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Four Christians on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging the recently enacted Hate Crimes Prevention Act, arguing that it seeks to criminalize deeply held religious beliefs that are in opposition to homosexuality. The new law, the lawsuit contends, “is an effort to eradicate religious beliefs opposing the homosexual agenda from the marketplace of ideas by demonizing, vilifying, and criminalizing such beliefs as a matter of federal law and policy.” Read more »

Remember the “hate crimes” legislation the Democrat congress sneaked through cloaked in the defense bill last year? CNS News reports the Thomas More Law Center is challenging the Constitutionality of this unconstitutional legislation. Protecting immoral, dangerous behaviors from criticism, and quashing freedom of speech and freedom of religion under the auspices of protecting people is not the American way. Read more »

As we take one final look back on the almost defunct year of 2009, these are the top 50 articles at Dakota Voice during the year, based on the number of hits they received. Some continued to receive thousands of hits months after they were published, and are relevant and informative even today. Take a walk with us down memory lane as we take one final look back at the events and issues of 2009. Read more »

A Canadian judge last week exonerated a former pastor who was charged of committing a hate crime for sending a letter to a local newspaper criticizing homosexuality. Judge E.C. Wilson overturned a 2008 ruling by the Alberta Human Rights Commission that ordered former Alberta pastor Stephen Boissoin to stop all public criticisms of homosexuality and to pay the plaintiff $5,000 in damages, according to The Canadian Press. Read more »

For months white and hispanic males were being systematically assaulted by black gang members and, apparently, race was the main factor in the attacks. A few were robbed, but in most cases victims were simply beaten while attackers screamed racial slurs and epithets. Does anyone suppose that there would be any doubt about the motivations for the attacks were the roles reversed? Read more »

Tremendous abuses can be perpetrated on everyday people–especially people of faith–in the name of political correctness, “anti-discrimination,” and “hate crime” legislation. The latest illustration of this demonstrates that you don’t even have to break the law (or violate common sense) to be penalized for not worshiping at the altar of political correctness. Read more »

Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs with both Liberty Counsel and Liberty Alliance Action issued a statement on news that the left-wing United Church of Christ (UCC) and other quasi-Christian liberal groups are calling for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to officially investigate talk radio and other conservative media outlets in an effort to “put an end” to “hate speech” and so-called “media violence.” Read more »

We already have a source, which instructs against murder and to love your neighbor as yourself. But this has been banned from our schools and our public spaces. So once again, in what is becoming our Godless nation, we mistake the disease for the cure. Read more »

After a decade-long struggle, Congress passed a bill Thursday evening that would make it a federal crime to attack someone based on the person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The Senate – in a 68-29 vote, with most Republicans opposed – approved the measure that was attached to the $680 billion defense spending bill. Read more »

The best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: More Bad News on Obama Ed Official Kevin Jennings; GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Daugaard on the Issues; Rotten Leaders: When Your Heroes are Villains; A strange case and a doctor’s “right of conscience”;’Government cannot consider issuing a ‘divorce’ for a ‘marriage’ it doesnt recognize’; GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Munsterman on the Issues; More Marxist Ties to Obama; and more Read more »

The House voted Thursday in favor of expanding hate crimes protection to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. The bill was attached to the 2010 Defense Authorization bill. In a 281 to 146 vote, the House approved a measure that conservatives say was sneaked into a must-pass defense policy bill. Read more »

Leaders in the U.S. House plan to slip the hate crimes bill into the 2010 Defense Authorization bill that could be voted on as early as Thursday, a conservative public policy organization warned. In a move similar to the Senate, the House leadership reportedly wants to add the difficult-to-pass amendment to the high priority defense budget, according to Family Research Council. Read more »

Stuart Shepard and Carrie Gordon Earll, Senior Director of Issue Analysis at Focus Action, talk about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), an Orwellian-named pro-homosexual bill that will pave the way to discriminate against Christians and anyone who tells the truth about the immoral and unhealthy practice of homosexual behavior. Read more »

An interview with Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives Thad Wasson from Piedmont, South Dakota, on the issues of cap and trade legislation, bailouts, hate crimes, the war on terrorism, Native American issues, the Constitution and more. Read more »

The best of the best last week from Dakota Voice. From President Obama’s inability to praise his own country, to hate crimes, to Al Gore’s plummeting credibility, to childhood sexual abuse and homosexuality, to hope and change, to change for homosexuals, to compelling evidence for intelligent design, and compromise with evil…we have it all! Read more »

Liberals in congress are making the latest attempt to bring back the “Fairness Doctrine,” but this time under another name. This measure, HR 1966, would punish any electronic communication that someone says intimidates or causes emotional distress. It can be easily used to silence dissent on the homosexual agenda, or pretty much anything Leftists want to protect. Read more »

The House has already passed “hate crime” legislation and the Senate is now considering it. This legislation constitutes a tremendous threat to religious freedom and other liberties. It does nothing to further protect any group–including homosexuals–and does nothing to improve the administration of justice. The SD Family Policy Council will be holding press conferences to inform the media and the public on this important issue. Read more »

Proponents claim a hate crimes bill will only protect homosexuals from “discrimination.” Yet everywhere such hate crime laws are passed, they are used to curtain freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and punish those who do not fully celebrate and accommodate their behavior. Read more »

Sadly it seems the UK has ripped the moral compass off the ship of their nation and thrown it into the deep.
The British government has for some time been genuflecting to evil with such vigor that Winston Churchill may just roll over in his grave.  But recent capitulations in England are taking that once-great nation [...] Read more »

John W. Whitehead

“You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.”—Lyndon Johnson

After 12 years of protracted debate, it looks as if the nation will finally get a federal [...] Read more »

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post
By Jennifer Riley
Christian Post Reporter
Fri, Apr. 17 2009 12:30 PM EDT
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee will vote on a controversial legislation next week that seeks to add homosexual and transgender people to the list of classes federally protected from hate crimes.
H.R. 1913, named the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes [...] Read more »