Pro-homosexual Legislature in US Congress Will Threaten Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion

I have posted the opening paragraphs of the article, the whole article is available here.

If this legislature passes the possiblities of banning free religious speech in America are paramount. If you would like to preach and teach that homosexuality and corss-dressing is a peversion which God hates you may be violating laws that protect homosexuals from hate-crimes. This legislature shows how the evangelical church is failing to affect the secular government in the United States, regardless of the significant involvement of the Christian Right in politics. Freedom must achieved in the spiritual realm in order to affect change on government. Free speech in America has already been threatened by self-censorship when the right of homosexuals to be overtly homosexual are in question. It has become publically unacceptable to even think of "same gender sexual attraction" as perversion, not to even speak of saying it publically. See my letter to Bill O'Reilly above.

Gay rights advances likely in Congress
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer2 hours, 45 minutes ago (Feb. 24,
2007)

Anti-gay bias has flared up in Hollywood and pro basketball recently, and soon the topic will be thrust dramatically into a new forum — a reshaped Congress likely to pass the first major federal gay-rights bills.

Wary conservative leaders, as well as gay-rights advocates, share a belief that at least two measures will win approval this year: a hate-crimes bill that would cover offenses motivated by anti-gay bias, and a measure that would outlaw workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Also on the table — although with more doubtful prospects — will be a measure to be introduced Wednesday seeking repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bans openly gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the military.

All three measures surfaced in previous sessions of Congress, at times winning significant bipartisan backing but always falling short of final passage. This year, with Democrats now in control and many Republicans likely to join in support, the hate-crimes and workplace bills are widely expected to prevail.

"With liberals in control, there's a good possibility they'll both pass," said Matt Barber, a policy director with the conservative group Concerned Women for America. "They're both dangerous to freedom of conscience, to religious liberties, to free speech."

If approved by Congress, the bills would head to the White House. Activists on both the left and right are unsure whether President Bush would sign or veto them.