“Hate Crimes” Already Being used for Religious Persecution

Jun 26, 2009 07:03

On August 30, 1568, Pope St. Pius V once judged homosexual priests with the following judgment:

"We establish that any priest or member of the clergy, either secular or regular, who commits such an execrable crime, by force of the present law be deprived of every clerical privilege, of every post, dignity and ecclesiastical benefit, and having been degraded by an ecclesiastical judge, let him be immediately delivered to the secular authority to be put to death."

That was his judicial opinion and not a threat to harm the priest.

In 2003, Pastor Åke Green delivered a sermon at his Pentecostal church in Borgholm, Sweden and said, "God says that homosexuals deserve execution,” and recited a previous judicial opinion of a sage that said, "We know God's righteous decree that those who live that way deserve death."

Again, these are judgments and not threats; Opinions that may or may never be carried out.

Rightly do the rather incompetent pastors fear the hate crimes laws that are about to be passed. And as a sample of what they can expect:

On 11:30AM on 24 June, 2009. the odious Hal Turner was arrested, this time for a June 2, 2009, judgment of Judge Frank Easterbrook and Judges Richard Posner and William Bauer of the Chicago-based U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, that said, "Let me be the first to say this plainly: These Judges deserve to be killed."

Turner's statements are identical to what others have said regarding homosexuals. If the FBI will arrest one man for judging the sin of people, they will arrest anyone who judges sin. It makes no difference whether the man is a pope, a pastor, or a racist. The persecution has already begun with the usual, man that nobody likes, therefore nobody will not object.

http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/n009rp_HomosexualPriests.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_hat8.htm
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-hal_turner_arrested_again.artjun25,0,1750469.story