Strang Report

You may have heard the news that late Wednesday afternoon the so-called Hate Crimes Bill, HR-1913, passed the U.S. House with a vote of 249 - 175. Around 5 p.m. a motion to reconsider was agreed to without objection.

I believe that this is a real blow to our liberties as outlined below. We must get the word out to as many people as we can so that this is defeated in the Senate, since President Obama has said that he will sign the bill rather than veto a similar bill as President Bush did.

I also want to call our intercessors to pray because this is much more than just a political battle. I believe this is also spiritual warfare.

On Tuesday Robert A. J. Gagnon sent out an interesting letter detailing why Christians need to be proactive in fighting this hate crimes bill. You can read it below.

Here is the letter from Gagnon, an associate professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. After you read his letter, post a comment on the site to let me know what you think.

Support for a "hate" bill that enshrines "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" into federal law (note that it is not yet so enshrined) does not mean merely that you oppose hateful, violent acts against persons who self-identify as homosexuals, transsexuals, and cross-dressers. Laws are already in place protecting persons who identify as homosexual or transgendered. They are the same laws that protect all of us from violent physical or verbal attacks.

Support for such a bill means, in effect, that you are in favor of the federal government taking an official, legal stance that opposition to homosexual practice and transgenderism of any sort is hatred and bigotry akin to virulent racism and liable to state prosecution. Any statement against such homosexual practice or transgenderism could be prosecuted as an "incitement" or "inducement" of others to violence, no matter how loving and rational that expression of opposition may be.

A "sexual orientation hate" crime bill does virtually all its damage in establishing "sexual orientation" as a category of being that is worth the federal government's vigorous special protection. A person who has a problem with the behavior arising from homosexual "orientation" will be legally established as a "bigot," even if he or she does not commit a violent crime. That status becomes codified in law. Your opposition to homosexual practice, no matter how loving and rational, puts you in the category of a virulent racist who regards African Americans as morally inferior beings.

In establishing an official "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" protection category, "sexual orientation" hate laws make inevitable, so-called "employment nondiscrimination acts" for "sexual orientation" that turn out to be "employment discrimination acts" against people in the workplace who do not want to support a homosexualist agenda. Together they make inevitable the passage of legislation that mandates acceptance of "gay marriage." It is not possible to be for a "sexual orientation thought-crime" bill and not also be for the enforcement of "gay marriage" because the former leads inevitably to the latter. That is how the courts in Massachusetts and, recently Iowa, operated. They moved from "sexual orientation" laws in "hate crime" and "employment" to treating as intrinsically discriminatory any opposition to "gay marriage."

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