Focus on the Family: Hate Crimes are Funny
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In the middle of the night on August 27, 1955, Emmett Till--a 15 year-old black boy--was kidnapped from his uncle's house in Mississippi by two white brothers. They dragged him into the woods, beat him until he was unrecognizable, shot him, tied a fan around his neck to weigh him down, and tossed him into the Tallahatchie River.
On September 22, 2000, a man charged into a gay bar in Roanoke, VA and opened fire because he wanted to "waste some faggots." Danny Overstreet was killed, and six others were injured.
In a new video, Focus on the Family equates being brutally murdered for being gay with getting your order screwed up in the drive through. They equate Emmett Till's savage death with being cut off while driving on the freeway.
These are the people who purport to speak for Christians in America. These are the family values that they espouse. This is the group that is pulling George W. Bush's puppet strings.
On September 22, 2000, a man charged into a gay bar in Roanoke, VA and opened fire because he wanted to "waste some faggots." Danny Overstreet was killed, and six others were injured.
In a new video, Focus on the Family equates being brutally murdered for being gay with getting your order screwed up in the drive through. They equate Emmett Till's savage death with being cut off while driving on the freeway.
These are the people who purport to speak for Christians in America. These are the family values that they espouse. This is the group that is pulling George W. Bush's puppet strings.
First of all, no where in that video did it mention the two hate crimes listed in this post. You can't say they compared road rage with these things as they were never mentioned.
Second, they were not saying they were against hate crime legislation but rather the fact that the verbiage in question is using the word "perceived".
The whole video was about the idea that there are many perceived ideas in the world today that are not necessarily right. If a driver "perceives" that the driver next to him is in the wrong it doesn't mean that he is right. A judge should not be able to rule that because a man hits a gay man that it is automatically a hate crime. The gay man may have started the issue. That isn't necessarily the case but based on the wording of the proposed law the judge can make that determination and cause an innocent man to go to jail.
If you want to disagree with the overall stand that FotF makes, fine. But argue on facts. If you have to warp the thought to get what you want you are no better than what you "perceive" to be a bad thing.
I have seen the result of "Hate" crimes. There is nothing else to do but hate.
I would say to focus on the family, clean up your own act before you try to clean up someone elses (It is said in scripture in a slightly different way). As I watch my sixty two year old sister struggle with emotional as well as physical injuries she recieved at the hands of a Baptis deacon, I wonder how they would feel if I went out and beat a baptist deacon to death with a baseball bat because he tried to proselytize me
Focus on the Family- clean the old yeast out and start anew!