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Letter To Congress: Stop 'Hate Crimes' Bill

Dear Editor, after reading about S. 909, I've written an Open Letter To Congress

Dear Senator,
How is it that we have legislation pending before Congress [S. 909] designed to take away our religious freedoms? The First Amendment was enacted first and foremost to protect our religious freedom so that every American would have the guaranteed right to uphold the precepts of life given in the Book of Life and Love, the Bible.

The public defense of family values or censure of immorality by definition are religious functions and rights that are protected by the U.S. Constitution under the First Amendment. This coincides with Separation of Church and State which forbids the state from intruding on the religious practice of the people (provided it doesn't go against the Ten Commandments upon which the Constitution is based.)

After all, Separation of Church and State never meant that the state was to be separated from God, quite obviously, since we were set up as a Christian nation under God where the precepts of Christianity must have absolute bearing upon our legislative and judicial decisions. Separation of Church and State was to protect the Church, not the state. The founding fathers came to America with the very purpose of having a country where religious freedom could flourish without the fear of political entities breathing down their back, for which reason the establishment clause was enacted.

Therefore, the Senate cannot propose a law that would infringe on the very freedoms the Constitution was set up to protect. S. 909 proposes to do just that. Its purpose is to incriminate the moral convictions of Christians who oppose homosexuality and the like. To pass such a law would be like passing a law that says we may not teach the Ten Commandments or proclaim the word of Christ in our schools or churches, which of course would be absurd. In our Constitution it is not only one's right but duty to defend the cause of morality and life and to speak out against anything that would violate against it, be it rape, theft, murder of children, or gay pedophilia.

Antichrist religions cannot claim the same Constitutional protection; their aspirations to murder or to inflict terror are not protected by the U.S. Constitution because these aspirations are not rooted in Biblical principle. The same applies to homosexuality and willful murder of the young. We were defined by the Supreme Court as a Christian Nation, and as such, the purpose of the Constitution in its every clause is to defend the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; it does not defend the rights of murderers and sex offenders who want to overthrow the Constitution because they harbor criminal aspirations.

Therefore let the Senate and professed adherents of the Constitution scrap the so-called 'hate crimes' bill on the grounds that it is a seditious attack on God and country. Let them understand that this is an insidious plot to undermine the very principles upon which this nation under God was founded. Yea, it is the truest hate crime being proposed at this time, and should it be passed it will mark the beginning of a totalitarian rule where big brother can step in and monitor the religious practice of Christian America.

David Martin

"Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice: To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of My people" - Isaiah 10:1, 2