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TechnoratiAlthough administrators have allowed homosexual employees to use the system to promote a gay pride rally and similar events, they rejected the Christian flyers as “homophobic” and “disruptive,” claiming that it intended to “create a hostile environment,” according to the World Congress of Families (WCF) - the international network of pro-family organizations that popularized the expression “natural family.”
Their flyers were removed from the municipal bulletin board and the women were warned similar action could result in disciplinary action “up to and including termination.”
“Under this standard, interest groups of which the left approves are free to promote their views through a government apparatus,” Allen Carlson, international secretary of WCF, said in a statement. “If pro-family forces seek to counter that advocacy, their views are labeled ‘hate speech’ and accordingly suppressed.”
Highlighting fears that the federal hate crimes bills will further encroach on freedom to express religious beliefs, many prominent Christian leaders have publicly criticized the legislations .
“The Hate Crimes Act will be the first step to criminalize our rights as Christians to believe that some behaviors are sinful,” Dr. James C. Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family Action, said in a message for a petition to oppose the bill.
“Pastors preaching from Scripture on homosexuality could be threatened with persecution and prosecution,” he noted.
Other Christian leaders that have criticized the bills include Richard Land, president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council; Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church and chairman of High Impact Leadership Coalition; Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues at Concerned Women for America; Randy Thomas, executive vice president for the gay outreach ministry Exodus International; Brad Daucus, president of the Christian law firm Pacific Justice Institute; and Janet Folger, president of Faith2Action.
Pro-family groups participating in this week’s anti-hate crimes bill rally include Elijah Ministries, Pass the Salt Ministries, Minutemen United, and Brotherhood of a New Destiny.
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