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Your Constitutional Freedom of Religious Speech is Attacked.

Lee Tyler
Posted Jun 18, 2009 9:56 AM
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Your Constitutional Freedom of Religious Speech is Attacked.
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The morality of your family, children and church are under attack.
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The "faith of your fathers/ancestors" is under heavy attack.
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The U.S. Senate Democrats support hate crimes legislation that threatens your freedom of religion and religious speech and gives special rights to a few based only on their sexual conduct. Under the law they support, Jewish Rabbis, Catholic priests and Christian pastors and lay ministers can be convicted of a felony and go to jail for simply reading out loud from the Bible what the Bible says about "Biastophilia (assault and rape); Changophilia (girls morphing during sexual intercourse), Erotic asphyxia (asphyxia of oneself or others), Erotophonophilia (murder), Exhibitionism (exposing oneself sexually to others; variantly with or without their consent), Hebephilia (sex with pubescent children), Infantophilia (sex with children five years old or younger), Necrophilia (sex with corpses, dead people), Nepiophilia (sex with infants), Raptophilia (committing rape), Telephone scatologia, Telephonicophilia (obscene phone calls, particularly to strangers), Vorarephilia (eating or being eaten by others; usually swallowed whole, in one piece), and Ephebophilia (Sexual attraction towards individuals in mid- to late adolescence, typically ages 15–19)"? [ http://en.wikipedia.o...] The Democrats, including Ted Kennedy and Obama have supported making these "philias" protected classes, protected against "hate speech", which for them includes Christians declaring publicly what the Bible says about these sex sins.
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The APA [American Psychiatric Association] has a list of 547 different "paraphilias" that would be protected by members of Congress under the "hate crimes" bill. All "sexual orientations" are protected by this law that protects all "sexual orientations" of all Americans, no matter what sex acts their orientation involves.* Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., a "hate crimes" supporter, agreed, admitting that the bill would protect all 547 forms of sexual deviancy listed by the APA. Here's what Hastings said on the floor of the U.S. House itself:
"This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these 'Philias' and fetishes and 'ism's' that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule…"
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[Footnote: * http://www.washington... http://www.wnd.com/in... http://www.rightmarch...]
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Instead of committee hearings and open debate, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is reportedly rushing this measure forward by having it attached to unrelated legislation.
Sen. Reid and others want to shield this dangerous bill from debate and scrutiny. They don’t want the public to know that this bill mandates greater criminal penalties for crimes against people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, or who engage in a broad range of other sexual aberrations. It creates a two-tiered system of justice in which some, including pedophiles, are more equal than Christians, Jews and Moslems.
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But that’s where we come in.
Please call or email your senators and let them know you oppose S.909, the "Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act." The Senate switchboard is (202) 224-3121 or (202) 225-3121. To identify your senators, click here and then choose your state near the top. (Talking Points are listed below for your convenience.)
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Don’t let homosexual and immoral pressure groups railroad into the law of the land this legalization and endorsement of what the Bible declares to be immorality
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Together, let’s stop this endorsement of behaviors that the Bible says causes people to not " inherit the Kingdom of God." (1 Cor 6:9,10); to become the objects of the "wrath of God" (Eph 5:4); and spend eternity "in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone" (Rev 21:8). Please call or email your senators now—and then forward this email to 10 or 20 friends!<Br>
Sincerely in Christ,
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An Old Servant
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Talking Points
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The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act (S909):
Is an Assault on Liberty of Conscience. In free countries, criminal acts are punished—not beliefs or views. The proposed hate crimes bill would result in two convictions—one for the criminal act, and another for the beliefs or thoughts behind it. This is a road to "thought crime" tyranny that is unfolding already in Europe and Canada.
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Is Not Needed. Every state legal code already protects men and women, whatever their "actual or perceived … sexual orientation," against criminal assault. There is no hate-crime "epidemic" in America. The FBI reports that so-called hate crimes, which are difficult to identify because only God can know the human heart, are a tiny fraction of all crimes.
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Puts Pastors At Risk For Prosecution. Anyone, including pastors, can be accused of creating a "climate of hate" that leads to violence—merely for speaking biblical truth. Under Pennsylvania’s hate crimes law, 11 Christians were arrested and jailed in 2004 for preaching the gospel at a Philadelphia homosexual street festival. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a former judge, said that under this federal bill, clergymen and others could be charged with encouraging or inducing a "hate crime" if they preach against homosexuality.

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