Arkansans Are Outing Senator Lincoln's Pro-Homosexual Voting Record -- Free Speech at Risk

Letters to the editors published in Arkansas newspapers are taking Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) to task for supporting the Hate Crimes (Hate Speech) bill before the Senate. Below are excerpts from some letters that were posted by the Women's Prayer & Action Org: [Click to Read full text]

Iris Stevens, Jonesboro - Just how well is Sen. Blanche Lincoln representing the values of Arkansans? She just voted to keep the section of the immigration bill that allows immediate legal status for 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens. . . . (However,) Lincoln is also . . . co-sponsor of the hate crime bill that passed the House and is awaiting a vote in the Senate. Three of Arkansas’ four representatives voted against the bill. . . Our state Legislature has voted against a hate crime bill nine times.

Lincoln in 2006 received an 89% rating from the largest gay and lesbian organization in the country, Human Rights Campaign, . . . She also received a 75% rating from the ACLU in 2006, up from 43% in 2000. . . . According to National Review, the ACLU defended the North American Man-Boy Love Assoc. after two convicted pedophiles accessed information on NAMBLA’s website and used it to seduce, rape and murder a 10-year-old boy, then (the ACLU) sued the city of San Diego to expel the Boy Scouts from Balboa Park, calling them a religious group. Just how many Arkansans would vote like Lincoln, 75% of the time with the ACLU and 89% with the Human Rights Campaign?

Bobby L. Hester: Sen. Lincoln is co-sponsor of the U.S. hate crime bill that recently passed the House. Doesn't Lincoln believe that we are all created equal and deserve equal protection? Giving more punishment for violating one person than another and giving federal protection to certain classes, as the hate crime bill does, is not equal treatment. . . The latest hate crime bill expands protection for sexual orientation, and Lincoln voted more than once to add that language to the bill. . . If homosexuals are born with homosexual orientation, wouldn't the same be true for pedophiles? Just recently in an Arkansas pedophile case, a prominent psychiatrist and the defense attorney both testified that the offender suffered from homosexual pedophilia, as well as mental illness, and was unable to control his actions. Until 1973 homosexuality was considered a mental disorder, not sexual orientation. Sen. Lincoln, just how long will it be before pedophilia will be considered sexual orientation?

Bobbie Warner, Little Rock: Sen. Blanche Lincoln says she supports the U.S. hate crime bill. A post by America's Human Rights Campaign (HRC), self proclaimed as the largest gay and lesbian organization, heralds the victory of the passage of this hate crime bill in the US House, saying, "The bill adds sexual orientation and gender identity... hate violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

According to the FBI report there were 5,190 victims related to hate crime in 2005. The approximate number of crimes against children each year is 849,000. About 2,000 of those children are murdered each year, but only 6 of the hate crime victims were murdered. And about half of the hate crime victims were just threats, not actions. Oh, that our children could be so lucky . . . Sen. Lincoln . . . received a 89% rating by HRC's . . . 43 senators didn't vote for even one of the bills HRC thought was important, earning a 0%. Lincoln, however, received her 0% rating from Concerned Women of America, voting against family and children issues. . . . contact Lincoln and tell her that instead of exalting homosexuals to priority status, our 849,000 child victims need the federal assistance the hate crime promises to lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.

Debrah Donner, Manilla: "Pastors, Act Now or Prepare for Jail, "was the title of an article recently used by a author in regard to the US hate crime bill H. R. 1592. . . . The bill passed the House 237-180 but hasn't passed the Senate. An amendment by Rep. Dave Weldon (FL) "to clarify that the printing, distribution, or public reading of the Bible is not prohibited by any of the provisions of the bill," was defeated in the Rules Comm. by Democrats 9-4. Another amendment, "Nothing in this section limits the religious freedom of any person or group under the Constitution," by Rep. Mike Pence was also rejected by Democrats... According to FBI reports, "In about half of hate crimes, the victim was threatened verbally or assaulted without either a weapon or an injury being involved," In other words, the crimes were speech. It is obvious that hate crime bills are designed to take away the free speech of anyone that expresses politically incorrect viewpoints on issues.

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