While most of the attention garnered by Congress lately is the pork-stuffed bill passed last night to immediately surrender to al-Qaeda and the Iraq insurgents, embolden our enemy in Iraq and Iran, and increase the risk to our troops, the Congress has also been busy with other matters of great importance to radical Soros leftists such as creating penalties for being a Christian; this even to the extent of punishing people for even thinking or feeling what is other than politically correct.
The Democrats' latest insane move is a fast-tracked plan to add special protections for homosexuals to federal law that according to opponents, would turn "thoughts, feelings, and beliefs" into criminal offenses that could put Christians in the bull's-eye:
"H.R. 1592 is a discriminatory measure that criminalizes thoughts, feelings, and beliefs [and] has the potential of interfering with religious liberty and freedom of speech," according to a white paper submitted by Glen Lavy, of the Alliance Defense Fund.Just how one enforces criminalized thoughts and emotions, or even speech for that matter since we supposedly live in a free and democratic (emphasis on the little "d"), is beyond me, however, I have little doubt that if any group is capable of trying to do so, it's the Soros Democrats."As James Jacobs and Kimberly Potter observed in Hate Crimes, Criminal Law, and Identity Politics, 'It would appear that the only additional purpose [for enhancing punishment of bias crimes] is to provide extra punishment based on the offender's politically incorrect opinions and viewpoints,'" said Lavy.
The proposal has been endorsed by majority Democrats on the committee, and already has 137 sponsors in the full House, making it possible it could be voted on in a matter of days or weeks.Bishop Harry Jackson, chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, said the plan, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Protection Act of 2007, is no more than "a surreptitious attempt by some in Congress to strip the nation of religious freedom and the ability to preach the gospel from our church pulpits."
"It will stamp all over our doctrine and practice of our faith," he said. "We believe what the Bible says. If you start there we've got a major problem."
Secondly, it unfairly restricts the expression of fair opinion by Christians, he told WND. "If anything, gays are getting undue deference awarded to them by the courts. That's why we have the same-sex marriage fight and that kind of thing."
Rev. Louis Sheldon, director of the Traditional Values Coalition, which represents 43,000 churches across the nation, told WND that the Democrats sponsoring and supporting the issue "have sold out to the homosexual agenda."
He said churches need to awaken to the dangers of having pastors, lay leaders, or even those sitting in the pews sent to jail for their biblical views. "When they [realize they] could go to jail for preaching the Word of God, they'll be concerned," he told WND. (Continue reading here ...)
Cross posted from Hyscience
