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CONTACT: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355
Congressman Charlie Dent – 202.225-6411
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Congressman Curt Weldon – 202.225-2011
TRADITIONAL VALUES GROUP SAYS FIVE PA CONGRESSMEN TRAITORS TO PENNSYLVANIANS AND REPUBLICAN PARTY
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The AFA of PA holds that there is no need for any hate crimes laws as there are already laws on the books to deal with crimes. Hate crimes oppose the American way of equal protection under the law and gives special protections to some and in so doing chills the free speeches rights of others.
In the letter to the Congressmen, Gramley cited numerous examples of cases where this has happened. A few follow:
* Baptist Press reported in March: "A Catholic bishop in
Catholic World News reported last year: "The Rev. Ake Green, the pastor of a Swedish Pentecostal church in
* The Irish Times of
* In November 2004 a
Additionally, the letter cites homosexual anti-violence groups and studies which show the greatest threat to homosexuals is at the hands of their same-sex partners.
The FBI's latest report that in 2003 that a nationwide total of only 1,479 individuals were victims of so-called "hate crimes" allegedly motivated by disapproval of homosexual behavior, a number that represents a tiny and extremely rare total of less than 2/100ths of one percent of the roughly 9 million Americans estimated to be involved in homosexual behavior. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=281170
By comparison that same year, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs -- which includes the Triangle Foundation, a Detroit-based homosexual advocacy group -- reported a record-high 6,523 incidents of "gay-on-gay" domestic violence in only eleven
Also by comparison, 365gay.com, a pro-homosexual web site, reported in 2003: "One in five urban gay men is battered by his partner, a new study by
Simple math -- two million men who are victims of 'gay-on-gay' domestic violence, versus a tiny 2/100ths of one percent who are victims of alleged 'hate crimes' --indicates that it's literally a thousand times more likely that an individual involved in
homosexual activity will be violently attacked by one of his own 'gay' sex partners than by someone who 'hates' such individuals.
Editors of the National Lesbian & Gay Domestic Violence Newsletter wrote in their book, Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: "The probability of violence occurring in a gay couple is mathematically double the probability of that in a heterosexual couple...we believe as many as 650,000 gay men may be victims of domestic violence each year in the United States."
”The ‘Aye’ vote of these five Pennsylvania Republican Congressmen who joined with Democrats and 25 other Republicans is not only a slap in the face of the eleven Christians who were arrested and charged with a hate crime in Philadelphia last October, but is a slap in the face to all Pennsylvanians who view homosexuality as wrong. Additionally, their actions do not reflect the views of President Bush and the Republican Platform on which he was elected in the first place. The actions of these Congressmen should be to protect all Americans, not give a select few special protection which is what the Conyers amendment does,” Gramley concluded.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/conventions/republican/features/platform.00/#22
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