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What Can You Do About the Hate Crimes Legislation?
Operation Save America • 2/22/2009
 What Can You Do About the Hate Crimes Legislation?
It is imperative that Bible believing Christians do something to speak and stand against such a bills as H.R. 256 and H.R. 262. We must never give in to any type tyranny that would try to silence the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Below are a few ways that you, as a God fearing Christian, can make a difference!
• Contact Washington D.C.
• Write your local newspaper • Come to Washington and stand for the Truth in the streets! “Call Washington” “All powers of government, legislative, executive and judicial, derive, under God, from the people.”
Elected public servants have the responsibility (under God) to regulate laws that adhere to the original intent of the United States Constitution. Our lawmakers are also representatives of our nation’s citizens, and as public servants, they must give ear to those whom they serve.
It is of the utmost importance that you contact your elected officials (those that are your voice)! in Washington D.C. to state your objection to H.R. 256 and H.R. 262.
Here are a few simple steps:
1. Call Your Congressman
Call Toll-Free:
• 1-877-851-6437 (toll free)
• 1-202-225-3121 (toll call) If you are unsure who your Congressman is, the switchboard operator will assist you by asking what your zip code is. Once they locate your Congressman, they will transfer you.
When speaking with your representative, please do the following:
• Speak to them with respect
• State your name • State the town of your residence • State your purpose in calling: "Please do not vote for both hate crimes bills, H.R. 256 and H.R. 262. We already have laws that protect people from violence. Hate laws have taken away free speech in Canada and many European countries." 2. Call the members of the House Judiciary Committee
Members of the House Committee on the Judiciary
Democrats: • John Conyers (Mich.), Chairman • Howard L. Berman (Calif.) • Rick Boucher (Va.) • Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.) • Robert C. Scott (Va.) • Melvin L. Watt (N.C.) • Zoe Lofgren (Calif.) • Sheila Jackson-Lee (Texas) • Maxine Waters (Calif.) • Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) • William D. Delahunt (Mass.) • Robert Wexler (Fla.) • Linda Sanchez (Calif.) • Steve Cohen (Tenn.) • Hank Johnson (Ga.) • Luis Gutierrez (Ill.) • Brad Sherman (Calif.) • Charles Gonzalez (Texas) • Anthony D. Weiner (N.Y.) • Adam B. Schiff (Calif.) • Dan Maffei (N.Y) • Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) • Pedro Pierluisi (P.R.) Republicans:
• Lamar S. Smith (Texas), Ranking Member
• Jim Sensenbrenner (Wis.) • Howard Coble (N.C.) • Elton Gallegly (Calif.) • Bob Goodlatte (Va.) • Dan Lungren (Calif.) • Ted Poe (Texas) • Darrell Issa (Calif.) • J. Randy Forbes (Va.) • Steve King (Iowa) • Jason Chaffetz (Utah) • Trent Franks (Ariz.) • Louie Gohmert (Texas) • Jim Jordan (Ohio) • Tom Rooney (Fla.) • Gregg Harper (Miss.) 3. If you prefer to write your congressman, below is a sample letter that you may use:
Dear Senator / Representative ________________:
Please do NOT vote for the federal hate crimes bills, HR 256 and HR 262. On Oct. 8, 2004, 11 Christians were arrested and jailed for 21 hours under Pennsylvania's anti-hate law. They had been peacefully preaching at a "Gay Pride" parade. While "Anti-Hate" legislation gives the impression of protecting the civil rights of minorities from bias-motivated violence or intimidation, it actually leads to loss of free speech. Under Canada's anti-hate law, it is now illegal to criticize homosexual behavior over the airwaves, in print, or in public. The consequences: large fines and imprisonment. The FBI's annual "Uniform Crime Report" consistently shows that so-called "hate crimes" constitute only about 1/15th of 1% of all crime in America. Of this 1/15th of 1%, most have not been adjudicated but are called "crime" because of the conclusions of investigating police. Actually, most are "suspected bias crimes incidents," not proven crimes. Such infinitesimal numbers of proven hate crimes does not justify unprecedented, massive intrusion of the federal government into local law enforcement. Respectfully- Write a Letter to the Editor of Your local Newspaper
Writing letters to the editor of your local newspaper is a great tool to achieve your goal in raising public awareness about HR 256 and HR 262 because of the following:
You may use the information in the sample letter to your Congressman as a basis for what you would like to convey to the people in your community.
Come to Washington and stand for the Truth in the streets! “The legislative powers of government reach to actions only, not to opinions.”
Thomas Jefferson Civil government is due our prayers, taxes, tribute, and submission to lawful authority. They are not due, however, our faith, consciences, or thoughts. No government official has the authority to determine our beliefs, regulate our faith, or punish our thoughts.
We will appeal to our government to back off, stand down, and return to their lawful jurisdictions. We must tell them to get out of our churches, quit policing our thoughts, and stop trying to sear our consciences by their persistence of framing mischief by law. This is where every liberty-loving Christian should stand, and America should do no less!!!
We must be ready, at a moment’s notice, to obey God rather than men and crush this unholy, unconstitutional, thinly veiled lie with all of the force of the public proclamation of the Gospel of Christ. We are engaged in a battle over who is Lord and whose laws reign. Is it God or is it man? Is it life or is it death? Is it blessing or is it curse? Every man must choose. There is no “common ground.”
Prepare yourselves, “…in order that satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.” 2 Corinthians 2:11.
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