President Barack Obama pledge to the largest homosexual organization in America?
Call
your senators today and let them know that their vote on "hate crimes"
will affect your support when they stand for re-election.
October 12, 2009 -
President Obama: "I can announce after more than a decade, this (hate crimes) bill is set to pass and I will sign it into law."
The president spoke these words last Saturday night to the largest homosexual advocacy organization in the country. As
even the president acknowledges, with your help we have successfully
beaten back attempts to pass so-called "hate crimes" legislation since
the 1990s. However, as the president points out, this legislation is now closer to becoming law than it ever has been.
The House passed this bill last Thursday, and our last chance to stop
this dangerous bill is when your senators vote on it this week. Here's what wrong with the "hate crimes" bill:
It
criminalizes thought. For the first time in American history, criminal
penalties are being attached to thoughts, not actions. Perpetrators
will receive extra punishment not for what they did but for what they
were thinking when they did it.
It
endangers freedom of religion and speech. Everywhere in the world "hate
crimes" laws have gone into effect, they have quickly been used to
harass, intimidate, silence and punish people of faith. Your pastor
could go to jail if even a tenuous link could be established between a
sermon on homosexuality and some act of violence.
It
destroys the American principle of equality under the law. It creates a
judicial caste system, in which some victims get more legal protection
than others. It actively discriminates against heterosexuals by giving
them less protection in law than victims who engage in non-normative
sexual behaviors.
In a devious maneuver by Democrats, it's attached to a Defense Appropriations bill. Our military deserves a stand-alone vote on funding.
To which I responded:To all readers ...
I'm not sure what I'm more offended by, having received this email ...
the narrow-minded scope of it or the thought that others would read and
agree. Hundreds of years ago, people were put to death for not
converting to a certain religion and non-conformity. The stories
abound. Have we really moved further past those times?
What on earth did you expect out of the first black president BUT to
take on hate crimes towards minorities? And btw, what the hell is
"non-normative"?
Do you mean those who do not live what you consider a
normal 'wife-kids-white-picket-fence'- type lifestyle? Maybe those who
do not exclusively utilize the act of sex for no other reason than
procreation, utilizing a time-honored missionary position? Or do you
mean people who simply do not conform to your religious beliefs?
Re-read the third sentence now. Are you starting to recognize a
pattern? I am definitely not gay nor does the thought appeal to me in
any way. But where or how my neighbor chooses to find happiness is
really no cause for my concern as long as he/she does so without
harming others. I encourage and bless their courage and strength.
This
type of extreme Conservatism
just turns my stomach ten times as much as someone who is comfortable
with their own identity even if it idoes differ from mine. I hope Obama
signs it into law so we can take another step further away from this
enduring, needless, and extremely unproductive discrimination/bias.
Here's a thought ... where there is no hate, there's no hate crime.
Therefore there would be no need for legislation. The rest is
superfluous.
Period, end of story.
Seems to me that homosexuality is nowhere near the root of the problem,
yet simply one example of the real core issue that advocacy and
agreement of this email seems to exemplify. One word, four letters ....
.
Thank goodness we caught this shining example of hypocrisy in it's infancy this morning. If I knew the person who created the "Delete" button on my computer, I
might even give that man or woman a kiss on the cheek today.
My final thoughts ... "LIVE AND LET LIVE".
Or in the exact words I learned growing up as a Catholic going to church every sunday:
"DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU".
Todd