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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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?
Just wait until a theist makes that claim when being arrested for lynching.
Christ would abhor modern day evangelical small c christian fundie haters...
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?
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
Why should a rational society tolerate behavior of hatred hiding by conservative religious belief?
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.
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.
Indeed.
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 ?
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?
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?
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.