Traditional Freedoms Threatened and Lost:

(Only a few years ago these types of events were happening in Europe and Canada. The following true events have occurred recently in America. Events like these tend to set precedents for similar treatment. We are convinced that the general public is unaware of the following developments. It is essential that our citizenry realize this is happening in order to preserve freedom.)

The CA Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a marriage law passed by a majority vote.

After a free election passing CA Prop. 8 sexual activists held angry rallies at churches from New York to LA. That same week many churches were vandalized.

A Sacramento man was forced to resign from his job over his support for Prop 8 in CA.

An elderly Palm Springs woman was silenced, harassed, spit on, and had her property (a cross) purposely destroyed by sexual activists.

A Methodist retreat center in New Jersey lost its tax exempt status for refusing to accommodate a lesbian couple ceremony.

The San Francisco city council condemned a Catholic cardinal’s opposition to homosexual adoption calling it "hateful and discriminatory rhetoric."

A Kentucky faith-based children’s home was sued by a lesbian after it terminated her employment there.

A director of the Washington D.C. transit board was fired by the Maryland governor for saying he thought homosexuality was wrong on a cable TV show.

A Christian couple with a photography business was fined over $6,000 by the New Mexico Human Rights Commission for declining to provide services for a lesbian couple’s ceremony.

The CA Supreme Court issued a ruling requiring two doctors to provide artificial insemination services to a lesbian despite their religious convictions.

A Massachusetts father was arrested when he insisted he be notified when his kindergartner was going to be taught about homosexuality in a public school so he could opt out. The U. S. Supreme Court tossed out his case.

The CA legislature passed a law forbidding the use of the words mother and father in public school texts and classrooms.

California businesses owned by private citizens who supported Proposition 8 have been targeted and boycotted.

Against its will, a Virginia video production company was ordered by a county Human Rights Commission to duplicate two pro-homosexual films.

Catholic Bed & Breakfast owners were charged with discrimination by Vermont's Human Rights Commission for refusing to host a lesbian civil union ceremony because of their beliefs about marriage.

After 100 years in business, Catholic Charities chose to cease adoption services when Massachusetts authorities required them to place children with gay couples.

Envelopes containing a suspicious white powder (which turned out to be harmless) were mailed to Mormon temples in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles following the passage of Proposition 8 in California.

The Boy Scouts in Philadelphia and San Diego have been removed from their historically-provided, public-owned facilities for refusing to accommodate homosexual leaders.

A 21-year Idaho employee was fired because he posted scriptures about sexual immorality in his cubicle.

Unruly, screaming gay activists shut down a speaker, author of, The Born Gay Hoax at Smith College, MA. No arrests were made and the police ordered the invited speaker to leave.

A national symposium on religion and reparative therapy for unwanted homosexuality planned for the American Psychiatric Association’s annual spring meeting was cancelled after gay groups threatened to protest.

The vice president for human resources at the Univ. of Toledo was fired after she wrote an op-ed piece in a local newspaper which stated her belief that sexual orientation is not the same as race.

A website was created to identify and shame members of the LDS church who backed Prop 8.

A Utah TV program about successful therapy for overcoming unwanted homosexuality was cancelled at the last minute when pressure was exerted on the station and owners.

A Christian church in Michigan was picketed and infiltrated by gay anarchist protesters. Inside the church they pulled fire alarms, acted out, shouted at and forced their flyers on parishioners, and stormed the pulpit with a rainbow-colored flag.

A man was forced to resign as director of the Los Angeles Film Festival for supporting Proposition 8.

E-Harmony, which had only provided dating services to opposite-sex couples, was forced by the state of New Jersey and threat of lawsuit, to provide same-sex dating services, including providing 6 months of free services to the first 10,000 gay subscribers.

A copy of The Book of Mormon, a book of sacred scripture to members of the LDS Church, was burned on the steps of a Mormon temple in Denver.

There are calls for the boycotting of Cinemark Theaters, because the CEO of the theater chain supported Proposition 8.

An 11-year-old student in Hattiesburg, Mississippi wrote an assigned poem about Christmas but received a deduction for using the name of Jesus in the poem.

A Panama City, FL woman was ordered to greet customers with "Happy Holidays." When she asked to be allowed to say "Merry Christmas," explaining she didn't believe in secularizing Christmas, she was fired on the spot. The owner even called the police to escort her off the premises. OneNewsNow.

*After being invited to pay to participate in a Salt Lake City bookstore’s advertizing mailer campaign and receiving approval of its flyer, a small publishing company wishing to promote its book about overcoming homosexuality was turned down. The book, previously purchased by the bookstore, was subsequently removed from the bookstore shelves and database.

*At the last minute a radio program cancelled an interview with the author of a book about healing from homosexuality.

*In Utah Valley a long-planned PTA meeting about the gay movement and pornography was unexpectedly cancelled at the last minute by the high school principal via email to every parent.

*After being invited to write an op-ed piece about homosexuality, a newspaper repeatedly required the writer to edit the content. Even though the writer complied with each request, the paper ultimately refused to publish the piece, calling the writer overzealous and homophobic.

*After a reporter taped hour-long separate interviews on camera with a person who was healed from homosexual tendencies and his clinical therapist, the TV station refused to air the interviews, saying the topic was too controversial.

*experienced firsthand by members of the Standard of Liberty Foundation

The above are real-life examples of freedoms of speech and religion being suppressed and punished in favor of social and legal protection of unlimited sexuality. Obviously, this can never be an agree-to-disagree or win-win situation. Recently Newt Gingrich said: "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion . . . [If you are a religious person] you have to confront the fact that the secular extremists are determined to impose on you acceptance of a series of values that are . . . the opposite of what you were taught in Sunday School. They are determined to impose their will on this country no matter what the popular opinion, no matter what the law of the land." (From the Bill O’Reilly TV show, Fox News, Nov. 14, 2008)

(See www.silencingchristians.com for more.)

-Stephen & Janice Graham

 

 

 

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