Elena Kagan and the War Against Christianity
- Rick Scarborough
- May 12, 2010
On October 22, 2009 Hate Crimes protection was extended to sexual orientation by the Senate and sent to the President's desk to be signed shortly thereafter.
On April 20, 2010, police arrested Dale McAlpine, a 42-year-old Baptist street preacher in Britain for telling a passerby -- in earshot of a policewoman -- that God views homosexuality as a sin. Under Britain's Public Order Act 1986, which forbids "using threatening, abusive or insulting words ... tending to and causing harassment, alarm or distress," he will face a criminal trial at a date yet to be determined. McAlpine was fingerprinted, given a DNA swab and retina scan, and was locked in a police cell for seven hours.
The law was in place for 24 years before it was applied to a preacher of the Gospel, but now, in Great Britain, you can go to jail for agreeing with the Holy Bible on homosexuality. And you can rest assured America is on a collision course with the same tragic conclusion.
The appointment of Elena Kagan is the latest step toward the moral abyss for America. As the President's latest pick for the Supreme Court, this judicial neophyte is a doctrinaire radical leftist with a written disdain for the Constitution of the United States, the very document which she will be sworn to uphold if approved by the Senate, an almost fore drawn conclusion unless enough God fearing Americans raise their voices and demand that she be withdrawn.
In a 1996 paper, "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine," Kagan argued it may be proper to suppress speech because it is offensive to society or to the government.
In that paper asserted First Amendment doctrine is comprised of "motives and invalidate actions infested with them" and she goes so far as to claim that "First Amendment law is best understood and most readily explained as a kind of motive-hunting."
You don't have to wonder whether she will rule that a preacher condemning homosexual behavior, based upon his deeply held religious beliefs, will be properly suppressed speech. Simply look back at her tenure as the first female Dean of the Harvard Law School. There she had Military recruiters thrown off the campus because of their "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy of dealing with homosexuals in the Armed Services. She even went so far as to file an Amicus Brief siding against the Solomon Amendment, which threatens academic institutions that ban Military recruiters from their campuses with the loss of Federal funds. She lost, by an 8-0 decision by the Supreme Court, meaning that she was left of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on this issue.
Kagan's name was also on a brief, "United States V. Stevens," according to the Washington Examiner, stating: "Whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs."
God only knows who she believes is qualified to assess which speech is valuable and which is not, but you can rest assured among those who are qualified, are the intellectual elites in academia and the media who agree with her. And as for God...according to Ms. Kagan, He apparently got this one wrong. Today in America, Romans 1:18-32 is Hate Speech, and we are about to install a Judge to the highest court in the land who will see that the law is enforced and preachers and Christians will be forbidden to speak out and call homosexuality sin.
The real losers are not the preachers who will go to jail, for they shall find God's presence there and be rewarded in this and the next life. The real losers are those caught up in a sin that our Government forbids us to tell the truth about, without being threatened with arrest.
Can't happen here? Just ask Rev. Dale McAlpine of Great Britain.
Till they come for me, I am going to continue to announce the truth and pray for revival in America.
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