by Allie Martin and Jody Brown
OneNewsNow.com
The president of the Virginia-based Family Policy Network (FPN) says Christians need to know the real agenda behind proposed hate crimes legislation — and must stand against it.
On Monday, a coalition of liberal-leaning groups — the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign, the National Black Justice Coalition, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights — took out a full-page ad in USA Today supporting hate crimes legislation. The ad states that pastors have nothing to fear from H.R. 1592, which is known as the “Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.”
Section 8 of the bill states it will not prohibit free-speech or free-exercise activities protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. But it does call for more intense prosecution and greater penalties for crimes committed against certain classes of people, including homosexuals.
http://familypolicy.net/us/ president Joe Glover contends homosexual activists would use the bill as a tool to silence Christians. According to Glover’s group, those activists — in their efforts to silence opposition to homosexuality and the perceived threat of crimes against those who, in Glover’s words, “commit same-sex immorality with one another” — ignore “the true threat” to a homosexual’s safety: other homosexuals.”If homosexual activists were really concerned about what’s driving so many [practicing homosexuals to an early grave, they would either address the deadly health consequences associated with their lifestyle,” says the FPN leader; “or number two, they would address the fact that you’re 244 percent more likely to be hurt and murdered by another homosexual than you are by someone who is straight.”
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