Christianity Has Become Criminal To
Homosexuals
by Pete Fisher
1/02/05
On October 10th, eleven men peacefully demonstrated during a gay
street festival called "Outfest" in Philadelphia. Despite being surrounded by the
"Pink Angels," these men patiently withstood shouts, whistles and
baiting by the militant group. Evidence shows they responded with
Scripture reading, and yet 4 were arrested and face 47 years if
convicted of felony charges. Protesting over a moral issue is their
right. To be arrested for hate crimes, and charged with laws I
never knew existed is a travesty and blatant violation of their right
we have in this nation to peacefully protest and to speak what we
desire to speak.
It is an outrageous reaction of the homosexual groups as well as
law enforcement and prosecutors to not only arrest these men, but to
charge them with "crimes" that can put them into prison for decades!
Let me begin with the right to protest in this nation. We can apply
for a permit and protest anything we desire. I was under the
impression that was a basic element that made this country great.
Seeing as I served 6 years in the military to ensure we keep these
freedoms, I feel my opinion is valid. I will not quietly stand by
while others attempt to dismantle those rights, freedoms that I
watched friends suffer and die for.
Homosexual groups have been church members in many denominations
throughout the country. They have been ordained, they attend church,
they perform the duties of laity.
Some churches accept this alternate way of life while others do
not. This is life anywhere in the world, and with more freedom in the
USA than anywhere else. I have personal habits that would also be
offensive to some Christians. Whether I work on the Sabbath or decide
to drink a little wine from time to time, or the fact that I am
divorced is enough to keep me out of many ministries and
denominations.
Do I sue? No. Do I grab the media and create a huge circus with it?
No. Do I attempt to have those people imprisoned because they disagree
with me? No.
I go about my business and figure they are merely less fortunate to
have my personality and abilities within their assembly. Our
Politically Correct system is taking away more rights than it
provides.
What frosts my hide about four men being stripped of their freedom
of speech is that one of the charges is listed as "ethnic
intimidation." Though technically homosexuality could fall into this
category due to their way of life, it seems that it is stretching the
law.
Gay bashing is wrong. Inflammatory threats against gays are wrong.
But when simply using scripture to show disagreement with a particular
lifestyle gets citizens of this nation arrested, and looking at very
long prison terms becomes a crime, I get angry, and every
freedom-loving American should be.
So what then? If a national group is ethnic according to
interpretation, and we allow people to be imprisoned for speaking
against it, than why aren’t heterosexuals who are being called
"breeders," and religious groups who are insulted daily by homosexuals
having homosexuals arrested?
Because if we continue to allow this to happen we will minimize the
law and allow it to morph into such broad descriptions that everyone
and anyone will be able to sue, imprison, and harass anyone who
disagrees with their lifestyle.
So what if people protest your lifestyle? So what if people refuse
to accept it as something they either desire for themselves or to have
their children around? Just as I have taught my children my own views
about homosexuality, I have also taught them about stealing, about
lying, about becoming druggies or drunks.
If a church that refuses to hire a homosexual and was sued for
discrimination, I would be angry, because it really comes down to
this, not everyone in this world will ever agree 100% with everyone.
That is life. It is a fact. And there is nothing anyone can do to
remedy that. So why force the issue? Why fill our courts with lawsuits
against those who simply protest using the same Bible our Forefathers
used? Because anyone who wants the pendulum to swing only one way
eventually gets the axe themselves.
Homosexual groups have forced their way into the Boy Scouts, an
organization based on Christian morality that deals with children.
Many people are livid that their child is being taught that
homosexuality is normal or accepted. After all, the way to raise their
children is a parental choice. So it is a government-funded
organization you say? Well, so is AIDS research, and there are many
out there who think their tax money should go to a better cause than
to relieve the pains of an ethnic group that engages in a high-risk
lifestyle. Perhaps Conservatives and Christians should band together
and stop that funding as well because it simply disagrees with their
moral ethic?
Should we stop all funding for any government funds that teach our
children in public schools that homosexuality is a normal choice in
life? Or should we start having homosexuals arrested for inflammatory
speech every time they use harsh language towards those who are
hetero? Or stop all taxpayer-funded monies from allowing huge Gay
Pride Parades on publicly funded streets?
I think so. And many other I have heard from think so as well.
Because if people in this nation are to be arrested for reciting
scripture in a legal protest, eventually it will bring nothing of
value to this society. And in time we will all have laws created to
protect us and our children, our tax money and our "ethnic" values
that will perhaps be detrimental to the Gay population. When values
that are outside the norm are forced onto any population, it will only
reinforce the anger of those who dislike homosexuals. It is serving to
change the minds of those who never had much of an opinion on Gays to
a negative opinion.
The Gay culture in this country is basically saying that any group
who disagrees with them is criminal and wrong. They cry out for basic
rights, but will deny anyone else their basic rights. Gays protested
and sued to keep people from having injustice being done to them. Yet
gay lawsuits and criminal charges have perpetrated injustice to four
men whom did nothing but protest and quote scripture. That is
hypocritical, and it is wrong. I say if there are any Gay groups out
there with a sense of decency and justice, to protest this injustice
as strong as you would if it happened to one of your own. Or believe
me, you will have very little respect and any stereotypes out there
now, and bigotry against you will only grow more and make your own
protests weaker and less effective.
No one really cares what you do behind closed doors. But leave your
agenda to force your ideology and lifestyle into society and into our
schools. Because if you do not, when the pendulum swings the other way
it will cause heavy backlash and further negative stereotypes. You
rallied for Gay marriage rights, and many of your ilk are now without
insurance benefits because with the advent of that idea, you now have
the same rights as hetero couples. Even though many Gays publicly said
it was a bad idea to start, it started.
And many people in America, who have never had a problem with Gays,
now have a problem with Gays.
Right now one could easily say any homosexual who commits a crime
against a hetero be imprisoned for a "hate crime". Anyone who calls
names such as homophobe, breeder, ignorant, Nazi, etc.
should be arrested immediately for "ethnic slurs." Any
homosexual who tries to use taxpayer monies for medical research to
find a cure for a disease they willingly toy with for sexual pleasure
should be imprisoned for fraud. Any homosexual who even touches a
child should be imprisoned for assault.
Is this what you really want? No? Because this is where society
generally goes after being shoved only so far. And people I know who
were never against Gays for any reason have been getting angrier and
angrier at the abuse of freedoms and of the legal system. There is now
anger and bias where there was never anger or bias before.
And as in all societies, eventually the pendulum swings the other
way as seen in India and the Middle East. From the Kama Sutra and
Roman Baths came strict religious indignation coupled with a stifled
era in the way of freedom. The last election should itself show that
this nation is getting weary of those who attack Christianity daily.
To like minded homosexuals who see no problem with these men losing
everything they have due to a simple protest while exorcising their
rights as Americans. You call Christians small minded and liken them
to the Taliban, but it is your ways that are more related, because of
the indifference and harshness of the treatment of those who disagree
with you. You seek to create a society where only your way of life and
ideology is accepted with no room for anything else. Taliban. Moscow.
Beijing. Hitler. Thought like that destroys, it never builds.
If this is what you want, keep arresting those with different
opinions and those who dislike you. Because when it comes your way,
you will have no more sympathy than the French peasants had for Marie
Antoinette while the Aristocrats were beheaded.
I say protest this on your own and claim some justice. Go help save
these men from what could very easily become the fate of you and
others. Or face the music yourselves when society decides to change
the direction of the blade.
Pete Fisher is a political columnist in Chicago, Illinois. He can
be contacted at
PFisher2005@aol.com
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