October 31, 2005 journal, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Child Protection Act with a quickie rider on it like a lion tail. "H-a-t-e crimes bill equals turning God's Word in to H-a-t-e Speech" (or thought crimes). An article in The Times Examiner October 19 by Tony Beam describes it well. "S1145, also known as the Local Law-Enforcement Act of 2005 says in part, "the incident of violence motivated by the actual or received race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or disability of a victim poses a serious national problem" (emphasis mind). In that one ominous sentence homosexuality has broken through the glass ceiling of being a chosen lifestyle to the point of being protected by law. True, this particular bill would not levy criminal penalties to those who preach against homosexuality but it opens the door to protected civil rights status for a chosen sexual lifestyle and it rise’s the specter of additional legislation which would curtail the right of Evangelical Christians to point out that homosexuality, according to the Bible, is sinful behavior. Two countries have already passed so-called h-a-t-e crimes laws, which have subsequently been used to prosecute pastors. In 2004, Swedish Pentecostal Pastor Ake Green was successfully prosecuted and sent to prison for a month for preaching a sermon where he described homosexuality acts as "abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumor on the body of society". In Alberta, Canada, The Rev. Stephen Boissoin finds himself under the threat of thousands of dollars in fines for nothing more than writing a letter to the editor of a local newspaper expressing his anger at the fact that public schools in Canada are engaging in indoctrination in favor of the g-a-y lifestyle". In this country, homosexual activist have long pushed the scientific community to come up with indisput-able evidence that homosexuality is determined at birth and therefore, is not a choice and cannot be changed. So far, despite the occasional premature announcement and banner headline of a scientific breakthrough in this area, there is currently no credible evidence scientificly that homosexuality is anything but a chosen lifestyle. Homosexual activist have also leaned heavily on a left of center activist court system to impose their will over the will of the people. Recently California Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have erased a popular vote of the people defining marriage as being between a man and a woman. In vetoing the bill, Schwarzenegger cited the arrogance of a legislature which would so easily try to overturn the will of the people of California. Several states have amended their constitutions in order to define and defend traditional marriage. The votes in these states have not been close but in several instances, activist courts have stepped in to derail the will of the people in favor of elevated status for homosexuality. South Caro-lina will vote on Nov. of 2006 on whether to change our state constitution to include a definition of marriage as being solely between a man and a woman outlaw special civic union's between homosexual partners. One can understand how a leftist court could try to legislate homosexual rights from the bench. However, is mind blowing to think that a supposedly conservative House of Representatives with a clear Republican majority would allow such a bill to pass. The vote wasn't even close… 223 have voted in favor with 199 voting against. According to Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council believed prospects of this bill passing in the Senate are improving everyday. Perking said, I'd like to say, we are in an uphill battle and believed homosexual movement and their supporters staff in Congress are gaining ground". Nowhere is the battle for Christian worldview more evident than the struggle over the definition of marriage and the attempts of those on the left to make homosexuality a protected minority right under the law. God's word is not ambiguous or nebulous concerning this issue. The apostle Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit told the Church in Rome: "Therefore God gave them over to the lust of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator. Who is blessed forever, Amen. For this reason God gave them”.

There is no doubt that by the end of the year we will have a federal bill outlawing Christ-ian religion and the Christian Bible as it deals with human behavior. We are a lost nation at large with the church lost and misled. I applaud the above article by Tony Beam but I resent the fact that he implied earlier that Christianity is based on being a Republican and being pro-war. Two weeks ago he wrote an article condemning all anti-war protesters as being unpatriotic liberal Democrats. The faulty notion that Christians are Republicans is a trick of the devil, true Christians are neither Republican or Democrat from what I observe. The woman on the scarlet colored beast of Revelation Chapter 17 is a clear indication of the church in bed with the world and politics. Theres a number of bills under consideration that would give special protection to g-a-y-s and Zionists yet it does not provide for other Americans. This legislation termed as hate crimes will serve to imprison Christian people largely willing to preach the gospel and the concentration camps will be full of genuine Christian people. Continuing "God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and the same way also the man abandoned the natural function of the women and burned in their desire for one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error" (Romans 1:24-27 NASV). "Are we now fast approaching the day in Amer-ica where I could keep prosecuted for simply quoting the Word of God? What other pass-ages might be considered h-a-t-e speech? Will one day child molesters and murderers be protected as a class of people worthy of rights status? And what about the whole idea of h-a-t-e crimes legislation? How can anyone know what it in the heart or mind of another person? My mother always told me the thought police would show up one day ... I just never believed they would show up in my lifetime". Written by Tony Beam.