Over the Rainbow: - Wrestling With Angels

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