"Arrest Gramma" bill begins debate

From WorldNetDaily...

Debate is to begin today in a congressional subcommittee on a federal "hate speech" proposal similar to a state law that already has been used to send grandmothers to jail for their "crime" of sharing the Gospel of Jesus on a Philadelphia public sidewalk.

"This is the most dangerous bill in America," said Janet Folger, a WND columnist and the president of Faith2Action.

The proposal, on its face, purports to create bans on "hate crimes," but Rev. Louis Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition said it more accurately is "an attempt by the ultra liberals and the homosexuals to force Americans to accept homosexuality and gender disturbance as equal to God's Created Order of heterosexuality."...

"This bill says that hordes of homosexuals are being forced to flee their home states because they are routinely denied access to goods, services and employment," he said. "This explains the mystery of the crowded highways and airports in San Francisco and New York. … The reasons for the bill are completely unsupported."

 What others are saying...

“This bill will eventually enforce the ADL definition that hate equals bias against federally protected groups. Homosexuals, Jews, Muslims, etc... would receive special federal protection in violation of the 14th amendment.” — Rev. Ted Pike, National Prayer Network

“H.R. 254 is nothing more than an attempt to provide federal prosecutors with the ammunition to police our thoughts, which will ultimately lead to the death of the First Amendment. This bill is unnecessary, unconstitutional, and simply un-American. Christians must pray and respond to this emergency situation by urging their representatives to vote against this dangerous bill,” — Michael Marcavage Repent America.

Posted by Danny Carlton at April 17, 2007 5:52 AM