HATE LAWS FLOG ANOTHER CHRISTIAN
By Harmony Grant
5 Dec 07
Telling the truth is an illegal act in Canada . It’s
worse if you’re a Christian. A pastor in Alberta , Rev. Stephen
Boissoin, is the latest to make this chilling discovery.
Boissoin has
been charged by a human rights panel with violating Canada
's "hate crime" law, for words he wrote to a newspaper back
in 2002, when he was executive director of the Concerned Christian
Coalition. His letter said "war has been declared" against
the "homosexual machine."
I wonder which of Boissoin’s words violated the Canadian
human rights law. Which of his words were “likely to expose
homosexuals to hatred or contempt because of their sexual preference?” Maybe
it was the part where he called their militant agenda “a machine.” That
might be seen as flattery and certainly isn’t a lie.
In 1977, Quebec became the first jurisdiction in the world to prohibit
private or public “discrimination” based on sexual orientation.
In 1988, the first Canadian Member of Parliament “came out” to
media. Also in 1988, a Canadian church first allowed ordination of
openly practicing homosexuals. In 2005, Canada became the fourth
country worldwide to federally sanction marriage between people of
the same gender. Canadian public school curricula are currently being
revised with “LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] topics.” (Maybe
while they’re at it they should include topics about boys who
prefer large breasts or girls who like to be handcuffed during sex.
Or maybe they should quit bringing sexuality into grade
school.)
So. A machine? Fueled by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith with its anti-Christian “hate crimes” laws,
the Canadian homosexual movement is practically bionic. A 2000 Supreme
Court decision ruled
that homosexuals’ publications are federally protected free
speech, even if they are sexually explicit or obscene.
Get this straight: If my homosexual neighbor prints a zine of photos
of naked men having anal sex and urinating on each other, that’s
protected speech. But I could be jailed if I distribute the same
prints labeled with, say, Romans 1:27 (“In the same way the
men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed
with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other
men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion”).
The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith always claims
that hate crime laws won’t stifle freedom of speech or religion.
What a joke. They openly brag about
their role as creators of “anti-hate” laws On their
website you can even view their “model
hate crime legislation,” which offers “The ADL Approach” to
dealing with hatred, bigotry and racism. Sounds so noble.
But ADL isn’t concerned with preventing true violent crime
(which is already against the law, hence the word “crime”).
It also isn’t concerned about promoting true health in society,
which is fundamentally based on families and healthy sexuality. Instead,
ADL—a Jewish fraternal civil liberties organization—seeks
to strip Christianity from public life and criminalize the expression
of Christian morality (especially that of salvation through Christ
alone).
In his excellent essay, “Is
Sex Meaningless?”, Joel Hilliker writes that hate crime
laws have made it incredibly easy for Christians to be “perceived” by
the court as breaking the law. “Illegal discrimination now
includes anything “perceived” as different treatment
because of behavior “perceived” as not stereotypically
male or female,” says Hilliker. “It includes anything
that might suggest that a child living with biological Dad and
Mom is advantaged over someone living with a single homosexual
man or woman who has multiple partners. It could include a business
treating a cross-dressing job applicant different from anyone else.
It could include a reference to family in a school textbook that
fails to mention it’s just fine if it involves a homosexual
couple. You can be sure that zealous lawyers are itching to test
the new laws by putting such “crimes” on trial.”
ADL is not concerned about bias in general—certainly not
against Christians or Christians’ free expression of their
faith! In The Conservative Voice, Bonnie Alba points out that Christmas
is a time of numerous “hate
crimes against Christians” when Christian symbols and public
expression are increasingly not allowed. You may remember that last
Christmas a rabbi complained about Christmas trees at the Seattle
airport. To avoid any fuss this year, airport officials have banned
any recognition that there even is such a thing as Christmas! No
Christmas trees, carols or stars.
In one Michigan school district, a list of politically incorrect
words is forbidden. They include Santa, Christmas, and nativity.
In case anyone has questions about what to disallow, the ADL has
provided a helpful “December Dilemma” guide to make sure
Christmas gets censored right out of public view. Mention of our
Maker’s birth, here to redeem us, might make some people uncomfortable!
Heaven forbid. (See, ADL's
'December Dilemma')
So would I be speaking hate to say the militant pro-homosexual
and “anti-hate” ADL is a machine efficiently stripping
Christian faith and morals from North America ? No, not hate. Just
the facts.
Harmony
Grant writes and edits for the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative
watch dog organization.
Let the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith teach you how they
have saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians: http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
Learn how ADL took away free speech in Canada and wants to steal
it now in the U.S. Congress. Watch Rev. Ted Pike's Hate
Laws: Making Criminals of Christians at video.google.com. Purchase
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