Evangelists Cleared of ‘Hate Crime’ Charges

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Jeff Johnson
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The http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3579 has upheld a lower court’s ruling that homosexuals were illegally added to the list of groups protected under the Keystone State’s so-called “hate crimes” law.

After criminal charges were dismissed against Christian missionaries who evangelized at a “gay pride” event in Philadelphia, those missionaries filed suit, challenging the manner in which homosexuals were afforded special protections under the state’s “hate crimes” law. Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s Foundation for Moral Law represented the group.

“We were very elated at the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court,” Moore explains. “It upheld the lower court, which had denied these corrupt politicians from sneaking a hate crimes bill through the Pennsylvania legislature.”According to a Foundation for Moral Law article, the Foundation and attorney Aaron D. Martin represented a handful of Christian evangelists, including Michael Marcavage of Repent America, who were charged in 2004 for “ethnic intimidation” at the parade. After the evangelists sued and the court struck down the law as unconstitutional, Moore was overjoyed.

The legislature had attached the amendment to the hate crimes law to an unrelated agriculture bill, which is a violation of the Pennsylvania constitution. Moore asserts that such laws are really about the government trying to control people’s thoughts rather than criminal’s actions.

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2008-07-28