Judge Roy Moore and Foundation for Moral Law Argue Pennsylvania 'Hate Crimes' Law Violates State Constitution in Brief Filed Today with Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
MEDIA ADVISORY, March 17 /Christian Newswire/ -- Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and attorneys with the Foundation for Moral Law, representing several Pennsylvania Christians, argued in a brief filed today in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that the state legislature violated the state constitution in 2002 when it added "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the state's "hate crimes" law--under the title "ethnic intimidation." (Read the legal brief here.)
Judge Roy Moore said about this important case:
"There is a dangerous trend surfacing in other countries and here in America where governments are trying to make it illegal to speak out against homosexuality, even when such an immoral lifestyle is publicly paraded in the streets. In their rush to be Pennsylvania's thought police, the legislature broke their own state's constitutional rules. God alone has the ability to see, and the right to judge, the hearts and minds of men."
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Re: The Return of Judge Roy Moore (Score: 1)
by Brian37 on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 @ 08:44:59 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | It sucks that such a theocrat and bigot filed this motion, but he is right.
The Constitution does not protect you from being offended, nor does it force citizens to like their neighbor or always say nice things about them.
"Hate crime" language is thought police.
OUR common law is already in place to deal with violence be it direct or advocated. It is already illegal to physically harm someone, your spouse or your neighbor, out of premeditation or sudden rage NO MATTER IF THE MOTIVATION IS ROBBERY OR HATE.
What the politically correct types fail to realize is that they may not be the lawmakers, or judges or juries deciding what is or is not "hate".
I am quite sure that many Christians could look at this site and see it as "hate speech" against Christianity. Certainly it is blasphemous and offensive to some.
And I am sure that there would be Roy Moore types who, if given the chance would use "hate crime" laws, if they could, to shut down sites like this.
The problem is not the good intent of ending bigotry, I do agree with that. I disagree with giving government the power to silence dissent.
Atheists are NOT in the majority and many Christians do see us as hateful, even though we are not. I am not going to risk giving the majority, through thought crime laws, the power to silence me.
Political correctness is what the Muslim nuts want in demanding that a cartoonist not pick on Muhammed. I do not want to give Christians that kind of power here.
Imagine "Hate Crime" laws being interpreted by judges who think like Pat Robertson. Politically correct people don't seem to understand that they are loading the gun and aiming it at their own free speech.
If one values the right to say, "Jesus is fiction" then we must allow the moronic statements like "atheists love Hitler". Don't use government as a nipple to protect you from offensive speech. Use your own voice to counter what bigots say. |
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