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| | The House of Representatives passed a hate crime bill on April 29, 2009, in order to give special protection to homosexual behavior, and to intimidate Bible-based criticism of it.<ref>http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE53S8IM20090429</ref> "This so-called 'hate crimes' bill will be used to lay the legal foundation and framework to investigate, prosecute, and persecute pastors, business owners, Bible teachers, Sunday School teachers, youth pastors -- you name it -- or anyone else whose actions are based upon and reflect the truth found in the Bible."<ref>http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=494798</ref> | | The House of Representatives passed a hate crime bill on April 29, 2009, in order to give special protection to homosexual behavior, and to intimidate Bible-based criticism of it.<ref>http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE53S8IM20090429</ref> "This so-called 'hate crimes' bill will be used to lay the legal foundation and framework to investigate, prosecute, and persecute pastors, business owners, Bible teachers, Sunday School teachers, youth pastors -- you name it -- or anyone else whose actions are based upon and reflect the truth found in the Bible."<ref>http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=494798</ref> |
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| − | At least nine Western countries have made it a crime<ref>Revisionists in France and Germany have been heavily fined for their views" (Weber). Other countries that have different laws against Holocaust denial include Belgium, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, Canada, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. [http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/Research/VariousPapers/MonizDeniers034.htm Holocaust Denial] </ref>
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| | ==Free speech and the Homosexual Agenda== | | ==Free speech and the Homosexual Agenda== |
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| | ==Criminalizing the Gospel== | | ==Criminalizing the Gospel== |
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| − | Art Moore posted this at World Net Daily: | + | Art Moore posted this at WorldNet Daily: |
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| | :"We don't want to promote hatred against anyone and are opposed to violence for whatever reason," said Bruce Clemenger, head of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada's Centre for Faith and Public Life. "Our concern, though is that ... courts have not distinguished between the identity of the person and the activity. So sexual orientation refers to both the sexual disposition as well as the activity." | | :"We don't want to promote hatred against anyone and are opposed to violence for whatever reason," said Bruce Clemenger, head of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada's Centre for Faith and Public Life. "Our concern, though is that ... courts have not distinguished between the identity of the person and the activity. So sexual orientation refers to both the sexual disposition as well as the activity." |
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| | What this means is the [[gay rights]] activists want the government to agree with their primary claim, i.e., that homosexuality is a matter of '''identity''' - not a behavior, and certainly not a matter of choice. | | What this means is the [[gay rights]] activists want the government to agree with their primary claim, i.e., that homosexuality is a matter of '''identity''' - not a behavior, and certainly not a matter of choice. |
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| | + | At least nine Western countries have made it a crime<ref>Revisionists in France and Germany have been heavily fined for their views" (Weber). Other countries that have different laws against Holocaust denial include Belgium, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, Canada, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. [http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/Research/VariousPapers/MonizDeniers034.htm Holocaust Denial] </ref> |
| | + | to deny the historical reality of the Nazi [[Holocaust]] (the genocide of 6 million Jews and 5 million others). The idea is that it is "hateful" to the survivors and to the relatives of the victims to pretend that this painful episode never occurred. |
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| | + | Some people argue that being Jewish is a matter of race and thus unchangeable, and that being homosexual is likewise immutable. On these grounds they go on to assert that criticizing a person for being homosexual is just as "hateful" as denying the Holocaust. A serious movement has begun to brand criticism of homosexuality as [[hate speech]] and thus to outlaw it. It is succeeding in liberal countries of Europe and has spread to the United States. |
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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |
| | *[[H.R. 1592: Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007]] | | *[[H.R. 1592: Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007]] |
| | + | *[[Matthew Shepard]] |
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| | ==References== | | ==References== |