Over the Rainbow: - Wrestling With Angels
Over the Rainbow: - Wrestling With Angels
Over the Rainbow: - Wrestling With Angels
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* Professionals could face lawsuits or be denied licensing.<br />
* Religious non-profits or educational establishments may lose <strong>the</strong>ir tax-exempt status.<br />
* Religious clubs at secular universities may be denied recognition.<br />
* Private business owners and religious non-profits would be required to include gays as<br />
employees. <strong>With</strong> concern over our loss of freedom of conscience, Perkins notes occasions in<br />
which <strong>the</strong>se conditions have already occurred.<br />
* Catholic charities in Boston were told <strong>the</strong>y could no longer do adoptions if <strong>the</strong>y refused to<br />
place children with same-sex couples.<br />
* A California fertility doctor was sued for refusing to artificially inseminate a lesbian.<br />
* Ocean Grove Camp Meeting in New Jersey lost it’s tax-exempt status because <strong>the</strong>y refused to<br />
rent <strong>the</strong>ir worship pavilion for a lesbian ‘civil union’ ceremony. Their status was restored with<br />
<strong>the</strong> help of <strong>the</strong> Alliance Defense Fund.<br />
* A Jewish school in New York was forced to allow same-sex ‘domestic partners’ in married<br />
student housing.<br />
* The Christian Legal Society at <strong>the</strong> University of California Legal Society was denied<br />
recognition.<br />
* A Lu<strong>the</strong>ran school in California was sued for expelling two girls in a lesbian relationship.<br />
* The online dating service eHarmony was pressured to provide services for same-sex couples.<br />
* A fa<strong>the</strong>r in Massachusetts was arrested when he tried to shield his kindergarten son from<br />
exposure to a book on same-sex marriage.<br />
Dr. D James Kennedy, <strong>the</strong> founder of Coral Ridge Ministries, sounded <strong>the</strong> alarm on <strong>the</strong><br />
federal hate crime law, which is named after Mat<strong>the</strong>w Shepherd. Mat<strong>the</strong>w Shepherd, a<br />
homosexual, was brutally pistol whipped and left tied to a split-rail fence in Laramie, Wyoming<br />
by two thugs in an attempt to get money and drugs. Homosexual protestors turned <strong>the</strong> tragic<br />
event into an attack against <strong>the</strong> Christian community, claiming that anti-gay messages by<br />
Christians who opposed homosexuality contributed to <strong>the</strong> 1998 murder of Shepherd. Hate<br />
crime laws add additional penalties for crimes committed against homosexuals or o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
designated groups when hatred or bias is a motivating factor.<br />
Opponents to <strong>the</strong> hate crime laws argue that sufficient penalties already are in place to<br />
protect us from violent actions and hate crime laws are an assault on our beliefs and values. A<br />
<strong>Over</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Rainbow</strong>: The Gay Battle for Social Reorganization of America. 2010<br />
Dr. M. L. Coppock<br />
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