Little tiny terrors watching me eat…

Shrimp.

And they didn’t get any. Meowza got the closest but I wouldn’t let him eat my dinner. Sides, I had just fed them. Greedy cats.

However, I did pet them. They are soooooooo cute.

This absolutely floors me, not that I didn’t expect it, but that I didn’t expect him to do it.

Liberal GOP Sens. Orrin Hatch, Utah, and Gordon Smith, Ore., are planning to bring up a new version of the Kennedy-Smith federal “hate crimes” law, which has been filed as an amendment to the defense authorization bill.

Sneaking it in, first he wanted to blow up our computers, now he wants to empower those that would outlaw our scriptures. Why Orrin why?

Proponents of the Hatch-Smith bill insist that their version seeks to empower state officials to better handle “hate crimes” and that it mitigates the more radical aspects of the Kennedy-Smith bill. But it still endorses the concept of “hate crimes,” greatly expands federal power and will lead inevitably to “thought crimes.”

How would it mitigate it, this I have to hear.

But the real danger of “hate crime” laws is that they criminalize thoughts and beliefs. The law should concern itself only with actions. Prosecutors must prove intent, but examining underlying beliefs goes far beyond that.

Let’s go to the bottom line: The federal “hate crimes” bill lays the groundwork for persecution of Christians in this country.

Homosexual activists have redefined any opposition to homosexuality as “hate speech.” Laws already criminalize speech that incites violence. It’s easy to imagine a scenario in which any incident involving a homosexual can be blamed on people who have publicly opposed homosexual activism.

Here’s the clincher. There is precedent so it is not beyond the realm of possibility.

A “hate crimes” law can lead to “thought crime” as is found in totalitarian countries and increasingly in Western nations that have fallen into the trap.

In Canada and Sweden, it is now a “hate crime” to criticize homosexuality in any fashion. Canadian broadcasters are forbidden to air any critical discussion of homosexuality. Private citizens and public officials have been hauled before “human rights” commissions and threatened with fines and jail time. In Sweden, a pastor was arrested at his church after he read Bible verses about homosexuality.

The “gay” lobby is frank about its desire to persecute Christians in America in just the same way, and this “hate crimes” bill is a key step in that strategy.

During the Supreme Court hearings in 2000 on the Boy Scout case, pro-life Rev. Rob Shenk was sitting in the audience next to the White House liaison for “gay” issues. Thinking the pastor was a fellow liberal, the woman whispered, “We’re not going to win this case, but that’s OK. Once we get ‘hate crime’ laws on the books, we’re going to go after the Scouts and all the other bigots.”

This isn’t a slippery slope; it’s a luge ride toward totalitarianism.

If you value the freedom to speak our minds, you might want to let public officials know in no uncertain terms how you feel about politicians who aid and abet the effort to create “thought crimes.”

Does Orrin want to muzzle his own church leaders cause that’s exactly what this bill will do. Don’t think it will happen here. Precedent, this time in Canada.

In a disturbing example of the implications of this bill, CCIC cited a Saskatchewan court case in which the Bible was determined to be hate literature. There, the Canadian court upheld a fine against a Saskatoon newspaper publisher and a man who placed an ad listing Bible verses about homosexuality.

This could be next.

Bruce Clemenger, president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, after the recent passage of the Canadian hate-crimes legislation, said, “While opposing the promotion of hatred against anyone, we are deeply concerned about the chilling effect this legislation may have on the legitimate expression of religious belief. We as a religious community want to ensure that the purpose of prohibiting hate speech does not criminalize the legitimate expression of religious belief, the resulting views of morality nor religious texts.”

The Canadian law has created concern that religious materials may be subject to interception, seizure and forfeiture as ‘hate’ materials by Canada Post on entrance to the country.

Following in Saudia Arabia’s footsteps, I can see it now, no Bibles allowed in the country. Don’t think we aren’t immune. It could happen here, thanks to one Orrin Hatch. Example, this could be outlawed under his proposed legislation as it excludes, by definition, gay families. Refresher, family values is considered hate speech at least in California. John F’n Kerry has no lock on going against his religion in matters of politics. Orrin is right there with him. Idiot, both chuches are within their rights to excommunicate them both.