Christians Muzzled by New Legislation
October 27, 2009 by Roberto Santiago
Filed under Religion
Christians Muzzled by New Legislation
The Silence of the Lambs – – Obama Style
Farewell, Free Speech – – Part 991
by Dr. Paul L. Williams
So much for free speech and 1st Amendment rights.
A hate crimes bill, which was passed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday and sent to President Obama for his signature, will serve to muzzle Christian writers, preachers, and teachers who still possess the temerity to advocate Biblical values.
Mr. Obama has made a pledge to the gay and lesbian community that the bill will become law before the end of October.
Matt Barber, an attorney for Liberty Counsel, says that the President desires to “throw a bone to homosexual activists because they have been breathing down his neck…and this is a way to hold them off.”
Attorney Barber believes that the legislation will result in the arrests of anyone who publicly decries alternative lifestyles. “Unfortunately, it places Christians — people of faith, people who have traditional values relative to sexual immorality…in an untenable position,” he maintains
The Liberty Counsel attorney notes that several years ago, a similar law in Pennsylvania resulted in the arrest of 11 Christians who were presenting the gospel at a Philadelphia homosexual rally. He insists that the federal bill “will chill religious liberty and free speech — and that is its intended purpose, not to protect anybody from hate crimes.”
And as for pastors? “There is a very weak exemption in [the bill] which is totally illusory, and a religious exemption is not going to protect pastors,” responds Mr. Barber. “Renegade prosecutors and politically correct leftists in positions of authority can subjectively determine what is or is not a hate crime.”
Once this determination is made, according to Mr. Barber, Christians may face extended time in jail cells for condemning homosexuality as sin and gays and lesbians as sexual deviants.
Related Reading:
- Christians Beware; 10 years in Sing Sing Soon to Come.
- “Most Dangerous Law” Signed by Obama
- When is enough, enough, part 2
- First Michigan, now Florida, what’s next?
- Continued Attacks on Christian and Family Values by Obama
- The Indoctrination of our Youth
- ELCA Throws Out The Bible
(saw the following on the web)
Go ahead, Mr. President. Sign the “hate” bill. By doing so you will help to fulfill the predicted repeat of the “days of Lot” in Luke 17 – days which today seem anxious to outperform their ancient counterparts! You have already been helping to fulfill the predicted repeat of the “days of Noah” in the same chapter – that is, violence towards the unborn which presently is matching, if not surpassing, the violence that forced God in Genesis 6 to announce that He would soon destroy everyone except Noah and his family. Mr. President, by helping to fulfill both of the above “days” you will discover that God has His Almighty veto over what you say and do!