Is the First Amendment any match for a Hate Crime?

I know there has been excellent insight conveyed recently from many wise and well-spoken voices regarding the current attempt to legislate the advancement of LGBT propaganda to the detriment of average Americans through so-called "Hate Crimes" legislation, so I'll try not to re-hash the entire topic.

Coming from the "son of a preacher man", I can only imagine what may happen if the ACLU is turned loose on the honest and well-intentioned religious institutions that may speak the Truth (or opinion for any skeptics) regarding God's position on certain carnal behavior of an alternative lifestyle. Given the recent shady-spending from our current administration, I wouldn't be surprised if groups like ACORN were tasked with monitoring so-called "hate crimes". They could begin sending "volunteers" into every church and synagogue in the country to look for instances of anti-LGBT speech (even if it should be protected by the 1st Amendment). Those reports would be recorded as opportunities for the ACLU to take the taxpayer's money to litigate against those very taxpayers right to free speech. I don't think you have to be in the dark side of Glenn Beck's conspiratorial mind to see how easily the various Liberal-activist slush funds could work together in an attempt to inflict serious damage to the moral institutions our nation's founders specifically protected in our constitution.

I don't know about your copy of our founding documents, but mine specifically states that the Congress shall make no law "...inhibiting the free exercise thereof" (of Religion). Of course, for those of us who went to Government Schools in the last 4o years, let me remind you that when the founders say the word "Religion", they did not mean that the Constitution should allow deference to Sharia law, but that's a conversation for another day. Either way, if Congress passes a law by which teaching God's Word constitutes "hate speech", that inhibits the free exercise of the predominant religion freely exercised in this great nation since its inception, and is yet another aggressive attack in the war on Freedom that the misguided (or often malicious) Left has launched on the free people of our country.

To that end, I sent the following communication to our Democrat Senator last week, upon hearing that the House was voting on HR 1913, and likely to pass it:

Senator X,
I realize the bill (HR 1913) has not yet reached the Senate; however the Liberal extremists in the House are catering to the LGBT lobby and are likely to pass HR 1913 today.
As you know, this bill is unnecessary, as sufficient hate crime legislation is already on the books. Regardless of the lies put forth by the LGBT lobby and its mis-guided proponents in the House, this new bill would open the door for pastors to be prosecuted for preaching from certain passages from the Bible, therefore infringing on both their freedom of speech, and freedom of religion, as explicitly outlined in the First Amendment.
We can debate the merits of general hate crime legislation at a later time; however I'm sure you can agree that a bill which would directly emasculate one of the founding provisions to the freedom of our country is dangerous to our republic, and not in line with the mainstream views of this country, let alone the overwhelming percentage of your constituency.

I appreciate your comments and look forward to your commitment to uphold the constitution and vote against the Senate version of this bill.

Thanks,
WheresMyUSA

To my dismay (although not to my surprise) the response I received was replete with common political platitudes and weak deflections based on incomplete information from what is likely a LGBT lobby-supplied fact sheet given to his staff. Coming from the Midwest, I'd say at least 70% of his constituency would vote against this legislation if they had the facts.

We cannot rest until the protection of Freedom is restored to this great nation. Pray that our foundations do not erode too much over the next 3+ years as we look to find a leader who understands the reason our great nation actually exists, and knows what is needed to restore it.

God Bless our USA!