When it was first reported that Dale Mcalpine, a Christian street preacher in Britain, was arrested for saying that homosexuality is a sin, you know it was only a matter of time before the Religious Right in the US started using this incident to work up fears about how this is exactly what gays want to do to Christians here in America.
Liberty Counsel Cultural Affairs Analyst Matt Barber raised the warning that such cases will be seen more and more in America, too.
“We know that what’s happening in Europe and what’s happening in Canada offers us a window into the future of what will happen here in the United States,” he said. “The hate crimes laws and employment sexual orientation laws such as ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act here in the United States, have been the precursor to the more oppressive hate speech laws,” Barber explained.
“Make no mistake, those laws we have now for hate crimes and the more present danger with ENDA, these laws are the precursor in the U. S. for the same kind of criminalization of Christianity that’s happening in the U. K.,” Barber said.
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“Their goal is to silence any dissent and to silence under any penalty of law the Biblical recognition and expression of a traditional Judeo-Christian world view relative to sexual behavior and sexual morality,” Barber said.
He warned if unchecked, the radical homosexual lobby will ensure that the U.S. goes the same direction as Britain.
“We’ve seen the same kind of vague language and loopholes that are used to prosecute Mr. McAlpine in Great Britain show up in laws employed here in the United States to prosecute individuals for non-violent speech, for simply sharing a Biblical world view relative to sexual morality,” Barber said.
This WND article also contains audio of the entire interview with Barber, during which he also claims that after he first learned of this incident, he “started perusing a number of homosexual news sites and homosexual blogs” and found that “the majority of homosexuals and homosexual activists for this same kind of homophobia/hate speech persecution here in the United States” and goes on to say that this is exactly what the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Kevin Jennings, Chai Feldblum want to see happen in this country.
