Rob Boston, writing at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, takes the radical religious right to task for its false-witness-bearing against pending legislation that would include sexual orientation in a hate crimes bill that is expected to be debated in Congress in the next week or so:
Pastors In Prison?: Religious Right Spreads Lies About Hate Crimes Bill
Legislation that would target hate crimes is expected to start moving in Congress soon. The Religious Right is going bananas.
The legislation, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (H.R. 1913), is intended to do a few key things: It would allow the U.S. Justice Department to offer assistance when a crime that results in death or serious injury is committed against any American because of the victim’s race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
Cue the lying liars and their lies:
Nevertheless, here’s what the Family Research Council told pastors in a recent bulletin: “Let’s say you preach from Genesis 19 or Romans 1, referencing the homosexual agenda or lifestyle. Your sermon could be heard by an individual who applies it in a way prohibited by a hate crimes law. Not only would the offender be prosecuted under this law, but you could also be prosecuted for conspiracy. Consequently, hate crimes laws would radically impact our freedom of speech as Christians.”
Wrong.
As Becky Dansky, federal legislative director for the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, told the Washington Blade, such claims by the Religious Right are “completely inaccurate, unless their priest or reverend or religious leader is physically assaulting someone based on their sexual orientation while they’re giving that sermon.”
Yet Religious Right leaders keep playing the “your-pastor-will-go-to-jail” card.
“An offended homosexual could accuse a pastor, Sunday School teacher or broadcaster of causing emotional injury simply by expressing the Biblical view that homosexuality is sinful,” blares the Rev. Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association in an e-mail alert.
Over at the Traditional Values Coalition, Andrea Lafferty warns, “Your pastor could be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit a hate crime if it passes and become law. This so-called ‘hate crimes’ bill will be used to lay the legal foundation and framework to investigate, prosecute, and persecute pastors, business owners, Bible teachers, Sunday School teachers, youth pastors – you name it – or anyone else whose actions are based upon and reflect the truth found in the Bible.”
It doesn’t matter to these so-called Christians that, under their own belief system, telling bald-faced lies will land them in a lake of fire for all eternity, because as Rob Boston points out, “Truth long ago became irrelevant to that gang.”
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One Comment so far. Comments are closed.Lying for the Lord (Google it, I didn’t make it up) is not only acceptable to them, it’s downright commendable–particularly if they’re fighting Teh Homosexual Agenda. What amazes me is that they’re shocked when people question their honesty. I don’t believe word one that comes out of those hypocritical, lying thugs. They wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked them upside the head with a two-by-four.