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BELOW ARE TWELVE REASONS AFANWPA HAS COMPILED AS TO WHY PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE MEMBERS SHOULD VOTE 'NO' ON H.B. 1493 -- HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION:
TWELVE
REASONS TO VOTE 'NO'
ON HB 1493
2.) GAY ON GAY ASSAULTS ARE MUCH MORE
PREVALENT THAN SO-CALLED 'HATE CRIMES':
Homosexual activists David Island and Patrick Letellier --
co-editors of the National Lesbian & Gay Domestic Violence Network
Newsletter -- write in their book, Men Who Beat the Men who Love
Them, that violence is a primary health problem for individuals
involved in homosexual behavior ranking behind only AIDS for males,
cancer for females, and drug abuse for both. Island and Letellier write:
"The probability of violence occurring in a gay couple is
mathematically double the probability of that in a heterosexual
couple…we believe as many as 650,000 gay men may be victims of
domestic violence each year in the United States."
(page 14) "The
truth of the matter is, however, that you are much more likely to be
injured by someone you love than by a gay-basher on the street. In fact,
research indicates that between 25-33% of us will experience domestic
abuse in our lifetimes," according to the web site of Community
United Against Violence, a San Francisco group that describes itself as
"the most comprehensive lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender domestic
violence program in the nation."
http://www.cuav.org/dv.htm
3.) HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION DEEMS SOME VICTIMS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OTHERS: Gay author Andrew Sullivan noted in 2001 the vast difference in media coverage of two murders: that of homosexual Matthew Shepard, covered in 3,007 stories in the month after the killing, and that of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising - raped and killed by a homosexual couple in 1998 - mentioned in only 46 stories in the following month. Sullivan concludes that this is a logical consequence of hate-crimes rhetoric -- some deaths are worth more than others.
4.) THIS BILL IS TOO VAGUE: What does 'actual' or 'perceived' sexual orientation mean?
5.) 'GENDER IDENTITY':
Openly gay congressman Barney Frank has
opposed adding the phrase "gender identity" to legislation
because he knows radical transgenders will demand that men who think
they are women be allowed to use the women's restrooms and, in the
workplace, demand to be allowed to use women's showers.
6.) "MOST
INCLUSIVE HATE CRIMES BILL IN THE COUNTRY":
that is what the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, the
organization that drafted this bill, has to say about it.
That can only mean trouble for Pennsylvania's traditional
families. The traditional
family is the foundation of this state and nation, if the foundation is
destroyed . . . . . .
7.) WHY
HIJACK AN AGRICULTURAL VANDALISM BILL?
If this bill is so good for the citizens of Pennsylvania, why
take a completely unrelated bill, gut it of its original language and
attempt to sneak through a bill giving homosexuals special rights? New language, same bill number -- strange!!!
8.) THE REAL PURPOSE BEHIND ADDING
'ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED SEXUAL ORIENTATION' AND 'GENDER IDENTITY' IS TO
SILENCE THOSE WHO DISAGREE WITH THE HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE:
On September 11, 2002 a pastor in Bethlehem, PA, while taking
part in an ecumenical service, said many people had asked him why God
had not stopped the terrorist attacks of a year ago.
He said he would turn the question around and ask them, 'Where
were you when God needed you, when prayer was taken out of schools and
we started allowing same-sex marriages?"
Members of the gay community have accused him of "spiritual
violence" because of that statement.
It appears that the true purpose of this 'hate crimes'
legislation is to silence those who oppose the homosexual lifestyle.
Where are our First Amendments rights of free speech when we
cannot speak freely in this country of what the Bible says about
homosexuality?
9.) APPROVING
PEDOPHILIA?: Men who
are "exclusively homosexual" -- only
2 percent of the total male population -- are responsible for 21
percent of child molestation cases involving little boys, this finding
by one of the nation's leading experts on pedophilia, Dr. Gene G. Abel,
indicates that exclusively homosexual men are ten times more likely per
capita to molest little boys than are other men.
Recently the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal has been and
continues to be in the news. A
recent LA Times survey showed 15% of priests identify as homosexual. Big Brothers/Big Sisters, who in July mandated that all their
affiliates allow homosexual to be Big Brothers, is already facing the
same problems as the Catholic Church.
Just last month a Big Brother in Phoenixville, PA was accused of
molesting his Little Brother.
10.) GIVING YOUR STAMP OF APPROVAL UPON A PUBLIC HEALTH RISK? The Centers for Disease Control reports in their December 2001 HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report that once again the top exposure category for AIDS is "Men Who Have Sex With Men" at 368,971 cases. This is followed by second place "Injecting Drug Use" at 201,326. In this report Pennsylvania has the distinction of having 'jumped' two places and we are now number six in the nation in the number of cumulative AIDS compared to number eight as of June 2000. The Centers for Disease Control warns that men involved in homosexual behavior "have large numbers of anonymous partners, which can result in rapid, extensive transmission of sexuality transmitted diseases." Another CDC report "confirms that young bisexual men are a 'bridge' for HIV transmission to women." There is no doubt that those engaged in homosexual sex pose a public health risk.