[PLUG-TALK] Squelched speech...
Someone
plug_1 at robinson-west.com
Sat Jan 3 04:59:18 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 20:54 -0800, David Fierbaugh wrote:
> And your point is what?
> People have hidden hate behind the guise of religion forever. You'd
> think people would learn that eventually people get tired of putting
> up with it.
It is hateful to encourage immorality. It is wrong for society or
government to promote immorality. I am not a hateful person, the
point is that the homosexual agenda is threatening freedom of
speech and freedom of religion. Locking people up of fining
them for speaking out on moral issues is in violation of both
freedom of speech and religious freedom.
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Someone <plug_1 at robinson-west.com>
> wrote:
> Philadelphia, 2004: Five members of the Christian group Repent
> America
> are arrested and charged with hate crimes for preaching the
> gospel at a
> gay "outfest" event. Charges were dropped only after lawmakers
> threatened to change the wording of the hate crimes law
> specifically to
> exclude speech (Family Research Council, Culture Facts, Jan.
> 2005).
>
> Saskatchewan, 2000: A complaint was filed in Canada regarding
> an
> advertisement run in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix that displayed
> Bible
> verses against homosexuality. The Saskatchewan Human Rights
> Commission
> recommended that the individuals who purchased the ad pay
> $2,000 in
> damages to each of the three complainants and that the
> defendants share
> the $4,500 cost for the government's expert witnesses. The
> ruling was
> upheld by a Canadian court (Free Republic Online, Sep. 2003).
>
> England, 2001: A broadcaster in the United Kingdom known as
> the "God
> Channel" was fined 20,000 pounds stirling (about $36,000) for
> an ad that
> described homosexuality as an abomination. The Communications
> Commission
> ruled that the ad violated several provisions of the
> advertising code
> and fined the broadcaster (National Liberty Council, NLJ
> Online, Dec.
> 2000/Jan. 2001).
>
> Sweden, 2003: Pastor Aake Green, a Pentecostal minister in
> Oeland,
> Sweden, was convicted in 2003 under Sweden's hate-crimes laws
> and was
> sent to jail for thirty days for calling homosexuality "a deep
> cancer
> tumor on all of society" during a sermon (Family Research
> Council,
> Culture Facts, Mar. 2005).
>
> Netherlands, 2000: A complaint was filed in a Dutch court
> against Pope
> John Paul II for his statement that "homosexual acts are
> contrary to the
> laws of nature." The complaint was dropped when the court
> ruled that the
> Pope's status as a leader of the Catholic Church and the
> Vatican state
> afforded him immunity from prosecution (National Liberty
> Council, NLJ
> Online, Dec. 2000/Jan. 2001).
>
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