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Christian lawyer wants LGBT excluded from anti-lynching bill.

  

Category:  Religion & Ethics

Via:  epistte  •  5 years ago  •  16 comments

Christian lawyer wants LGBT excluded from anti-lynching bill.

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For more than a century, there have been a number of unsuccessfully attempts in the US to make lynching a federal crime.

Well, success was at last attained last December when the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act was passed unanimously by the the Senate.

The Act outlines the specific act of lynching – a mob killing without legal authority – and would add lynching to the federal list of hate crimes.

This has gravely displeased lawyer Mat Staver , a nobody until he hit the big time with his involvement with the notorious Kim Davis case . That made him a media darling, and a hero in the eyes of conservative Christians. Ever since the posturing ninnyhammer has been poking his nose into a variety of issues involving LGBT rights with twisted facts


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epistte
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1  seeder  epistte    5 years ago

This is another example of religious morality because religious conservatives want to exclude LGBT people from a federal law that makes lynching a hate crime. I wasn't aware that lynching people is now considered to be a religious freedom. I read this on a friends Facebook page a few hours ago and thought that it was fake news, but after a few minutes of  it is actually true.

In which of the four gospels did Jesus tell his followers to act in this manner? Why should religious conservatives and churches who support them be rewarded with a tax exemption for this abhorrent behavior?

 
 
 
Gordy327
Professor Expert
1.1  Gordy327  replied to  epistte @1    5 years ago
I wasn't aware that lynching people is now considered to be a religious freedom.

Just wait until a theist makes that claim when being arrested for lynching. 

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
2  JBB    5 years ago

Christ would abhor modern day evangelical small c christian fundie haters...

 
 
 
epistte
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2.1  seeder  epistte  replied to  JBB @2    5 years ago

How can a rational person say that making it a federal hate crime law to hang someone because of their gender identity or sexual orientation is a violation of their religious beliefs? Should someone not be held accountable for killing someone by vigilante hanging?

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
3  Ender    5 years ago

Love the picture. The cat don't give a shit.  Haha

Glad they passed it. One cheer for republicans, I guess.

The lawyer can pound sand.

I have donated to the Matthew Shepard foundation.

Erase Hate

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
3.1  seeder  epistte  replied to  Ender @3    5 years ago

Why should a rational society tolerate behavior of hatred hiding by conservative religious belief?

The reason he’s so pissed off with the new act is that it includes protections for LGBT people as well as ethnic minorities. In addition to “race, colour, religion, and national origin”,  the law also covers crimes against “gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability” motivated by hatred.

This, says Staver, is the thin edge of a wedge that would give gays protections in other areas:

The old saying is once that camel gets the nose in the tent, you can’t stop them from coming the rest of the way in. And this would be the first time that you would have in federal law mentioning gender identity and sexual orientation, as part of this anti-lynching bill.

Liberty Counsel has previously admitted helping state Republican lawmakers to draft anti-LGBT legislation, as well as attempting to push anti-LGBT laws around the world.

In designating Liberty Counsel as a hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center points out:

With the expansion of equal rights for LGBT people, especially, the Liberty Counsel has come into their own, working to attempt to ensure that Christians can continue to engage in anti-LGBT discrimination in places of business under the guise of  ‘religious liberty’. Through lawsuits and its annual Awakening conference in Orlando, the Counsel attempts to enforce the idea that Christian beliefs and law trump all other law.

Staver told fundamentalist Christian news outlet OneNewsNow that he is lobbying lawmakers in the House of Representatives to have the LGBT language removed from the law.

 
 
 
Ender
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3.1.1  Ender  replied to  epistte @3.1    5 years ago

Sad (sick) that someone would want to spend their life trying to make some people less than.

Seems to be completely against what I was taught Christianity was.

 
 
 
Gordy327
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3.1.2  Gordy327  replied to  Ender @3.1.1    5 years ago
Sad (sick) that someone would want to spend their life trying to make some people less than.

Some people just want to feel or be superior to others, and want the law or government to back them up in that endeavor. Those same people also complain about equal rights for others. They have a need to feel special.

 
 
 
epistte
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3.1.3  seeder  epistte  replied to  Gordy327 @3.1.2    5 years ago
Some people just want to feel or be superior to others, and want the law or government to back them up in that endeavor. Those same people also complain about equal rights for others. They have a need to feel special.

They need to preserve and protect the current social hierarchy where they are close to the top. 

 
 
 
Gordy327
Professor Expert
3.1.4  Gordy327  replied to  epistte @3.1.3    5 years ago

Indeed.

 
 
 
Phoenyx13
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4  Phoenyx13    5 years ago
Staver told fundamentalist Christian news outlet  OneNewsNow  that he is lobbying lawmakers in the House of Representatives to have the LGBT language removed from the law.

well it certainly must be the " Godly " thing to do or this religious lawyer wouldn't do it, right ? He must have learned his " objective morality " from the bible or God himself, right ? jrSmiley_78_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
5  Kavika     5 years ago
Staver told fundamentalist Christian news outlet  OneNewsNow  that he is lobbying lawmakers in the House of Representatives to have the LGBT language removed from the law.

Why he is at it why not have the ethnic minorities removed from the law. We've all heard the expression ''bible thumpers''. It would seem that this guy was thumped quite a few times on the noggin with that bible.

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
5.1  seeder  epistte  replied to  Kavika @5    5 years ago
Why he is at it why not have the ethnic minorities removed from the law. We've all heard the expression ''bible thumpers''. It would seem that this guy was thumped quite a few times on the noggin with that bible.

You would think that they would also target other religions that might be in competition, or is that too obvious?

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Principal
6  Perrie Halpern R.A.    5 years ago

In this day an age, no one should be lynched. End of story. 

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
6.1  seeder  epistte  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @6    5 years ago
In this day an age, no one should be lynched. End of story. 

But they have religious beliefs that some people are inherently bad. 

How is conservative Christians lynching LGBT people better than ISIL throwing them off the roof?

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
7  seeder  epistte    5 years ago

Why does it seem that this thread is kryptonite to the crowd of Christian conservatives who pray about their supposed loss of religious freedom due to transgendered rights and LGBT marriage equality?   It would seem that they believe that decorating trees with people is also a religious belief.

 
 

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