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Marine General Peter Pace - decorated
war hero and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -
continues to find himself fending off a vicious and
unfamiliar rapid fire assault from his extreme left-flank.
In recent days, the good general has been widely and
unjustly vilified by America's self-appointed thought
police as they step up their unified and widespread
campaign of homofascist speech enforcement.
During a recent interview with the
Chicago Tribune, Pace violated one of the cardinal rules
of political correctness by noting that, "homosexual
acts between two individuals are immoral."
While defending the military's "don't
ask don't tell" policy, which allows homosexuals
to serve in the armed forces as long as they keep their
- umm - "unorthodox" sexual preferences and
behaviors private, Pace compared homosexual acts to
other acts of sexual immorality such as adultery, and
explained that under the current policy - which Bill
Clinton signed into law in 1994 - acceptance of open
homosexual behavior in the military would amount to
government sanctioning of immorality.
(Emphasis
added by CFAC) Not
surprisingly, many of those non-judgmental, freedom-loving
moral-relativists on the left are up-in-arms, demanding
that Pace apologize and offer a full retraction or be
fired (which would of course be disingenuous, entirely
meaningless and have no effect on the veracity of his
comments).
Those lobbing the
bombs comprise that motley crew of usual suspects including
today's Stepford-wife hippy burnouts in the mainstream
media and their like-minded "progressive"
politicos in government.
Liberal Senators
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have come-out (no pun
intended) against General Pace, and despite the fact
that both profess to be Christians, have unilaterally
declared - without explanation - that homosexual behavior
"is not immoral." They've somehow determined
that God almighty, the Bible, every major world religion,
the unambiguous science of human biology and good-ole
common sense have simply had it wrong for - oh - these
past several thousand years or so.
And just like that, the self-proclaimed
arbiters of sexual morality have lowered the gavel,
overturning the very Biblical authority to which they
claim to subscribe, and ruling that homosexual acts,
such as male-on-male anal penetration which exposes
"gay" men to extremely high risk of deadly
and infectious disease, are now and have always been…
moral.
But those leading the charge against
General Pace and demanding his head on a silver platter
represent a very specific and particularly radical faction
of an already extreme left-wing.
They're the self-styled champions of
"tolerance" and "diversity." Their
carefully crafted propaganda is peppered with provocative
and sensational code-words like "hate," "violence,"
"bigot," "homophobia" - and on and
on, ad infinitum.
They are militant, organized, extremely
powerful and well funded. Through clever semantics and
shrewd political subterfuge they cynically play to honorable
notions of freedom and fair-play in order to push a
deceptive and activist agenda.
They are the radical homosexual lobby,
and when it comes to America's first liberties (free
speech and liberty of conscience) they are anything
but champions of tolerance and diversity.
Theirs is a carefully orchestrated
and skillfully executed scheme not only to undermine,
but to abolish from public discourse, any words - or
even thoughts - which might stem from the traditional
Judeo-Christian worldview upon which our great nation
was founded.
Their agenda: To mandate that only
a secular-humanist worldview may be properly entertained
or referenced. That worldview is one in which morality
is entirely relative, and any reference to traditional
notions of natural human sexuality, the natural family,
or any fixed lines of demarcation between right and
wrong are "hateful," "discriminatory,"
and to be strictly forbidden by force of law.
Both the mainstream media and Hollywood's
yappy celebrity wind-up dolls are the "gay"
lobby's ever-so willing accomplices. Liberal lawmakers
and judicial activists work overtime in tandem with
homosexual groups like the "Human Rights Campaign"
(HRC), The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, and
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to get the job
done.
This unholy amalgamation of left-wing
storm troopers has been empowered by both the November
elections and a recent upsurge in successful speech
enforcement; and they're rapidly ramping-up efforts
to completely silence any criticism of this high-risk,
pleasure-centric and dare I say, "immoral"
lifestyle.
Case in point: Just this past Tuesday
Congressman John Conyers (D-Michigan) introduced the
Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of
2007 (HR 1592). This bill is a fraud on its face, and
would grant sweeping and entirely subjective power and
authority to the federal government to regulate the
thoughts, words and actions of Americans. It would essentially
create a "Federal Department of Thought Enforcement."
Make no mistake; anyone who commits
a violent crime should be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law regardless of a victim's lifestyle choice.
And there are currently laws on the books to ensure
that all victims of violent crime receive equal justice
under the law. However, this bill elevates the status
of homosexuals ("sexual orientation") and
gender confused cross-dressers ("gender identity")
to a special and more valuable class of citizen based
upon their chosen sexual behaviors and/or wardrobe.
HR 1592 would require federal officials
to get into the mind of an offender, subjectively divine
his thoughts, and arbitrarily pronounce whether acts
(or very likely words) directed at homosexuals or cross-dressers
were somehow motivated by bias. If it's decided that
they were, then the offender is slammed with a much
heavier sentence.
All things being equal, this means
that if your 5-foot-2-inch grandmother were attacked
in her home and a 6-foot-4-inch homosexual linebacker
who likes to wear lipstick and high-heels were attacked
by the same assailant, the "gay" linebacker
would be treated as more valuable to society, and the
crime would officially be considered more egregious.
But it's not just criminals who are
targeted by "hate crimes" legislation. This
bill irrefutably sets the table and places us on the
slippery slope toward widespread government persecution.
HR 1592 more accurately resembles dictates born of Joseph
Stalin's communist Russia than it does the constitutional
precepts born of George Washington's America.
Similar "hate crimes" laws
are being used around the world to silence and incarcerate
people who believe, as General Pace, that homosexual
acts are immoral. Brazil is poised to officially make
it criminal "hate speech" to publicly express
any opposition to the homosexual lifestyle (which would
include reading aloud the many Bible verses that do
just that). And Sweden, Canada and the United Kingdom
are likewise imposing criminal and/or civil sanctions
for similar speech. Under these laws, Christ's Apostle
Paul would have been thrown in prison all over again
for saying that unrepentant homosexuals would "not
inherit the Kingdom of God."
But perhaps most chilling is the fact
that right here in America, state "hate crimes"
laws have already been used to silence and persecute
people with traditional values. In Philadelphia, for
instance, eleven Christians who were recently attempting
to share the Gospel with a group of militant homosexual
activists at a public "'gay' pride" festival
were summarily arrested and jailed under Pennsylvania's
"hate crimes" law. That law almost directly
mirrors HR 1592. These people were criminally charged
for their words and beliefs alone… No violence;
no crime; just speech.
So, don't doubt for a moment that under
HR 1592, the express Judeo-Christian position that,
"homosexual behavior is immoral," which was
recently voiced by General Pace, and is shared by a
majority of Americans will, in relatively short order,
constitute criminal "hate speech" if uttered
in public.
And that's precisely the true goal
of such legislation… to attack the 1st Amendment's
guarantees of free speech and liberty of conscience
and to give abhorrent and disordered homosexual behaviors
official government legitimacy, arming the PC police
with a weapon of mass destruction in their crusade to
silence all opposition to the homosexual lifestyle.
But as for the hateful and feverish
media attack General Pace continues to endure…
to his credit, he's managed to stand his ground thus
far. And fortunately for him, if HR 1592 does become
law and is wielded as similar laws have been, he can't
legally be charged with any crime after the fact (ex
post facto).
A couple of days after making his comments
to the Tribune, General Pace said that perhaps he "should
have focused more on [his] support of the policy and
less on [his] personal moral views." But aside
from that slight backpedal, this tough old Marine -
who once threw himself in front of a fellow soldier
to take a sniper's bullet - has refused to apologize
and is once again exhibiting extreme courage under fire.
Shameful, however, is the fact that
General Pace has received very little by way of cover.
One would hope that President Bush
would handle this domestic assault on traditional values
and free speech in the same manner he's handled rabid
criticism of his foreign policy… By standing firm
and defending his troops.
Even more importantly though, is that
once HR 1592 ultimately slithers its way under the Oval
Office door - which it almost certainly will - the president
must show the kind of mettle that comes so naturally
to General Pace.
Let's hope and pray that the president
has the political courage to dust off his magic veto
pen - which unfortunately remains nearly full of ink
- and send this fraudulent "hate crimes" measure
back in time to its giddy proponents' much-loved Soviet
Russia where it more suitably belongs.
Matt Barber is one of the
"like-minded men" with Concerned Women for
America. He is an attorney concentrating in constitutional
law and serves as CWA's policy director for cultural
issues.
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