Ireland is looking to pass a sweeping piece of legislature that will allow people who commit “hate speech” and “hate crimes” to be imprisoned, with a 5-year sentence as a maximum penalty.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee confirmed last week that she will be presenting this bill to the Dail (the lower House of the Irish Parliament) within the next few weeks. This bill will create the first hate crime on the books in the country.
I strongly condemn the actions of the small minority of people who subject others to abuse or attack resulting from their own prejudice.
These types of attacks cannot and will not be tolerated.
The new bill will strengthen the law around incitement to hatred or hate speech and online hateful content.
Justice MInister Helen McEntee additionally stated
‘They will be in the guise of aggravated forms of existing criminal offences where offenders are motivated by hatred of a protected characteristic such as race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity and disability,’ according to the Irish Mirror.
The Bill proposes a number of new offences relating to incitement to violence or hatred with penalties of up to five years imprisonment for conviction or indictment.
It sets out the penalties that apply to each specific offense that has been proven to have been motivated by hatred or prejudice against a particular protected characteristic.
All offences that were aggravated by a hate element will incur penalties that are higher than the ordinary form of the offense, unless the penalties are already set at the maximum possible.
The Bill also provides that in any offence, other than the specific aggravated offences, where the Court determines that the perpetrator was motivated by prejudice in carrying out the offence, the Court shall treat that as an aggravating factor in sentencing the person.
The Irish Department of Justice wrote in a statement
Very Well Mind provides a list of “signs” of homophobia. This may include:
- You Use Religion to Condemn the LGBTQ+ Community
- You’re Against the Gay Pride Parade
- If You Are a Man and Avoid Doing Things that Make You “Seem Gay”
- You Don’t Acknowledge Homophobic Behavior
Moreover, the health website also lists “potential causes” of homophobia. The first on the list is religion, they claim.
It’s long been the case that religion can be a cause of homophobia. Certain religions teach that homosexual attraction is immoral or a sin. For this reason, those who ascribe to these religions will grow up with this idea as their cultural understanding. This type of early learning can be challenging to shift or change.
The website also lists “repressed desires, cultural factors, and institutional factors” as potential causes for homophobia.
Furthermore, the health outlet says that there are different types of homophobia: “internalized, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[12] When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden. [28] When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.Proverbs 28:12, 28
Assuming when this bill officially is signed into law, all the institutionalized, corporate, and government-owned church buildings will surely be forced to comply. But hey, as long as they can “still preach the gospel,” then everything will be just peachy – the hirelings and charlatans will say!
Clearly, we are reaching a point where we simply will have totally keep to ourselves, as to avoid causing these arrests.
Even so, the born again believe must not also compromise and cower. Read the situation and your surroundings, and then unashamedly take a stand for the word of God.
[8] Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: [9] Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. [10] For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: [11] Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. [12] For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. [13] And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? [14] But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; [15] But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: [16] Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. [17] For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. 1 Peter 3:8-17
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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All Rome, all Craft, all antichrist, all the way. They believe in pagan evolutionary philosophy, devilish, embracing their sin and darkness, supposedly reconciling, merging, fornicating unifying their ‘opposites’, including their supposed masculine-feminine parts of personality ….soul and spirit. That’s why Jezebel’s priests of Baal castrated themselves etc. We are seeing the end of the Romans 1 decline, the things foretold in the scriptures being manifested. BUT…they are choosing to believe lies & denying truth to believe those things, and are without excuse as written: Romans 1 and 2 Thessalonians 2.
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We are free indeed in Christ, pilgrims here with the earnest of the inheritance & peace within & with God …EVEN if enslaved by men or oppressed by devils along the way, more than victorious, as we continue in the word of God.
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We have some doctrinal differences with Jason Cooley of opbc online and Old Paths Baptist Church of Northfield, MN on the nature & order of the churches, & what I believe is reactionary ‘mid-trib’, pre-wrath eschatology after being schmoozed by Laodicea apostates & hirelings misteaching & cheapening the promises of God…..but that said, he recently preached an awesome message on the life of Joseph and the suffering of the Christian which applies for us all. It reminded me of Bryan’s recent preaching on ‘assessing threats’…and the folly of the humanist fake-it-til-you-make-it self-defeating & saint discouraging ‘perfect’ act of recent picket-fence separation and what used to be called ‘new’ evangelicalism, the mixed multitude & unwise fundamentalist union with Augustinian Calvinists and Romish Daughters with their more subtle Manifest Destiny progressive evolutionary humanist philosophy. Praise God we can come to our senses, repent & return to the Lord and his word & way revealed in the King James Bible & other vernacular equivalents. The God who created language can surely preserve his words for the nations of the world, even as English is the global trade language as Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek once were.
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We strive against sin, flesh and the devil….but must be fully honest & transparent with God & the brethren concerning are frailties, & the humbling of God, the correcting chastening, which comes when we forget that. Some suffering is of that type with all things working to the good of those who are called according to his will and purposes, and some is due to the sin of others….but ALL of it can accrue to God’s glory & reward deferred & to be manifested, the saints exalted according to his perfect timing, mercy & judgment. How amazing is our God, and that Book in which he has chosen to reveal himself, and to quicken & empower whosoever will receive, study to shew themselves approved, continuing in and keeping it come what may, and even to the first death. The ONLY death to which the Christian is ever subject because of sin. Romans 8, 1 Corinthians 15…the pastoral 1&2 Timothy & Titus…..freeing Galatians and Colossians KJB.
Thank you for sharing, very motivating!
Amos 5:13
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Predominantly Catholic, Ireland. Caution in picking our spots when the time comes, with doing work for the Lord and trusting unvetted people. Which certainly God will make known to us.