Family Activist: Proponents of Hate Crimes Legislation Ignoring ‘True Threat’
Well, in looking at this article, I saw one lie right off the bat:
“H.R. 1592, which is known as the ‘Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.’”
In 2004, ABC’s 20/20 aired new evidence that the attack against Matthew Shepard was not motivated by “homosexual hate” but was “a robbery and a beating gone awry” based on trying to get money for drugs from someone they felt would not fight back.
The homosexual activist, of course, have jumped all over the report, claiming bias (that’s calling the kettle black).
I do not mean to make light of the death of Matthew Shepard. He died a horrible, unnecessary death. A good young man’s life was taken for no reason at all.
What I am trying to point out here is that the homosexual activist are misrepresenting this horrible act in order to advance their agenda. And, as I have said on this blog before, this “hate crimes legislation” will be used to silence Christians on the topic of homosexuality, despite reassurances to the contrary.
The president of the Virginia-based Family Policy Network (FPN) says Christians need to know the real agenda behind proposed hate crimes legislation — and must stand against it.
On Monday, a coalition of liberal-leaning groups — the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign, the National Black Justice Coalition, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights — took out a full-page ad in USA Today supporting hate crimes legislation. The ad states that pastors have nothing to fear from H.R. 1592, which is known as the “Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.”
Section 8 of the bill states it will not prohibit free-speech or free-exercise activities protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. But it does call for more intense prosecution and greater penalties for crimes committed against certain classes of people, including homosexuals.
FPN president Joe Glover contends homosexual activists would use the bill as a tool to silence Christians. According to Glover’s group, those activists — in their efforts to silence opposition to homosexuality and the perceived threat of crimes against those who, in Glover’s words, “commit same-sex immorality with one another” — ignore “the true threat” to a homosexual’s safety: other homosexuals.
“If homosexual activists were really concerned about what’s driving so many [practicing homosexuals] to an early grave, they would either address the deadly health consequences associated with their lifestyle,” says the FPN leader; “or number two, they would address the fact that you’re 244 percent more likely to be hurt and murdered by another homosexual than you are by someone who is straight.”
Glover is referring to statistics from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, a self-described pro-homosexual organization that gathers statistics on same-sex domestic abuse and hate crimes against homosexuals. FPN analyst Alex Mason compared NCAVP data from 1999-2003 indicating 24,455 incidents of “same-sex domestic violence crimes,” and 10,022 “hate crimes” committed against homosexuals during the same period. FPN argues that is proof homosexuals are 244 percent more likely to be the perpetrators of violence against other homosexuals than are heterosexuals.
Glover is convinced there is a hidden agenda behind hate crimes legislation. “They’re seeking to inflate numbers,” he charges, “and they keep recalling cases where these things have happened many years ago because they want to try to create a sense that they’re victims and that they’re at risk — and they really are not.”
If homosexuals indeed are at risk, says Glover, it is because people who are also engaging in homosexual conduct are harming them — at a rate almost two-and-a-half times that by heterosexuals.
Original Link.
Wikipedia article on Matthew Shepard.
