Christian America? lost

NPN Email Alert: “CHRISTIAN AMERICA: LOST IN THE WILDERNESS
By Rev. Ted Pike
14 Feb 07
The federal “anti-hate” bill, HR 254, is stealth legislation at its most devious. Its language deceives all but the most suspicious and informed. Maybe this helps explain why evangelical watchdog organizations do little or nothing to sound the alarm, even though the hate bill has been in the House of Representatives for six weeks!

On ten top conservative websites, I found no mention of the David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HR 254). I found just one alert on the citizen link page of Dr. Dobson’s Focus on the Family website. When several friends and I called D. James Kennedy’s Coral Ridge Ministries, American Family Association, and Jerry Falwell Ministries, they promised to research the hate bill immediately.

But this legislation is so disarmingly worded that even Christians and conservatives contact me to ask, “This bill just wants federal power to prosecute bias-motivated violent crimes in the states—what’s wrong with that?”

“There’s plenty wrong with that!”