Pure Common Sense

It’s official.  Obama signed it into law yesterday.  Federal “hate-crime” dogma has been extended to include sexual orientation.  This is another loss for freedom and another loss for the First Amendment.  This law targets not what crime someone commits but who they commit it against and what they think when they are committing it.  Hence, it has become known as a “thought-crime,” something which sounds Orwellian in nature.  Even more shady is the fact that the provision was not put forward in its own separate bill, but attached to a military spending package.  It was not an attractive enough option for proponents to attempt to pass it on its own so they made it an earmark.

According to the coverage on World Net Daily, “U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder admitted a homosexual activist who is attacked following a Christian minister’s sermon about homosexuality would be protected by the proposed federal law, but a minister attacked by a homosexual wouldn’t be.”  This is thus not about justice – true justice is blind and unbiased, but about a cheap political coy.  At least there is a provision in the bill which exempts religious organizations – that provision passed as part of the bill despite opposition from the secular socialists who formed the backbone of the support for this measure.  However, if some activist judge decides to overlook that part of the bill, bad things might happen.

Oh, then there’s the “hate speech” section of the bill.  Careful what you say to a gay person now – you might get sued.