Chuck Colson has this to say about HR 1592 the Democrat sponsored proposed bill before the House entitled “the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act.”
Clearly, the intent of this law is not to prevent crime, but to shut down freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of thought. Its passage would strike at the very heart of our democracy.
He is 100% correct. Most troubling is that the law does not define “sexual orientation,” leaving wide-open the definition of the term.
A list of some “sexual orientations” include:
Coprophilia – sexual arousal associated with feces
Exhibitionism – the act of exposing one’s genitals to an unwilling observer to obtain sexual gratification
Frotteurism – approaching an unknown woman from the rear and pressing or rubbing the penis against her buttocks
Incest – sex with a sibling or parent
Kleptophilia – obtaining sexual excitement from stealing
Necrophilia – sexual arousal and/or activity with a corpse
Pederasty – Sex between an adult and a child, usually an adult male and a male child.
Pedophilia – Sexual contact between an adult and a child
Bisexual Pedophilia – term used for an adult who derives sexual gratification from sexual contact with a child without regard to the sex of the child
Sexual masochism – obtaining sexual gratification by being subjected to pain or humiliation
Sexual sadism – the intentional infliction of pain or humiliation on another person in order to achieve sexual excitement
Toucherism – characterized by a strong desire to touch the breast or genitals of an unknown woman without her consent; often occurs in conjunction with other paraphilia
Transvestite – a person who is sexually stimulated or gratified by wearing the clothes of the other gender
Urophilia – sexual arousal associated with urine
Zoophilia/Bestiality – engaging in sexual activity with animals
entire list here
So, this proposal which has already been endorsed by a majority of Democrats (137 sponsors to date) would essentially criminalize thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. It would also violate religious liberty and freedom of speech.
If this bill were to become federal law, it would be a federal crime for a Christian Pastor to describe homosexuality as an abomination by quoting the Bible (Lev 18:22).
Under this bill it would be illegal for a Chrurch, Mosque, or Synangogue to discriminate based on the applicant’s sexual “orientation.” If, for example, the applicant for a pastoral position at a church were a cross-dresser or Pedophile, it would be a federal crime to “discriminate” against that person based on their “sexual orientation.”
The proposal would make it a federally indictable crime to reject a job applicant seeking employment in a restaurant if he had AIDs or hepatitis.
The proposal would make it a federal crime to deny a self-described necropheliac from becoming a scout master.
This legislation is the most insane piece of legislation I have ever read. It is nothing more than a way to crimminalize free speech and religious beliefs especially Christian religious beliefs.
All people concerned about the preservation of the 1st Amendment should emphatically reject this Orwellian Democrat sponsored legislation.