-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Gagnon [mailto:rgagnon@...]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:52 PM
To: gagnon@...
Subject: FW: "It's Now or Never for Christians"; EMERGENCY ALERT on "Thought
Crimes" Bill, HR 1592

Friends in the United States,

I have to agree that this is probably urgent stuff. Please consider calling
your Congressman and Senator early tomorrow.

The issue here is not whether one is for or against "hate." Of course
Christians should be against hate. But such a bill would eventually lead to
the prosecution of public persons and organizations that referred in to
homosexual behavior as abhorrent to God.

Remember that church leaders have a right in this country to espouse support
or opposition to particular legislation without infringing in church-state
barriers. See further my discussion of hate-crime legislation at
http://robgagnon.net/HateCrimesAmendment.htm

Blessings,

Rob Gagnon



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From: Americans For Truth [mailto:AmericansForTruth@...]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:53 PM
To: aft-update@...
Subject: "It's Now or Never for Christians"; EMERGENCY ALERT on "Thought
Crimes" Bill, HR 1592


'It's Now or Never for Christians'; EMERGENCY ALERT on 'Thought Crimes'
Bill, HR 1592
<http://americansfortruth.com/news/its-now-or-never-for-christians-emergency
-alert-on-thought-crimes-bill-hr-1592.html>

Dear Americans For Truth Reader,

How do you feel about the creation of a federal "anti-hate" bureaucracy
"regulating group defamation" and operating with all the efficiency of the
U.S. Post Office? This bureaucracy would regulate which speech is acceptable
and which is criminal because it might stimulate "harassment" and
"intimidation" against specified groups, including homosexuals? Passage of a
federal "hate crimes" law (HR 1592) would takes America one giant step
closer to that leftist goal.

Folks, the time to act is NOW to stop "Thought Crimes" ("Hate Crimes")
legislation in Congress. Please take this threat to our liberties very
seriously: with homosexual activists and lawyers already putting their
aberrant-sex-based "rights" above our freedoms of religion, conscience and
association, why would anyone believe them when they say they don't want to
censor "hurtful speech"? (And don't forget: most define mere opposition to
their agenda as "hate.")

TAKE ACTION: Call your member of the House and Senate immediately to
oppose H.R. 1592 and all "hate (thought) crimes" legislation! Call toll-free
1-877-851-6437 or toll 1-202-225-3121. There is much more information at
www.truthtellers.org <http://www.truthtellers.org/> and these other
pro-family websites: www.traditionalvalues.org
<http://www.traditionalvalues.org> ; www.frc.org <http://www.frc.org> , and
www.cwfa.org <http://www.cwfa.org> , and www.StopThoughtCrimesLaws.com
<http://www.StopThoughtCrimesLaws.com> . (Check out Janet Folger's "Hate
Crimes Discount Coupon" HERE
<http://www.stophatecrimesnow.com/images/Hate%20Crimes%20Coupon%202007.pdf>
.)

And Call President Bush: Did you know that according to pro-family
leaders in Washington, President Bush has NOT yet committed publicly to
vetoing "Thought Crimes" and ENDA (the pro-homosexual, pro-transgender
Employment Nondiscrimination Act) bills in Congress -- even as Bush has
promised to veto Embryonic Stem Cell research? Call the White House today
and urge President Bush to use his Bully Pulpit NOW against "Hate Crimes"
laws and ENDA: Call 202-456-1414 and ask for the comment line. To e-mail
the White House, click HERE <http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/> .

Ted Pike of the National Prayer Network <http://www.truthtellers.org> has
done yeoman's work warning religious people about the implications of
"thought crimes" legislation pushed by, among other leftist groups, the
Anti-Defamation League <http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp> , a
pro-homosexuality group whose agenda has strayed far beyond the noble
calling of fighting anti-Semitism. --Peter LaBarbera

Here's Pike's latest Alert:

EMERGENCY ALERT ! ! !

HATE BILL FAST FORWARDING TO VOTE IN HOUSE

By Rev. Ted Pike


The House version of the federal "anti-hate" bill, H.R. 1592, is
scheduled for a last hearing in the Subcommittee on Crime on Tuesday, April
24. The next day the entire House Judiciary Committee will consider the
marked-up version, making its own changes. If approved, the bill will be
sent forward to the House to be voted on, perhaps immediately.

Those who love free speech must respond NOW with unprecedented
calling, not only to the member of the House from your district but to as
many members of the House of Representatives as possible. All House members
are listed at www.truthtellers.org <http://www.truthtellers.org/> . The
toll-free number is 1-877-541-6437, or call toll 1-202-224-3121.

Tell them: "Please don't vote for any hate crimes legislation.
Hate laws have taken away free speech in Canada and many European
Countries."

Hate Bill: Worse Than We Imagined

Most persons who are concerned about imminent passage of the
federal "anti-hate" bill don't realize that S. 1105 in the Senate and H.R.
1592 in the House are actually amendments to a federal hate law passed in
1968. During the height of the civil rights movement, "Title 18, U.S.C.,
Sec. 245" stipulated that no one could verbally ".attempt to.intimidate"
another person (chiefly black) away from enjoyment of their federally
protected right to equal employment, public services, housing, voting
rights, jury privileges, etc. If the government finds such verbal
"intimidation" in a state and state officials are not enforcing these
guarantees, the federal government can invade states' rights in local law
enforcement, upholding Title 18.

Title 18 is considered a "hate crimes" law because it
criminalizes bias-motivated, verbal attempts to "intimidate" blacks by
persuading them that they are intellectually, hygienically, or morally
inferior -- unfit to eat at the same lunch counter, attend the same church,
work in the same business, get the same education, live in the same
apartment complex, or serve on the same jury with whites.

New Teeth for 60's Hate Crimes Law

Fast forward from 1968 to 2007. Instead of guaranteeing such
protection just for religion, race and gender, the present hate bill grants
it to homosexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals. If the House passes H.R.
1592 this week, it will include not just the language of the present bills
posted at the government website but also that of Title 18, making it
federally indictable to ".attempt to.intimidate" a homosexual from believing
that he (even if he has AIDS or hepatitis) has the right to work in a
restaurant, be employed as a police officer or summer camp counselor, or has
equal rights to housing and employment anywhere he wishes.

A pastor, Christian broadcaster or publisher who verbally
attempts to "intimidate" homosexuals by describing homosexuality as an
abomination (Lev. 18:22) are thus high-profile targets for indictment under
this legislation.

The federal hate bill, incorporating Title 18, is clearly much
more than an attempt to put down violent hate crimes in the states. It is a
speech crime bill that, if passed, could immediately outlaw not only
discrimination against homosexuals in employment or housing but also public
criticism of sodomy.

Homosexuals Can Become Clergy

The Civil Rights Act of 1965 made it a federal crime for a church
to discriminate against a black by refusing to hire him in any position,
including clergy, because of the color of his skin. The hate bill now before
Congress could make it the same crime for a church to refuse to hire, even
as clergy, a homosexual because of his "sexual orientation."

The reason Title 18 has been ineffective from 1968 as a federal
tool of hate crimes law enforcement is because the government had to prove
that a bias crime in a state violated a federally protected right. Such
cases were few and far between. The present expanded hate bill places no
such restrictions upon the government, entitling a federal hate crimes
Gestapo to intervene in states' rights in law enforcement anytime it
pleases.

It's Now or Never For Christians

Church leaders, you should hold an emergency service, not only
praying against the passage of the federal hate bill but also insisting that
every member of your congregation protest to their House and Senate members
immediately. For a quick education on the dangers of hate laws, print out
hundreds of my flyer "Anti-Hate Laws Will You a Criminal" (Download Hate
Crimes Flyer <http://www.truthtellers.org/actionplan.html> ) and distribute
to your church.

And, since most congregations prefer an occasional good movie
instead of a sermon, why not show my video, Hate Laws: Making Criminals of
Christians? It reveals how free speech from the pulpit is now dead in Canada
and could be dead in your pulpit in several weeks. That is unless you act
NOW.

Rev. Ted Pike is the director of the National Prayer Network, a national
Christian/conservative watchdog organization.

Call your member of the House and Senate immediately protesting
all hate crimes legislation! Call tollfree 1-877-851-6437 or toll
1-202-225-3121. Come to www.truthtellers.org <http://www.truthtellers.org/>
for much more information on how you can help save free speech in America.

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
<http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp> .

Learn how ADL took away free speech in Canada and wants to do it
right now in the U.S. Congress. Watch Rev. Ted Pike's Hate Laws: Making
Criminals of Christians
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7217700265038533779&q=ted+pike> at
video.google.com. Purchase this gripping documentary to show at church.
Order online at www.truthtellers.org <http://www.truthtellers.org/> for
$24.90, DVD or VHS, by calling 503-853-3688, or at the address below.

NATIONAL PRAYER NETWORK, P.O. Box 828 Clackamas, OR 97015 ; 503-631-3808
www.truthtellers.org <http://www.truthtellers.org/>

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