I feel like I've talked up Hate Crimes legislation ad nauseum here on the blog and with my podcast, but I've got to write another post today. HR 1592 made it through the House a couple weeks ago and it's being discussed in the Senate as we speak. The White House has intimated that the President will veto the bill if it passes in the Senate as well, but if I remember correctly this would be the third time he's had to do so.

Tomorrow 'Repent America' is organizing a petition day for those who disagree with Hate Crimes legislation to contact their Congressman. Let me give you a couple reasons to get off your duff and get involved:

1. In Canada similar legislation has redefined the Bible as hate speech. Focus on the Family has to edit their Canadian radio broadcast so that they don't say anything that might be construed as offensive toward homosexuals. 
   
2. In Sweden similar legislation led to the prosecution of a pastor for simply reading what Romans has to say about homosexuality in his sermon.
3. Hate Crimes legislation creates a specially protected group of individuals and wildly increases the penalty for committing a crime against them. Plainly put: the murder of a white, heterosexual male will get you less jail time than the murder of a white, homosexual male. Don't believe me? It's already playing out that way in New Hampshire.
   
4. Finally, if you so much as say something publicly that is perceived as negative by a specially protected class, you could be looking at a lawsuit or prosecution. Your right to freedom of religion is infringed upon by their special rights to not be disagreed with.