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Thursday, May 03, 2007
Matt Barber :: Townhall.com Columnist
Fake Anti-“Gay” “Hate Crimes” Keep Piling Up
by Matt Barber
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The Associated Press is reporting the latest in a string of fraudulent high profile “hate crime” reports by homosexual activists who are evidently having trouble coming up with legitimate incidents of “hate crimes” against homosexuals to bolster their deceptive agenda. “No problem, we’ll just keep making them up,” apparently goes the mindset.

As Congress reportedly prepares to vote Thursday on “hate crimes” bill H.R. 1592, the evidence is overwhelming. The entire concept is built on a foundation of fraud.

The AP reports as follows:

A gay rights group is canceling a planned rally on the Minnesota State University Moorhead campus.

This after police say a previously reported assault was not a hate crime.

The Fargo-Moorhead Ten Percent Society says it supports the decision of Moorhead police and it will be canceling its march planned for Thursday night.

Edina native Paul Marquardt had reported that he was taunted for his sexual orientation and attacked by four men last week.

But Moorhead Deputy Police Chief Bob Larson says investigators heard a conflicting story.

So they interviewed Marquardt again and he said he didn't hear any anti-gay remarks and believes he was pushed down and injured by unknown assailants. Continued...
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J. Matt Barber is Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Counsel and also serves as Associate Dean with Liberty University School of Law.
 
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Reply # 1
Date: May 9, 2007 - 1:30 PM EST
don't have to accept homosexuality
You don't have to accept homosexuality, a racist doesn't have to accept black people...and a man doesn't have to accept that a woman wear pants, vote or have public office.

You DON'T.
And noboby gay, nor their supporters wants to MAKE you.

What WE are discussing, and always have IF you'd been listening...is accepting the humanity and citizenship of gay people and their equality as such.

Want nothing more, nor should WE accept, nor demand anything less.

It's called FAIRNESS and equality. Period.
That's how the law WORKS and WORKS BEST, when this is recognized and consistently applied in the law.
We're ALL better for it.

I don't have to accept stupid people...but as long as they are treated equally in the law, I have more trust in the law when it does so.

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Reply # 2
Date: May 9, 2007 - 1:23 PM EST
majority doesn't define RIGHT
Will is correct, bringing up what a majority doesn't accept, IS specious.

A majority in this country didn't accept women's rights and integration.
AND THEY WERE WRONG!!

What you think you know about homosexuality is an extension of MISOGYNY.

You are naming such countries and their brutality against homosexuality as if this is a point to be made that what? It should happen here too. Or that gay people should be happy it doesn't.

That's like saying because slavery doesn't exist anymore, a black person should be happy with Jim Crow.

Women and homosexuals, are THE most repressed in all the world. And in brutally religious theocracies...the strictest of gender politics and social constructs don't help your argument.
In fact, they support OURS. That you can't recognize a human being, unless they are stuck in artificial gender roles, where they can't help BUT defy them by nature.
And therefore, will act against their nature, giving those the power of the institution, the justification to punish for doing so.

Again, YOU are confused by gay people...God gave you something, YOU simply don't care to recognize and want to punish for existing and defying your sense of supremacy.

AND these same countries and regimes you mentioned have ALSO arrogated themselves regarding what God is, says, and intends...SAME AS YOU DO.

And as long as you're not the one hurt...as long as somebody else is sacrificed, it's got to be GOOD, right?

We know what you sound like, you just don't like to hear it or know it.
You DON'T know gay people as well as THEY KNOW YOU.

I repeat, you DON'T know gay people as well as they know you.

That's why your posts would be laughable if so much tragedy didn't result from others believing as you do.

Funny that, you bring in the majority on what people think if you want to rattle the saber and threaten gay people with your might by numbers...but reject those as on their own, whose thinking turns into a brutal crime.
All of a sudden, they aren't one of you and didn't hear what you really said or meant.

Gay people know you better than you know them. Remember that.
And more and more, your protective shield built on ignorance and fear and violence is shredded by truth, and compassion and honesty.

As it should be.

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