Silence of the Lambs – - Part 5,432
Speak of Sin; Land in Jail
Welcome to Post Christian America
A Christian evangelist who was once arrested, incarcerated, and charged under Pennsylvania’s hate crimes law says the federal hate crimes bill that has been signed into law by President Obama is the most dangerous laws in the history of the United States.
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which was signed into law yesterday, creates additional penalties for violent crimes motivated by the victim’s “actual or perceived” gender, “gender identity,” sexual orientation, or disability.
Michael Marcavage, director of Philadelphia-based Repent America, was one of 11 Christians who tossed into jail and charged with a hate crime for carrying Bible verse banners and preaching at a 2004 homosexual pride event in Philadelphia.
The charges were later dismissed — and in 2008, the state’s Supreme Court ruled the law had been passed illegally by the Pennsylvania legislature.
Mr. Marcavage maintains the new federal hate crimes law is yet another move by the federal government to “silence Christians.”
The Christian activist says the new legislation is ungodly because it “seeks to shut down the gospel of Jesus Christ”; unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection guarantee of the 14th Amendment; and unnecessary because it replicates existing laws that punish violent crimes.
“What this bill does is [seek] to shut down those who dare to speak against the sin of homosexuality with the hope and freedom that is found in Jesus Christ,” Mr. Marcavage contends
This legislation will have no effect on me or my income, so I don’t care. Nobody cares.
You are wasting your time with this crap.
Just because you don’t care doesn’t mean others don’t.
As a Christian, I care.
As a member of the United States Army, I care.
I fight to defend the freedom of ALL who live in this great land. Not just some who worry about their income. I don’t care if you’re straight, gay or somewhere in between. If you’re an American, you’re entitled to the pursuit of happiness as long as you are not breaking FEDERAL law. Scripture law is aside from that and that is why we have the separation between church and state.
I care when people like Matthew Shepard are tortured and murdered simply because their sexual preference is different than the mainstream. But I hate it even more when someone uses that to create a new law that goes beyond reasonable application and thereby restricting people’s religious freedom of expression. It’s a heinous misuse of political power and it desecrates everything that we fight for.
Maybe if the President spent a little less time trying to figure out how to chip away at our freedom and a little more time making a decision to support our troops in Afghanistan, American soldiers might be able to complete their mission successfully. Oh wait. What was I thinking? Obama doesn’t want us to succeed, does he? Well then, he should give us the troops so he has something else he can apologize for around the world.
I spent 30 years in the military. What we’re doing to ourselves as a society and what the current President is doing to us politically just makes me wonder what I did it all for. I just hope we can survive this jackass with freedom intact.
The Law is to protect the wicked. No one is a Homosexual. It is just a person’s repressed appetite. If they can protect themselves from restraint, what delights await them. Your children will become their playground. This is not a criticism of the people, but what addiction ends up doing to them.