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• Friday, February 16, 2007 01:01 PM

  well, try this

  When you have to waste precious time and resources to keep the federal government from enshrining hatred of you into the Constitution ... ---Queer National

  Well, try this. The words "natural family," "marriage," and "family values" now constitute hate speech, according to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today.

  Two Oakland city employees who were trying to start a group "for people of faith to express their views on the contemporary issues of the day" used those words in a notice they pinned to an employees' bulletin board in a city building. (This board was open to all employees to post notices and was frequently used by homosexual groups to announce their events.) But, city officials removed the notice because it supposedly contained "statements of a homophobic nature" and promoted "sexual-orientation-based harassment." The women who posted the notices were even threatened with being fired from their jobs. All this came after several memos were posted on the city's billboards and sent via e-mail that, according to some city employees, promoted homosexuality and "openly denounce[d] Christian values" (all this according to legal papers filed in the case).

  According to Richard Ackerman, one of the lawyers working on behalf of the plaintiffs, "The city of Oakland has interpreted [an earlier ruling by U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker] to mean that Christianity has no place in our society and should be subject to punishment."

  The true totalitarianism is from the Left, which will tolerate absolutely no dissent from its political orthodoxy.

  And, for a quick class in American politics, it's not the "federal government" that enshrines anything in the Constitution. It is the people themselves who ultimately ratify the Constitution.

  —Sie Wissen Nie
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