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Responding to what the offices of both Republican and Democrat House Judiciary members called "a ton of calls" early this morning, Rep. John Conyers now says he will allow a hearing on his Orwellian hate bill HR 1913! According to the office of Rep. Chaffetz, a memo was sent to all Judiciary members at about 10 a.m. EST today. It announced a televised hearing on Wednesday, April 22; the time is yet to be announced.
This is the third time this month that patriots, provided with advanced warning or guidance by NPN, have trumped Conyers. On April 2, we discovered that Conyers was quietly introducing his new, much more dangerous hate bill into the Judiciary in the last hours before spring recess. On April 15 we alerted the nation that Rep. Barney Frank was predicting the hate bill would speed through Judiciary soon after lawmakers returned to Washington on April 20. National homosexual activists, working closely with homosexual Frank, said there would be no hearings. But YOU did the rest, widely trumpeting these warnings and voicing protest to your members of Congress. This third time YOU proved that God, and the voice of the people, can still make a difference.
But beware! Even if he fulfills this obligatory duty, Conyers and liberal Democrats will probably make the hearing a sham -- riding roughshod over conservative Republican objections and amendments.
Keep calling all members of Congress, letting them know that we will not let up until all hate crimes bills in this Congress -- and in congresses to come have gone the way of Diplodocus!
It's up to you to change history. Support from the religious right remains spotty and undependable. Last Thursday morning, I called the largest new right "watchdog" groups to alert them to Barney Frank's prediction. I sent my alert to Bob Unruh of World Net Daily Wednesday afternoon, asking that he alert WND readers immediately. No WND article has been posted. Except for excellent alerts by Traditional Values Coalition, the Christian Anti-Defamation League, Janet Porter, and the Christian Post, Christian "watchdogs" have not yet barked a warning that the hate bill is going through Judiciary next week.
Last Monday, I was jubilant that American Family Association at last sounded strong calls to action against HR 1913. Yet the evangelical right has ignored the hate bill threat for the past three months and given every impression that it is a virtual non-issue. It is very difficult for their constituents to take it seriously and spring into action. Our NPN poll of House Judiciary Republicans Friday afternoon revealed that they had been receiving a meager one to four calls a day!
Shockingly, one evangelical group is sending disinformation, claiming that Conyers' bill is not a threat! When I called Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition last Wednesday, their legislative staffer, who said she didn't know a hate bill was in Congress, was alarmed and grateful when I told her of Frank's prediction. She said she would immediately alert their top authority. Five hours later, CC posted an alert pooh-poohing the danger of Conyers' bill! It said, "Most political analysts say that it will not pass on the floor of the House of Representatives!" Such disinformation from unnamed "political analysts" is typical of Pat Robertson's manipulations. In 2004, NPN repeatedly attempted to enlist his help to publicize the outrage of 11 Christians being arrested for the "hate crime" of witnessing to homosexuals. He was silent for a full three months. Only after the injustice had been righted and the defendants freed did CBN send a camera crew to interview Michael Marcavage, head of the "Philly 11." I don't trust Pat Robertson.
I also called Jay Sekulow's American Center for Law and Justice last Thursday and left a strong message. The ACLJ website remains empty of any hate bill warnings. Like Robertson, Sekulow always resisted our entreaties to publicize the Philly 11 outrage. He told one of my supporters that he didn't see it as a civil rights violation. He had no problem with 11 Christians spending 21 hours in jail, arrested under seven charges, facing 47 years prison and $90,000 fines each? I trust Sekulow even less than Robertson.
Why do Christian groups still delay? Do they lack time to create effective articles? Last Wednesday I read Frank's prediction of the hate bill and then needed just 45 minutes to put an alert on our website and send it to subscribers. Surely organizations soliciting millions annually should have writers and analysts as competent as I. Their sluggish response could well be too late to slow the hate bill in Judiciary.
But it's not too late for you and me. We are like the Minutemen and women of 1776 who instantly seized canteens and flintlocks and went to fight an irregular yet effective guerilla war. Like them, we recognize that NOW is the moment for one great effort to stop Conyers' hate bill in Judiciary.
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