimination against homosexuals in employment or housing but also public criticism of sodomy.

Homosexuals Can Become Clergy

The Civil Rights Act of 1965 made it a federal crime for a church to discriminate against a black by refusing to hire him in any position, including clergy, because of the color of his skin. The hate bill now before Congress could make it the same crime for a church to refuse to hire, even as clergy, a homosexual because of his "sexual orientation."

The reason Title 18 has been ineffective from 1969 as a federal tool of hate crimes law enforcement is because the government had to prove that a bias crime in a state violated a federally protected right. Such cases were few and far between. The present expanded hate bill places no such restrictions upon the government, entitling a federal hate crimes Gestapo to intervene in states' rights in law enforcement anytime it pleases.