Hate Crimes

Hate crime legislation is a popular concept in the current US Government.  Great Britain has already passed national hate crime laws. What is hate crime legislation?

The idea is that thought matters when it comes to criminalizing certain activities.  American rights to free speech allow people to say what they want to say and express opinions that may “offend” certain other Americans.  The trend of government passing hate crime laws in America and around the world will provide the opportunity to persecute Christians.

The Bible establishes moral standards for human beings and many of those standards create problems for people who want to establish their own personal standards of right and wrong.   As the modern world moves to allow truth to be variable based on personal preferences, the idea about absolute standards decreed by an omnipotent God are terrifying to those who seek to be their own Gods.

In Great Britain a Christian is in danger of being prosecuted criminally for quoting scripture from the Bible that condemns specific sinful behavior, such as homosexuality.  To do so is considered “hate speech” and it violates hate crime statutes.  This movement is coming to the United States and in not too distant future the possibility exists that Christians will be imprisoned for preaching the Bible as absolute truth.