All Conservatives Will Be Hate Criminals under H.R.1913.RFS

(Third in a series in recognition of New York City’s “Gay Pride Week”)

I think most of us believe in the axiom of live and let live, in the plaintive cry of Rodney King’s, “Why can’t we all just get along?”

I’m all for that, as long as we’re not expected to gather for a group hug and sing “Kumbayah,” and with another notable exception. When others trample on our rights, on our liberties, on our values, on our free expression of our beliefs then, no, we can’t all just get along until they cease and desist.

The Congress of the United States is in the process of such a trampling, a veritable stomping, by virtue of a new “Hate Crimes Law” which, when passed and signed into the law of the land will become yet another nail in the coffin of America’s freedoms.

Just as most of us want to simply live and let live, most of us decry senseless hatred which is not what this bill is all about. What it’s all about, under the guise of making hatred a thought crime, which is absurd and bad enough, is an effort to control and prosecute free speech, which is unconstitional and also bad enough.

Sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, the “2009 Hate Crimes Bill,” HR 1913, takes thought crime and free speech prohibitions to a level inconceivable as little as six months ago.

As one distinguished scholar interprets it, HR 1913 will unprecedentedly establish a preferred category of both victims and law breakers, based on sexual proclivities.

For the most part, homosexuals will be the trod-upon victims, heterosexuals the criminals. However, the good news is that only those heteros who dare to express an opinion, verbally or in writing, such as in this blog, could be prosecuted.

“Liberty University law professor Shawn Akers writes that if H.R. 1913, the federal ‘Hate Crimes’ bill, becomes law, ‘local and state law enforcement would have the incentive of federal funds to prosecute cases involving . . . preferred victims to the exclusion and neglect of less valuable victims.’ Membership in the ‘preferred’ category is ‘based not on immutable characteristics but on the class member’s choice of sexual conduct . . . and subjective gender self-identity:” http://americansfortruth.com/news/analysis-of-2009-hate-crimes-bill-hr-1913.html#more-2733.

See that website for the full text of “Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.″

Anyone interested in reading the entire document will be accomplishing much more than our lawmakers do. They are inclined to vote into law bills they don’t bother to read, even multibillion dollar stimulus packages. That law covered a staggering 1588 pages and not a single legislator deigned to read it.

This proposed “hate bill” that will alter our lives, and our Constitution, is a piddling few pages but most of our leaders still won’t read it. It was passed by the House on April 29th and now officially identified as H.R.1913.RFS rests in the hands of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

That panel is chaired by Patrick Leahy and includes such Democrat notables as Arlen Specter, Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer. Feel free to guess how they will vote.

(If the website link for the bill’s text is outdated, it can be found here in all its ignominious glory: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D? )c111:9:./temp/~c1118bgECl:: )

Prof. Akers’ extensive analysis of the content and probable impact of the original HR 1913 is a chilling account.. . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)

DavidN, I think you’re missing the other reason Teh One doesn’t want to push gay rights – that would undercut his support from – believe it or not – minorities. He sat in Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years, and while you can describe that church as antisemitic, racist, and a whole lot of other adjectives, one other that fits is homophobic. 0bama understands this.

Actually, I was saying this, from the other side of the equation. The point is that the gay vote isn’t “in play”. Neither is the Black vote, but the Latino one definitely was, and is. A lot of Hispanics wind up owning small businesses, and the minute someone begins exploiting the working poor by being an employer, they’re evil, and pushed towards the Republican Party. Giving the gays what they want on gay marriage and DADT might push some Latinos out of the coalition, and they’re more important (because there are more of them) than the gays are.

Also, there’s a second problem for the gays. Their leadership is terminally stupid when it comes to running publicity campaigns with the rest of the world. During the Prop 8 campaign here they were running commercials comparing themselves to Civil Rights Marchers in the sixties, and now there’s actually been a proposal kicked around for gays to boycott the Black community (Black-owned businesses, etc.) until the Blacks change their mind and vote the right way the next time. Until they understand how to talk to people who don’t agree with them, they’re going to be perpetual losers in the court of public opinion. Of course, when I say this on liberal, or gay sites, I get told my time is past, I’ll be lying to my grandchildren about my position on this issue, etc. No one really listens, because they don’t want to be told the truth.