Apr

28

Religious Groups Spreading Lies About Hate Crime Bill

Filed Under LGBT, Religion, WTF? 

The ninth commandment says “Thou shall not lie.” Is it too much to believe a religious organization would remember that?

Today, the anti-gay religious organization AFA sent out an email (screen capture here) designed to scare its recipients into believing that a new hate crime bill (H.R. 1913) will make incest a legally protected act. This is a blatant lie. Anyone with at least an 8th grade education can read the bill and see there’s no mention of legalizing incest.

H.R. 1913 is designed to provide harsher penalties for violent crimes “motivated by the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of the victim.”

I guess religious conseravatives failed in their attempt to convince religious fanatics that H.R. 1913 threatens religious freedom so they tried a more radical approach to stop the bill’s passing. There’s nothing in the wording of H.R. 1913 that supports this lie posted on TraditionalValues.org:

The so-called hate crimes bill will be used to lay the legal foundation and framework to investigate, prosecute and persecute pastors, business owners, Bible teachers, Sunday School teachers, youth leaders, Christian counselors, religious broadcasters and anyone else whose actions are based upon and reflect the truths found in the Bible, which have previously been protected by the First Amendment, resulting in a chilling effect on religious liberties.

Personally, I’m not a huge fan of hate crime laws. I advocate stiffer penalties for all violent crimes – regardles of the reason. Even though I don’t support the passing of hate crime legislation, I would never lie to my readers about the bill or exaggerate its ramifications

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