Monday, April 27, 2009
Hate Crimes Bill
The House and Senate are poised to pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. It is HR 1913. This bill adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of attributes that qualify for "hate crime" penalties. It seems very innocuous, but in other countries this has lead to mere words being hate crimes. If this passes, it will be a great challenge for the church. Will our leaders be willing to go to jail for speaking the truth about homosexuality? The bill could be law in as little as two weeks. I also think that hate crimes laws are poor legislation because they give penalties for thoughts. Other than self defense, does the reason for the crime really matter? If you hurt or kill someone, you deserve to be punished. And there are already libel and slander laws for written and spoken offenses. True justice is applying the law the same regardless of station, race, gender, etc. It is unjust for certain people to be counted as more important or valuable before the law.
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The so called "hate crimes" bill has been pushed for a number of years now. It is so obviously a bill pushed by the "political correct" ideas of the Left and has especially been promoted by the homosexual movement. It gives special exalted "rights" to homosexuals and makes them a privileged class. Realistically, there are not enough votes to block its passage; not even enough votes probably to negate some of its worse features.
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