Liberal activists have once again used the Defence Authorisation Bill to enact policies that are detrimental to the country.

Two years ago, a defence funding bill was loaded with an unrelated 40 percent minimum wage hike to appease liberal activists such as ACORN and union bosses. That has led to the current economic malaise, as corporations find this country to be uncompetitive against Asia because of the severe minimum wage hike, and have decided jobs will not be placed in the United States, but in lower-wage countries such as India, the PRC, Mexico and other rising giants.

Real unemployment is over 15 percent nationally, with much of this area into the 20 percent range, reminding me of the president’s dance at the White House with Mexican pop star Thalía, whose song “Echa Pa’lante” blasted the PRI in the 1997 Mexican parliamentary elections for among other things creating a high unemployment atmosphere.

Our legislators were never informed, and the policy was quietly stuffed by liberal activists such as the dictatorial Nancy Pelosi, who ensured the elected legislator Mr. Wilson was never heard (which led to his comments on the floor in front of the president).

Now, another defence authorization bill was used by liberal activists to stuff absurd law into the country that would have never passed except for other states running over us again. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Act, which would never have passed, was loaded into the current bill as a “memorial” to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy to force special protection under law.

The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence starts, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Unfortunately, the new law, signed by President Obama in a special event with homosexual special-rights activists, destroys that sentence. Homosexuals now receive special protections and are not created equal, but are given special rights, while others are punished to reward these special deviants.

This has been proven in Sweden, where pastor Ake Green was indicted for a sermon that called homosexuality a sin and in Canada, where two notable Stateside radio shows once heard in the area but not any longer – Focus on the Family and Dr. Laura Schlessinger – must be edited (and cleared by censors) to purge all references to sinful behavior as dictated by a federal commission, and also where sharing truth about the dangerous and deviant lifestyle that was listed on the American Psychiatric Association as a psychiatric disorder until activists ran roughshod in 1973 to remove it is declared a hate crime. Also, in Canada, a Catholic bishop was charged for a hate crime for defending teachings stating marriage is between one male and one female.

Attorney General Eric Holder has blatantly admitted that the new law can be used to punish speech – a violation of the First Amendment – that is not compliant with homosexual activists’ requests, and homosexuals have special protections but not Christians. Can you imagine Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Gordon Robertson, Franklin and Will Graham, and Laura Schlessinger all indicted under federal hate crimes laws for speaking the truth against sins on-air, which is what the new law can do?

Our Declaration of Independence is now under attack, since now, the president and Congress have declared that certain groups are created special with special rights not available to other people. When God’s word is declared illegal and the “gospel” of homosexual activists is now federal law, the doors have opened to more hazards.

That is another facet of the homosexual agenda being pushed by liberal activists with one foot already in the door: They want to eliminate the Defence of Marriage Act and eventually want both same-sex “marriage” legalized federally in the other 44 states where it is not (an episode of Sony Pictures Television’s The Newlywed Game 2009 (GSN) featured a celebrity show where one “couple” was a homosexual “married” couple married in 2008 when California courts dictated marriage before Proposition 8 properly reversed the judge’s call) and a new “Employment Non-Discrimination Act” that rewards “sexual orientation” as a protected employment class that would reward pedophiles. In fact, the newly signed law was called the “Pedophile Protection Act.” And ENDA, another Kennedy “legacy” bill, would further reward pedophiles since it would be a “sexual orientation,” and schools who refuse to hire pedophiles would be in violation of federal law if ENDA were passed.

How dangerous would it be for parents if schools, child-care centres, or other venues where children are involved had sexual predators and pedophiles working in the facilities, and the law rewards them and prohibits punishing them, as ENDA would do in cooperation with the Shepard-Byrd Hate Crimes Act of 2009?

Two years ago, we saw the price we had to pay with an absurd “pork” rider that killed our economy with a severe minimum wage hike as jobs moved overseas. Now we are seeing that our First Amendment rights and the Declaration of Independence are violated in the new Shepard-Byrd Hate Crimes Act of 2009. Both were stuffed into defense authorization bills.

In learning about this attack on Christians by passing the hate crime bill that rewards one class of sexual deviants while punishing other groups of people, let us remember this quote:

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Sadly, this is what has happened to our government with this new law that will pushing Christians in favor of rewarding sexual deviants.

-- Hou-Yin Chang, Orangeburg

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