Alert on hate crimes legislation

NPN Email Alert: “Sens. Kennedy and Smith had good reason for trying to attach the hate bill to the military re-appropriations bill several weeks ago: they have the votes to pass it.
A vote on the hate crimes amendment is now postponed until September. That delay can help defeat the bill — only if concerned Americans work hard during the summer recess of Congress. We must guarantee overwhelming protest when Congress reconvenes on September 4.
Otherwise, this delay will actually help the hate bill to pass! With the American military anxiously in need of funding, President Bush will face intense pressure in September to sign the arms bill. The President has indicated he would veto the hate bill. Yet if the Senate attaches it to the arms bill and won’t back down, Bush may feel forced to pass the arms bill and the hate bill together.
If the hate crimes bill becomes law, America will become a virtual police state, with united federal and local police powers. Anyone (including pastors, publishers, talk show hosts, etc.) “

The hate bill could be interpreted anyway any local, state or federal government wanted it to be interpreted. Whatever the prosecutor believes is hate is hate. If Christian teaching is viewed as hate Christians will be prosecuted. If teaching the truth about global warming is view as a danger, it is hate. Saying homosexuality is sinful will be hate. Calling people sinners will be hate. Saying Islam is evil is hate. The list of hate will be as vast as the prejudice within a prosecutor or an accusers mind.