Anti-gay activists appeal ruling on hate crimes law

Meanwhile, the act has been in effect for almost a year and a half. Where is the government keeping all the locked up pastors? Surely, based on all the hysteria and vitriol there must be preachers languishing in incarceration. I’d like to know. Are they at Gitmo perchance? Or did we outsource their imprisonment to Egypt?

I’m straight, a retired lawyer, a values and economic conservative on most issues, think my religious, economic and legal backgroiund and experience proves I’m right and some others wrong on some others, and, because of birth trauma, suffer from a congenital nystagmus condition which causes involuntary eye movements etc., as well as coordination and depth perception problems, as a result of which I have been subjected to terroristic threats and assault by violent fools who insisted to others present, on a city bus, etc., that they could tell I was “gay” by looking at me. Another lawyer who wasn’t “gay” either was similarly assaulted because of such fools’ misreading of his illness, which I think was MS or ALS. Members of one jury before whom I tried a criminal case said that they had been going to vote my client “not guily” but had changed their votes to “guilty” after noticing my “shifty” eyes. Back when, or if, “gays” might not have been treated fairly in the legal system, such a federal law might have been ne3eded, but I have known enough “gay” prosecutors, judges, and other politicians of both parties to doubt that it would normally be proper to take such cases out of the state system. Congress passed a similarly politcally popular church burning law and I saw decisions on when to use or not use it in my county, where at least one of three church fires was electrical and one two black on black, turn on pure politics after certain forces tried to make a big racial deal and did encourage another arson near and affecting power at my law office. There are cases, racial or otherwise group based, and where local corruption or bias is involved, where the federal authorities should step in but the fact is that the federal authorities look the other way too often where authorities or politicians are involved and guilty either of dereliction of duty or active wrongdoing.
The worst problem with the federal hate crimes law is that Congress rejected an amendment to make clear that it did not create civil or criminal liability for expressing traditional scriptural beliefs concerning sexual behaviors, raising the real danger that it could be construed to make that a crime, chilling free religious expression and free speech.
It was not the Christians but the “gay” activists who have threatened and sometimes carried out organized economic boycotts, threats, actual rioting and assaults, and other offenses and torts in retaliation for the other side’s position on issues like California’s Proposition 8. If you reject the fundamental Biblical commands upon which most Anglo-American law is ultimately based, on that or other grounds, ultimately you wind up with no protection for anyone’s fundamental rights, starting with those crimes based upon the Judeo-Christian command “Thou shalt not kill {murder and manslaughter].”
I have had attorney-client and other privileged and confidential relationships with several “gay” people, and cooperated with otherss as friends, in politics, etc. I happen to know, as well as anyone unwilling to participate in “gay” sex can, that a lot of Republican and Democratic politicians and officials who claimed to be straight were not, among other lies, and that the people on both sides of certain litigation over the Texas sodomy law, leading up to Lawrence which appears to have been manufactured, as parties and counsel, were all “gay” and the whole thing was a rigged game. In the course of representing a fifteen year old kid in a “gay on gay” murder case, I met with one avowedly “gay” elected official and others and, while there were some relevant facts we never did learn, we discovered some things that would shock you.