Friday, August 11, 2006

Bible on Trial in New York

Second Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing a case that arose when a Nigerian pastor leased two billboards that simply quoted scriptures from Levitcus about the sinfulness of homosexuality.

Guy Molinari, then Borough President of Staten Island, where the billboards were located, used his official position to press the billboard company into covering up the message. He also obtained and subsequently publicized the name and address of the pastor. The pastor then received death threats.

The police investigated the pastor for "hate speech" but would do nothing about the threats. Christian lawyers are now asking for the official censorship to be declared illegal. Details here.





Leftist Hate-Speech OK

We read:

"Do they want war because they have the devil inside them?" demanded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, speaking of the Jewish state. "I say to them from here, from Iran, once and a thousand times: Murderers! Cowards! Frankly, their fate has been sealed, from the depths of the people's soul."

Source


And when was that comment made? About the same time Mel Gibson made his now-famous remarks. There was a torrent of criticism from the media about Gibson's antisemitism but what did we hear of Chavez's antisemitism? Virtually nothing. And Chavez is a much more important person on the world scene than Gibson is.





Consolation Prize for Losing the Georgia Primary



For a previous comment on McKinney, see here. For a comment on the primary, see here

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