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Tim, NW, and Nigel as well as Anthony have eloquently pointed out numerous times that perception is key to how an issue is responded to. In the case of LGBT Civil Rights and the fight for Equality, the front lines are in the United States and the lines have been drawn.
It doesn't matter if it's Marriage Rights, or Military policies that proscribe participation in the Armed Forces as openly Gay citizens wanting to defend their country, or Hate Crimes, the opposition is formidable and quite unyielding.
Here is the reaction to the passage of the Shepard Act by one of the largest and most vocal opponent of LGBT Rights:
SAVECALIFORNIA.COM NEWS RELEASE
October 28, 2009 -- For Immediate Release
Mr. President, here’s how ‘hate crime’ laws trample religious freedom
California is using 'LGBT hate crime' definitions to trample people's cherished moral values
Sacramento – SaveCalifornia.com, a leading West Coast pro-family, pro-child organization, is warning Americans that the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual “hate crimes” law signed today by President Obama will, unrestrained, lead to “LGBT rights” trampling religious freedom and everyone else’s rights.
California’s experience with “hate crime” laws clearly demonstrates how moral conscience is trampled by placing definitions of anything-goes “sexual orientation” and “gender” into the law. “In 1998, California first placed homosexuality into the state’s hate-crime law,” said Randy Thomasson, a legislative analyst and president of SaveCalifornia.com. "Ten years later, largely hidden from the general public, these hate-crime definitions are being used to sexually indoctrinate schoolchildren, trample parental rights, and infringe upon the religious rights and moral standards of business owners and property owners."
“By awarding special preference to alternative lifestyles in hate-crimes laws, today in California, the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda has more legal power than religious citizens, parents, business owners and property owners,” said Thomasson. “Children, parents, contractors, business owners, and physicians have all been hurt by the ‘LGBT hate crimes’ law. Given California’s experience, it is reasonable to expect that, unless restrained by voters, Congress will expand the federal ‘LGBT hate crimes’ definitions throughout the U.S. Code, trampling religious freedom, parental rights, moral standards, and ownership rights in the process.”
"Connect the dots," said Thomasson, "and you'll see how 'LGBT hate crimes' definitions are the beginning of the intolerant homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda trampling other people's basic rights throughout the law. It's imperative to understand that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists are demanding their own way at the expense of Americans' basic rights to exercise their religious and moral beliefs."
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