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A '''"hate crime"''' is an action held to involve the illicit expression of hatred to the detriment of another person. Such a wide definition combines religious, ethnic or lifestyle persecution.   

A '''"hate crime"''' is an action held to involve the illicit expression of hatred to the detriment of another person. Such a wide definition combines religious, ethnic or lifestyle persecution.   

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 bill has led many to be fearful. To quote OneNewsNow "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>

==Free speech and the Homosexual Agenda==

==Free speech and the Homosexual Agenda==