Religious Speech at Risk
By David Aikman
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would expand the definition of a "hate crime" beyond the existing definition of a crime committed because of race, religion, or national origin. The new definition will include "sexual orientation."
Now every reasonable person agrees that homosexuals deserve as much protection against mugging and other violence as any other member of society. The question is: do they deserve more?
The problem with adding "sexual orientation" is that anyone who criticizes homosexual behavior -- not orientation -- might be prosecuted for inciting a "hate crime." That includes pastors who quote what the Bible says about homosexual practice.
A new law that infringes on old rights -- religious freedom -- while claiming to protect new ones, is a bad law.
By David Aikman
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would expand the definition of a "hate crime" beyond the existing definition of a crime committed because of race, religion, or national origin. The new definition will include "sexual orientation."
Now every reasonable person agrees that homosexuals deserve as much protection against mugging and other violence as any other member of society. The question is: do they deserve more?
The problem with adding "sexual orientation" is that anyone who criticizes homosexual behavior -- not orientation -- might be prosecuted for inciting a "hate crime." That includes pastors who quote what the Bible says about homosexual practice.
A new law that infringes on old rights -- religious freedom -- while claiming to protect new ones, is a bad law.
posted by HeavyHanded at
9:26 AM
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[It's still legal - and always God-honoring - to air messages like the following. (See Ezek.3:18-19.) In light of government backing of raunchy behavior (such offenders were even executed in early America!), maybe the separation we really need is the "separation of raunch and state"!]
In Luke 17 in the New Testament, Jesus said that one of the big "signs" that will happen shortly before His return to earth as Judge will be a repeat of the "days of Lot" (see Genesis 19 for details). So gays are actually helping to fulfill this same worldwide "sign" (and making the Bible even more believable!) and thus hurrying up the return of the Judge! They are accomplishing what many preachers haven't accomplished! Gays couldn't have accomplished this by just coming out of closets into bedrooms. Instead, they invented new architecture - you know, closets opening on to Main Streets where little kids would be able to watch naked men having sex with each other at festivals in places like San Francisco (where their underground saint - San Andreas - may soon get a big jolt out of what's going on over his head!). Thanks, gays, for figuring out how to bring back our resurrected Saviour even quicker!
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