Beware of Federal Hate-Crime Proposal

By Bill ~ April 28th, 2009 @ 7:25 pm

David Limbaugh has written an article, posted on Newsmax.com, about a piece of legislation making its way through congress. The bill, H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, authored by Barney Frank, would make it a federal crime to cause bodily injury willfully to someone (or to attempt to do so with firearms or explosives) because of his or her actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

Limbaugh points out that the bill attempts to justify itself and its broad sweeping federal jurisdiction by reciting dubious findings, such as, “The movement of members of targeted groups is impeded, and members of such groups are forced to move across State lines to escape the incidence or risk of such violence,” and, “Perpetrators cross State lines to commit such violence.” He goes on to say:

Let me ask you sincerely: Do you really believe these assertions? Have you ever heard of such phenomena? Color me oblivious, but I don’t and I haven’t.
Color me, also, alarmist, but I think the main purpose of this bill is to demonize and criminalize thought, especially the politically incorrect belief that homosexual behavior is either abnormal or sinful. It is to make an emphatic societal statement that this belief constitutes “hate” and possibly to lay the groundwork for outlawing speech expressing this belief, including from the pulpit.

This is a very dangerous bill and I would encourage you to take a few moments to write, call, or email your representative and senators, and ask them to vote against this bill. A movement by the people stopped the Dubai Port Deal and can stop this act too. With the defection of Arlen Specter to the Democratic Party, widespread communication of our conservative desires and beliefs to congress is the only hope we have of limiting the damage that Liberals have the potential to do on our country.