- My recent article, "Who's Warning About the Hate
Bill?" revealed an alarming fact: Most large Christian/conservative
watchdog groups were either unaware of or had not alerted their constituents
about the ominous federal anti-hate bill, H.R. 254, even after it had been
in the Congress for six weeks!
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- My article was emailed to many of them. Some responded.
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- Within a day of our posting, World Net Daily published
a powerful article, "Diss a gay? Go to jail!" by Bob Unruh. Linking
to www.truthtellers.org, WND quotes me extensively, along with new right
activists Michael Marcavage, head of the "Philly 11," Peter LaBarbera
of Americans for Truth, and Mary Starrett, PR director for the Constitution
Party. (Starrett has written a hard-hitting expose of H.R. 254.)
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- Astonishingly, WND had the courage to do what other new
right organizations have considered unthinkable: They named "the powerful
[Jewish] Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith" as a primary supporter
of the hate bill. This is WND's third recent article critical of H.R. 254,
continuing its record of dependable reporting on hate crimes issues.
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- Others have also responded. Buddy Smith, spokesman for
Rev. Donald Wildmon, head of the American Family Association, assures us
Rev. Wildmon has been hard at work on an article against H.R. 254; it will
be posted imminently on the AFA website and emailed to 3 million constituents.
AFA included several articles against the hate bill within the last month
on its onenewsnow.com news service. This fact eluded us in our search of
the AFA website last week.
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- In my recent article, we reported no mention of H.R.
254 on Concerned Women for America's website. CWA responded, saying a search
must be for "H.R. 254" rather than HR 254 (although we did search
under "hate laws" and could find nothing more recent than Robert
Knight's excellent article of 2005). CWA did in fact post an article by
Sarah Rode on January 19, 2007. While it misleadingly asserts that H.R.
254 is the work of the homosexual lobby, it is a spirited warning to CWA's
large constituency. Two days following our e-alert, CWA featured a 15-minute
interview with Michael Marcavage in which the threat of H.R. 254 was mentioned.
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- Dr. D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries responded
by posting a very brief statement warning against the hate bill, as does
also Family Research Council. Alan Keye's Renew America reprinted WND's
article. Traditional Values Coalition, while having sent out alerts against
the hate bill, still has no website warnings against it. This is true also
of Christian Coalition and Gary Bauer's American Values.
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- Incredible Silence
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- Despite such general encouragement, the fact remains
that very little has been written against H.R. 254 since it was introduced
in the House seven weeks ago. This is astonishing, considering the magnitude
of the hate bill's threat to freedom.
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- Visit most of the above websites and you will find hundreds
of archived articles critical of abortion, embryonic stem cell research,
same sex marriage, etc. What makes these other issues so compellingly more
important than the hate bill threat? Why do most leaders feel a handful
of articles fulfill their duty to warn of an impending federal hate crimes
bureaucracy -- a police state which will radically remake our whole justice
system and take away free speech? Judging by the infrequency of articles
against hate laws, one would think this issue is 1/500th as important.
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- The opposite is true! Our free speech, like our beating
heart, is essential to keep all our other freedoms alive. Without free
speech, none of these other issues can even be discussed in public.
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- Wait for the President's Veto? No!
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- Gary Bauer, head of American Values, responded to our
inquiry concerning why he was not alerting his constituents. He said defeat
of the hate bill on Capitol Hill "doesn't look good right now so we
are trying to convince the President to veto it if it passes."
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- His approach is similar to the strategy of Dr. James
Dobson. Yes, Dobson says, we should protest to members of Congress from
our state. But eventually the President will probably have to save us.
Dobson's sentiment was also conveyed to me as shared by Traditional Values
Coalition. It seems to be the position of the Family Research Council as
well.
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- But most AFA constituents do not reflect this hope. In
a February 9 poll, 67 percent doubted if Bush would veto a hate bill. Their
skepticism is well founded. When pointedly asked, Bush refuses to assure
us that he would veto H.R. 254.
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- Clearly, our only option is to fight the hate bill with
everything we have right now. I believe we can thoroughly dishearten hate
bill supporters from moving the bill forward - if new right leaders repeatedly
dramatize the hate bill threat through broadcasting and the internet, especially
during this formative time in the House Judiciary. All conservative organizations
should join the National Prayer Network to broadcast the many, well-documented
horror stories of persecution under hate laws in countries such as Canada.
They should visit <http://www.truthtellers.org/>www.truthtellers.org
for complete education of their staff and writers, using the wealth of
well-considered, pre-digested arguments that have so successfully helped
defeat the hate bill three times in the last two years.
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- This is not a time for hesitation, skepticism, or elitism.
Conservative leaders may disagree with my criticisms of Jewish activism
or the state of Israel, but the fact is, I am powerfully furthering their
interests. They should not hesitate to take advantage of the extensive
educational resources of <http://www.truthtellers.org/>www.truthtellers.org.
They and their staffs should watch my video "Hate Laws: Making Criminals
of Christians" at <http://www.video.google.com/>www.video.google.com.
If the entire spectrum of the new right will work together now, the hate
bill, in its fledgling state in Judiciary, can be killed now before it
takes wing through passage in the House and then the Senate.
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- Needed: Killer Instinct
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- The advice of a World War I aviation ace is instructive
to us now. The "Red Baron" stayed in the skies thanks to very
clear thinking. He said success was due to two rules:
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- 1) Never attack unless in a position of advantage.
- 2) Once you attack, do not hesitate but pursue and
continue shooting relentlessly.
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- Are we in a position of advantage against the hate bill?
Absolutely! Although the Democrats control the "skies" of the
House and the Senate, we can send missiles of truth and destroy the hate
bill on the "ground" of the House. These weapons, phone calls
to all members of the Judiciary Committee and copies of my hate crimes
flyer to your congressional delegation, can powerfully ignite the tissue
of lies that covers the hate bill, causing it to go up in flames before
it fully clears the runway!
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- At this critical time, all conservative leaders should
post at least weekly articles attacking and exposing H.R. 254 and the whole
twisted philosophy behind hate crimes legislation. More than ever, we need
the Red Baron's "killer" instinct, mixed with righteous indignation
and fearlessness that can only come from Almighty God.
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- If the hate bill passes Congress and Pres. Bush fulfills
his pledge to pass "modified hate crimes legislation," we will
not have a second chance at freedom. We will have a police state. How ill
advised not to give our utmost effort to resist passage of the hate bill
from the very beginning!
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- Yes, if, having done all, we must eventually throw ourselves
upon the mercy of the President, so be it. But for the present, we
must fight as if our very lives depended on it -- as they surely do.
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- Let's trust God and keep firing!
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- HR 254 is presently assigned to the House Judiciary Committee,
but as a streamlined version of a bill that previously passed in the House,
it could race forward to passage very quickly. Call all 40 members, available
at www.truthtellers.org and protest.
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- Also call your House member and two state senators at
1-877-851-6437. Send them and their influential legislative aides Rev.
Ted Pike's flyer, "Anti-Hate Laws Will Make You a Criminal."
All this information is available at www.truthtellers.org.
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