by Michael G. Mickey
(4-24-09)

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but speaking or writing words that offend homosexuals? They may land me (or you) in jail, thanks to our leaders in Congress.

Continuing the site's coverage of H.R. 1913, which has, thus far, consisted of a commentary by Matt Barber and yours truly, evidence is continuing to mount that this legislation, being fast-tracked to becoming the law of the land thanks to a liberal Congress and White House, is potentially very threatening to Christians who are doing nothing more than saying homosexuality is a sin, something which is both true and a sign that the return of Jesus Christ is at hand as documented in Luke 17:28-30:

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed [them] all.

Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Lot lived in a place called Sodom, from which we today derive the word sodomy. This is what spiritual wickedness in high places doesn't want Christians pointing out to people and, it would appear, our Congress as well.

In a OneNewsNow.com article dated today, it is being reported that "hateful words" may soon be prosecutable if this legislation ends up passed into law - and it will be unless we get up in arms and pronto! This legislation is going to be voted on within a week so we need to get in touch with all our representatives in Congress TODAY concerning H.R. 1913. If we don't do so right now, I fear we're going to be placed in a position that may force us to make some very difficult decisions in the future - and require our government to build many more institutions to house the criminal element that is the Bible-believing, Word-upholding Church of Jesus Christ.

What will this legislation do?

If passed into law, it will add gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability to the list of protected categories under federal hate crimes law.

Threat or no threat?

Is this legislation truly going to pose a threat to Christians who merely express what the Bible says with no threat of violence or hatred added? It depends on who you ask - or believe.

John Conyers (D-Michigan), a co-sponsor of the measure, is quoted in the ONN article linked above as saying: "The bill only applies to bias-motivated violent crimes and does not impinge public speech or writing in any way."

So, no violence involved means no prosecution according to Conyers, but is that the case? Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) is quoted in the same article making a comment that leads me to believe there's cause for greater concern than Conyers is willing to admit (emphasis added mine):

"We also need to protect those potential victims who may be the recipients of hateful words or hateful acts, or even violent acts."

The way I read Sheila Jackson's comments, mere words deemed by a homosexual to be hateful may be enough to get one prosecuted for a hate crime.

Christians, I want you to read the last paragraph of the ONN article posted below very carefully if you think Satan's hand isn't all in this:

Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a former judge, offered several amendments that would have provided religious-freedom protections from hate crimes prosecution, but they were all rejected by Democrats on the Judiciary Committee.

Democrat John Conyers was, undoubtedly, present when Congressman Gohmert tried multiple times to ensure that religious freedom provisions were written into this bill before it progressed, but to no avail. Logically, if the Democrats were interested in protecting our constitutional right to freedom of religion, they wouldn't have minded addressing Congressman Gohmert's concerns to ensure that the local pastor down the street, for example, couldn't be prosecuted for condemning the sin of homosexuality, but they didn't. Why do you suppose that's true? Satan wants to silence the Church here in the last days and those who serve his will in Congress, be it intentional or below their level of consciousness, are willing to throw the Christian majority of this nation under the bus to appease the insecurities of the homosexual minority.

Bring it on!

Barely a day goes by when someone doesn't lash out at me, often using 'hateful words', concerning my faith in Jesus Christ and my belief in Bible prophecy, even as events like this continue to prove me right concerning all I express here in support of same. Is there a federal law on the books to ensure that my feelings are never hurt by mere words? No and there never will be, but you won't hear me bawling about how pitifully I'm treated, asking for the federal government to protect me from WORDS. Words don't hurt me, words don't scare me and the words of people who hold views in opposition to mine don't influence who I am at all. To my enemies I say, "You want to hurt me with words? Bring it on!"

Sure, words spoken to me and about me sting a bit occasionally, but I'm okay with that unless hateful words morph into threats of violence or actual crimes being committed against me. Anything less than that? Wouldn't that be constitutionally-protected freedom of speech? If a Muslim today writes me a nasty e-mail critical of my faith and the lifestyle I lead as a result of it? Isn't that his or her right? Certainly, unless that type of interaction rises to the level of harassment which there are laws in the individual states capable of remedying.

Readers, listen to me. If we don't get vocal - and I mean VOCAL - the Obama administration, in cahoots with the Democrat-led Congress, are going to strip us of all our constitutionally-protected rights one by one by one until this nation is either going to explode at the seams or collapse completely under the weight of God's judgment being cast down upon it.

In Leviticus 18, beginning one verse after the Lord commands that we are not to engage in homosexuality or bestiality, we are told that those activities defile not only a nation but the very land upon which that nation rests. Furthermore, in Leviticus 18:25, we read that once this sort of sin becomes rampant, the land will vomit out its inhabitants. In verse 26, the Lord advises that a nation isn't to knowingly permit a stranger passing through its lands to commit homosexuality or bestiality let alone its citizens and in verses 27 and 28? The Lord repeats Himself in stating these things defile a nation and warns against a nation permitting them, reminding us again that the land will vomit out its inhabitants if a nation overlooks His commands on this topic! Those words, ladies and gentleman, are not the words of Michael G. Mickey. Those are the words of the Most High God!

Liberals in Washington, consider yourselves warned! God is watching and He will keep His Word in the end. Continue in your efforts to accommodate homosexuality in defiance of the Word of God and see what happens! The United States of America will be destroyed as a direct result of your foolishness! And worst of all? It will be destroyed when there wasn't a great deal of a problem to begin with!

Over 300,000,000 Americans live in this great nation. Out of all those people, in spite of all the homosexual activism and gay pride being publicly expressed these days in town and city squares, parades, and in the parks of our lands, there were only 1,521 hate crimes committed against homosexuals last year. So what is our Democrat-led Congress doing? Trying its very best to broaden our laws to ensure that more homosexuals can claim they've been victimized to rally sympathy for them so they can publicly live their lifestyles, which God calls an abomination, without anyone so much as lifting a voice of criticism, whether that criticism is based on religious beliefs or simply the obvious which is that homosexuality is completely unnatural as even a cursory examination of human anatomy reveals.

The sexual organs of men are not compatible with those of other men. Ditto for the women. Even if we applied the issue of homosexuality to the whimsical theory of Darwinian evolution, the staggering numbers of homosexuals emerging today would blow the theory completely out of the water. How? It would demonstrate that human sexuality is evolving in a manner threatening to the survival of the species. Evolution isn't supposed to do that, is it? Not that I recall, but what do I know?

Well, another day, another rant. I'm done for now.

God bless you all and yes, I do pray God's blessings for all who read this, regardless of whether you agree with the words you've read here or disagree with them. I'm not an evil or angry man. I'm just reporting what is no longer deemed to be politically acceptable to be communicated which is that all mankind is accountable to God. We are accountable to God as individuals AND we're accountable to God as a nation, like it or not, believe it or not.

Disclaimer: Due to the fact our Department of Homeland Security views my Christian theology as radical and potentially extremist, I want to state for the record that I, Michael G. Mickey, am not in any manner endorsing nor soliciting any type of hatred against anyone. The same applies to any action of an illegal nature being committed against the government of the United States of America. What I am wholly supportive of, on the other hand, is Christians exercising their constitutionally-protected right to question the decision-making of our government presently calling the shots in Washington, D.C. and our constitutional right to acknowledge our government's utter incompetence in relation to prioritizing what needs to be addressed in our society and what definitely doesn't. The sort of critical opinions I've shared here were abundantly streaming from the Left and considered perfectly acceptable political and social dialogue throughout the years of the Bush administration and I hope they are now.