Obama's Choice for Labor Secretary, Perez's Connection to Amish Prosecuted For Transporting Scissors Across State Line as a Hate Crime

Maybe the title should read persecutes rather than prosecutes.

CHRISTIANS AND NON CHRISTIAN LOVERS OF FREEDOM please give the implications of this story some serious thought!

I hardly know where to start in describing the story I've linked below. Maybe these excerpts will help: (Emphasis are Mine)

"What does the federal hate crimes law inspired by the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. have to do with an internal dispute among the Amish in which the beards of men and the hair of women were forcibly sheared? “The scissors used to cut the hair were manufactured in one state and used in another,” explained Edward Bryan, defense lawyer for Amish bishop Samuel Mullet Sr., who was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.

Mullet was convicted of organizing a series of raids against religious enemies and disobedient family members in which the men’s beards were forcibly sheared and women’s hair was cut. Fifteen other Amish members were sentenced to prison terms of two to seven years. Mullet lost his request Tuesday to be released from prison in Texas while he appeals his conviction and sentencing.

Prosecutors argue the 16 Amish men and women were justly convicted under the hate crimes law because hair has spiritual significance to them.

Savage told WND “The indifference of the Christians and so-called conservative media both revolts and shocks me. They’ve learned nothing from history and are so trapped in their doxies they cannot see injustice unless it is broadcast for them in talking points from the Republican establishment.”

Savage established a legal defense fund for the convicted Amish men and women. (To which you can contribute to here)

Calling Mullet’s 15-year sentence “the most disproportionate I’ve ever seen,” Savage said Obama’s nominee for Labor secretary, Thomas Perez, bears responsibility for the prosecution in his current capacity as assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.

Perez, he said, is “a radical’s radical” who has made carrying scissors across state lines a federal hate crime. “If we do not come to the aid of the Amish, they can trump up a case against anyone for any reason."

Religious Liberty? Anyone remember that?

And how about the obvious question. If this happened in a Muslim context rather than to the Amish, would he have been prosecuted for a HATE CRIME?

Is anyone else so sick of reading insults to freedom like this due to laws based on liberal, progressive, communist ie all of the above DEMOCRAT AGENDAS?

WAKE UP AMERICA YOU MAY BE NEXT!

And while you are awake, please learn more about Perez who faces Senate confirmation hearings NEXT WEEK.

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And after you've checked him out PLEASE contact your Senate representatives, easily at http:congress.org , and after sharing your concerns, tell them to just say no to Perez!