Attack on Californians a 'hate crimes' preview?
Report documents assault on freedoms of speech, religion

Posted: May 15, 2009
8:09 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


An example of attacks on Christians in California by homosexuals upset over their support for traditional marraige

If you want a preview of America under a federal "hate crimes" plan, just look at the attacks on majority Californians when the Proposition 8 state constitutional definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman only was approved in November, according to a coming report from Coral Ridge Ministries.

Robert Knight, a senior writer for the ministry, called the plan that already has been approved by the U.S. House and now is pending in the Senate, "perhaps the greatest challenge to the freedoms of speech, religion and assembly that we've ever seen."

The ministry's May 17 Corral Ridge Hour will report on the growing hostility towards advocates of traditional marriage and how the "hate crime" plan will inspire more abuse from homosexual radicals.

For a limited time, by special arrangement through WND, for only $10.95 members of the public can send 100 individually addressed letters to each senator by overnight mail. Each letter is individually "signed" by the sender. The letters ask for a written response and call for opposition to the bill, including by filibuster if necessary.

Cited in the report is an incident immediately following the 2008 election, in which a majority of Californians chose to define in their state constitution marriage as being between a man and a woman only.

An angry mob of homosexual activists in Southern California attacked an elderly bespectacled woman carrying a cross, then shouted her down as she tried to explain during a television interview her defense of the state's new marriage amendment.

"WE SHOULD FIGHT! WE SHOULD FIGHT!" screams one protester as the woman, identified as Phyllis Burgess, stands calmly with a reporter waiting to be interviewed.

A video of the attack is linked here and has been embedded below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VziklUbt ... r_embedded

A cross Burgess was carrying was knocked from her hands, then stomped on the ground. Even the reporter was baffled by the aggressive protesters.

"She just wants to express her viewpoint, sir," she tells a protester who was waving his arms in her face.

The Coral Ridge report also cites the vicious and obscene attacks on Miss California, Carrie Prejean, who was asked by a homosexual activist judge during the national competition for her personal views on marriage. She responded with an acknowledgement of America's freedom to choose, then said her own belief was that marriage is between a man and a woman.

The response was a series of vicious name-calling attacks on her.

That attitude, Knight said, will be emboldened under a "hate crime" law.


Homosexual activist Perez Hilton calling Miss California an obscene name

"Seeing is believing. Perez Hilton berating Miss California is worth a thousand words," Knight said. "[You can] see what the guy is all about and what the gay movement will be like if they triumph. It should send a shiver down every spine in America."

Gary Cass, president of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, joins Knight on the program. He cites other instances of vandalism on churches, physical attacks on Christians, even a senior citizen being punched in the face because her yard held a "Yes on 8" sign.

Also featured will be "The War Against Christianity," a sermon by the late D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge founder.

More than 4,000 people already have sent 400,000-plus letters to the Senate expressing their concerns over the "Hate Crimes" plan, and the program has been extended indefinitely while the Senate has the plan pending.

A hearing on the pending "hate crimes" plan, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, already approved by the U.S. House as H.R. 1913 and pending in the Senate as S. 909, is expected in the Senate Judiciary Committee soon. It's been described by Shawn D. Akers, policy analyst with Liberty Counsel, as a bill to create penalties against "victims" who were chosen based on an "actual or perceived ... sexual orientation, gender identity."

Many have dubbed it the "Pedophile Protection Act," and Reps. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, and Steve King, R-Iowa, have explained how they tried to have majority Democrats in Congress define "sexual orientation" in the bill – and were refused.

They also tried to add an amendment that would state that pedophiles were not, in fact, protected under the law, and Democrats again voted to reject that idea.

King explained it's part of a national effort by homosexual activists not to just have the freedom to choose their lifestyle, but to be able to demand approval and likewise condemn those who don't agree with homosexual behavior.

First, he said, comes the so-called "hate crimes" law. Then will come the employment non-discrimination concept that says "thou shalt hire people of these proclivities." Finally, there would come the imposition of nation-wide same-sex marriage combined with speech limits banning any criticism of it, restrictions that already are in place in Canada.

Gohmert pointed out that Christians and their pastors need especially to be worried because of the bull's-eye being painted on them by homosexuals.

He said while the "hate crimes" bill says its provisions shouldn't be used against religious statements, there's an important word that follows that provision: "Unless."

That's unless "the evidence relates to that offense," he said.

And under existing federal law, someone who "induces" a crime can be tried, convicted and sentenced as the principal. He said that leaves open pastors and Christians to be prosecuted should someone who commits a crime claim to have heard them speaking against homosexuality.

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