David Limbaugh - Another Crackpot in the Family

Limbaugh the younger brother writes in World Net Daily (where else?) "Distorting the Word Hate." Therein, Limbaugh starts with the usual blather about those darned homosexual activists. What a persistent nuisance they are for trivially seeking equal protection under the law. Then, with respect to HR1913 (the Hate Crimes bill), he remarkably gets it right — for a moment anyway. "The bill would make it a federal crime to willfully cause bodily injury to someone (or to attempt to do so with firearms or explosives) because of his or her actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability."

I have read and re-read this article several times. Yet,I still don't quite understand how he got from there to here:

Color me, also, alarmist, but I think the main purpose of this bill is to demonize and criminalize thought, especially the politically incorrect belief that homosexual behavior is either abnormal or sinful. It is to make an emphatic societal statement that this belief constitutes "hate" and possibly to lay the groundwork for outlawing speech expressing this belief, including from the pulpit.

To resolve the issue, one would have to revise the definition of either violent crime or thought. Or, as Limbaugh does, you can join the evangelical horah that has been twirling faster and faster lately. Hava nagila ve nis'mecha.

Step 1:

The practice of criminalizing peaceful expression of this belief has already occurred in other nations – including Sweden, Canada and Great Britain – and even in our own Philadelphia.

Step 2:

New York City authorities ordered the removal of billboards – citing an anti-harassment ordinance – that displayed various biblical versions of Leviticus 18:22 ...

That's it. That's it? That seems to be the entirety of Limbaugh's connection. Thereafter, we get the proforma "If you want to witness a clinic in "hate," watch the YouTube video of homosexual celebrity blogger Perez Hilton excoriating Miss California, Carrie Prejean, for courageously offering her opinion ..."

Then of course, we are told to be afraid — be very afraid!

Lovers of free speech and free exercise of religion should awaken to the relentless effort of radical homosexual activists to validate their lifestyle by demonizing, criminalizing and silencing those who disagree with them.

Sure Dave. Could you try all of that again? This time without the tin foil helmet!