A warning must be given to those who begin to read this article. The comparisons used more than likely won’t set well with the liberal crowd and they may in fact deem what they read hate speech. So be it, but the truth is the truth and if the truth is hate to them, then they have a severe problem with reality.

We have entered into a mind set in recent years that says that anything certain individuals or groups don’t like must be called hate speech. A Pennsylvania law covering hate speech was struck down because it violated the Pennsylvania Constitution. Eleven people were charged under authority of that ill conceived law for preaching the gospel to homosexuals at a coming out event. They were pointing out the very thing that Paul wrote to Timothy: 9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10  For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.  (I Timothy 1:9-11) In the mind of the perverted, plus those who only want to get along, those scriptures are hate speech.

In order for evil to gain ground, truth must be stifled, if not eliminated. That law in effect was designed to eliminate free speech by erecting a barrier that would stifle it to the point of elimination, without declaring free speech illegal except when directed at protected classes of people. Now we’ll go to the comparison that a few readers may not like.

Throughout history, tyrants have used laws to stop free speech, especially that which told the truth. Marx and Lenin set in motion the system of Communism designed to ultimately eliminate the gospel; Stalin made preaching and free speech of all types punishable by imprisonment in gulags and by death. Hitler stifled free speech, eliminating any speech that threatened his reign of terror. In like manner, the Pennsylvania law was no better than the attempts throughout history to stifle speech that the ungodly, decadent, Hell bound sinners don’t want to hear. The politicians who conceive such laws and the governors who sign them are no better than the tyrants who spread their liberty denying reign over their countries. Police officers who participate in the enforcement of the laws, arresting peaceful people while allowing the real perpetrators of violence to go Scott Free (as happened in Pennsylvania: After a confrontation with a group called the Pink Angels, described by protesters as "a militant mob of homosexuals," the Christians were arrested and spent a night in jail. (Source WND) are no better than the jack-booted thugs that roamed the Soviet Union and Germany trying to eliminate opposition.

One of the most chilling parts of that now defunct law follows: The provisions adopted under the failed procedure increased penalties for crimes based on what the criminal was thinking, specifying the additional penalties for "actual or perceived … ancestry, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity." The penalties for this thinking are the chilling part. George Orwell was only wrong on the year about thought crimes. The First Amendment ensures the right of free speech and that also means one can have free thoughts which precede thinking no matter the content of that thought. Those arrested thought and still do believe that homosexuality is wrong. Such thoughts and preaching are based in the Bible, containing the Word of God that the sinners who practice debauchery despise. The purpose of that law was to stop the reminding of those who deny God that they are living a life that is decadent, filthy, and morally corrupt.

By declaring truth evil; by trashing free speech through laws, the purveyors of filth can shove their immorality off on decent people. That is the only way they can prevail against God. It is necessary to do as Paul told Timothy (II Timothy 4:2-5) Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry, That is what the people preaching that day did and they prevailed over the evil directed over them. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)  In Sorting It Out, the answer is no one including a tyrannical government.

© 11-17-2007 DEC

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