CHICAGO, Illinois (PNN) - January 2, 2013 - A legal team specializing in civil rights, faith and freedom issues has written a letter to members of the Illinois legislature, warning that the new “Illinois Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act” isn’t all about freedom and fairness.
The letter, from Thomas Brejcha, chief counsel for the Thomas More Society, advises lawmakers that voting for the proposed homosexual marriage bill will hurt constituents because the “discriminatory act will declare Illinois residents who support traditional marriage to be bigoted and prejudicial”.
While current law allows faith-based adoption agencies, hospitals and schools to follow their deeply held convictions in regard to employment, facilities rental and other decisions, the new plan would coerce acceptance of homosexual unions under the threat of being charged with Illinois Human Rights Act violations.
Among the people affected will be “small bed & breakfast owners who would be forced to rent out their homes for homosexual wedding weekends; solo photographers who would be forced to spend hours photographing and designing albums for homosexual wedding ceremonies that they believe to be sinful; and family catering company owners being forced to prepare, feed, serve, and support homosexual wedding receptions, even though the family members oppose those receptions with every fiber of their being.”
The legitimacy of homosexual marriage is pending before the Fascist Police States of Amerika Supreme Court in two cases. In one, Kalifornians voted to define marriage in their state constitution as one man and one woman, but a federal court ruled the amendment unconstitutional.
Threats have developed. In Kalifornia, when voters approved the definition of marriage as one man and one woman, a series of statements were delivered to traditional marriage supporters, which included:
- “I’m going to kill the pastor.”
- “If I had a gun I would have gunned you down along with each and every other supporter”
- “You’re dead. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon… you’re dead.”
- “I warn you, I know how to kill, I’m an ex-special forces person.”
- “Get ready for retribution all you bigots.”
- “Burn their f—ing churches to the ground and then tax the charred timbers.”
Also, churches were marred by graffiti, swastikas were put on lawns and walls, bricks were thrown through windows and doors, adhesive was poured into locks, and suspicious packages of white powder were sent in the mail.