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Dear Friends,
We have an urgent request. Your representatives are discussing a very important bill today. HB 4474 (and HB 4475) would make it a felony to cause anyone to feel “frightened” based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.
This is a hate speech law targeted at churches and religious people most of all. But the vague wording in this bill will lead to more—not less—hate speech. It provides criminal penalties against those who don’t know which words are okay and which are not. This is a violation of our rights as Americans to due process of the law. Only speech “for a legitimate purpose” would be protected, but nowhere does the bill define what that means. The bill is unconstitutional, as it violates the Free Speech and Free Exercise of Religion clauses of the First Amendment. Click here to read an in-depth explanation by David Kallman, Senior Legal Counsel for the Great Lakes Justice Center.
If this passes, we might soon see pastors arrested for speaking about the biblical view of sexuality and marriage or school board members put in jail for speaking up to protect our children’s innocence by shielding them from a transexual agenda being taught in our schools.
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