Congressional Hate Crime Bill And Don't Ask Don't Tell
U.S. President Barack Obama
Congress is moving to pass a hate crime bill that would protect gays in America. However, the contents of the gay rights bill is causing much controversy among the American public, as is Obama's statements on "Don't Ask Don't Tell" regarding gays serving in the military.
There is an aspect of the bill that covers hate crimes of violence against gays. Any rational, civil person should not want violence against any member or segment of society.
However, I am not for regulating the public’s speech towards any group, save for death threats and threats of violence. Many have stated, the bill shall indeed do just that, providing jail time for those that make comments or jokes about gays that are deemed offensive.
I find this aspect of the bill ironic and unconstitutional, as the law of the land guarantees free speech. Not to mention, many gays in Hollywood are very abusive and disdainful of straight people, especially Christians, characterizing us in the worst terms possible for their own amusement. This is an undeniable fact.
During a commercial, I saw a clip of the show "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" and the bleach blonde, homosexual reality TV star stated with a look of total disdain and repulsion, the most offensive, crude, crass statement about a heterosexual male’s sofa being “caked" in vagina hair (and that's the clean version of what he said).
I found his statement vulgar and vile, yet because he is gay, in Hollywood, it was somehow deemed acceptable speech for basic cable television. Well, it wasn't, but the Constitution protects it. Which brings me to my point, once again, FREE SPEECH.
However, had a straight woman said the same thing about a gay man and his homosexual partner and their sofa, with the same look of complete disgust on her face as the aforementioned did, gays would have been screaming for her head and complaining in the press. It would have been labeled hate speech.
Then, there was the incident with gay designer Issac Mizrahi mockingly groping the breasts of actress Scarlett Johanssen at an awards show, aired during family viewing hours. If a straight woman had done that to a gay man, while mocking his manhood, homosexuals would have complained and labeled it a hate crime.
There’s a blatant double standard. Hollywood is particularly nasty, vile and vindictive towards Christians, as the Bible peacefully states, homosexuality is a sin that a person must repent of to gain God's forgiveness.
As a Christian, I have experienced this first hand, where mean, hateful homosexuals in Hollywood commissioned all sorts of sick, depraved conduct against me, when I hadn’t done anything to them. They attacked me for simply existing. That's the kind of hatred they are working under.
Unprovoked, they did the most evil, unconscionable, inhumane things, when I did nothing to them and do not know them from Adam.
How do you justify commissioning harassment, assault, burglaries, criminal invasion of privacy, stalking and outright grand theft larceny against an innocent person, while screaming to the world that you are victims of society as gays. It looks hypocritical and bad. Very, very bad.
Human rights is not a one way street. It’s a message many gays in Hollywood refuse to learn and they are the disgraceful, abusive spokespeople for the gay movement.
Because you are gay and deem yourself a victim that is discriminated against, does not give you the right to harass, antagonize, bully, rob and destroy other people. There is no justification for such inexcusable conduct.
Congress acts to extend hate crimes to cover gays
Oct 8, 5:33 PM (ET) WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted Thursday to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation, significantly expanding the hate crimes law enacted in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968.
With expected passage by the Senate, federal prosecutors will for the first time be able to intervene in cases of violence perpetrated against gays.
Civil rights groups and their Democratic allies have been trying for more than a decade to broaden the reach of hate crimes law. This time it appears they will succeed. The measure is attached to a must-pass $680 billion defense policy bill and President Barack Obama - unlike President George W. Bush - is a strong supporter. The House passed the defense bill 281-146, with 15 Democrats and 131 Republicans in opposition.
"It's a very exciting day for us here in the Capitol," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., saying hate crimes legislation was on her agenda when she first entered Congress 22 years ago...
The late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was a longtime advocate of the legislation.
Many Republicans, normally stalwart supporters of defense bills, voted against it because of the addition of what they referred to as "thought crimes" legislation.
"This is radical social policy that is being put on the defense authorization bill, on the backs of our soldiers, because they probably can't pass it on its own," House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio said.
GOP opponents were not assuaged by late changes in the bill to strengthen protections for religious speech and association - critics argued that pastors expressing beliefs about homosexuality could be prosecuted if their sermons were connected to later acts of violence against gays...
The defense bill is H.R. 2647.
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