Free Speech or Hate Speech: The Westboro Baptist Church
It gets me thinking about the difference between free speech and hate speech and the role of Religious Liberty.
It gets me thinking about the difference between free speech and hate speech and the role of Religious Liberty.
There is one major task left in regards to this bill. We need to say thank-you to those senators who voted to table the bill, and keep the PA Constitution free from discrimination.
I was truly impressed, and I hoped at that point that we would see him seek out election again. The city will be a better place with Kevin in there working on the committee level.
Matt Alber and I were on tour in Febuary when the news about this was most heavy, we met with some discharged servicemembers, heard their stories and wrote a song about it. 100% of the donated proceeds from “Who We Are” goes directly to SLDN.
On Tuesday morning, the PA Senate Judiciary Committee will be taking up John Eichelberger’s SB 707 which would amend the PA Constitution, writing discrimination into it. The bill would essentially change nothing except that the ban on same-sex marriage would be built directly into the constitution.
Fiascos like the Prop 8 vote or the Maine referendum have created an unfounded worry that most people, and especially most older people are opposed to gay civil rights. But this is unfounded. It just isn’t true! People of all ages see value in Equality and are willing to step up and take actio
Neither of us have ever done anything inappropriate with a minor, nor have we tried to buy off someone’s silence to keep our evil deeds a secret. But we are supposed to be the ones who are a threat to the family and to children?
Without it, the only thing that exists is a lose-lose outcome. With the right space created for dialogue and interaction a win-win becomes possible.
Despite the ambiguity, Pennsylvanians are united on one thing: Same-sex marriage isn’t a campaign issue. Six in 10 respondents said a candidate’s stance on the issue would not determine whether they support the candidate, compared to 34 percent who said it did.
The language of the bill would define marriage as between one man and one woman. Backers of the legislation believe that this will make it harder to overturn in the courts, but this really isn’t the case. There are states that have had a constitutional ban, and it has been found as unconstitutional just as easily as a simple law of the state.