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Maybe this will also give us some idea of how the "hate-crimes" bill will workJun. 8, 2009

     In an item headlined "'Jesus' T-shirt becomes factor in 'hate crimes' argument: Senate, Supreme Court refuse admission for those wearing the slogan on June 2, 2009, Bob Unruh of WorldNetDaily reported that people who have been protesting a plan pending in the U.S. Senate to impose a "hate crimes" law on citizens of the United States say they already are experiencing what life under that law would include, because they are being targeted because of the message on their T-shirts: "Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth." The shirts, promoted on the Operation Save America website, have the slogan "Jesus is the Standard" on the front. Operation Save America spokesman Rev. Flip Benham told WND that people wearing the shirts had assembled recently in Washington to protest S. 909, now pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee after being approved by the U.S. House on a 249-175 vote. But he said police officers providing security at both the U.S. Senate building and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to allow citizens wearing the shirts to enter the buildings. Benham said members of groups he's organized to meet in Washington to oppose the "hate crimes" plan have been threatened with arrest for even going up the Supreme Court's steps while wearing the shirts, and have been forbidden entry in other locations. "If we had a Muslim T-shirt, or a Barack Obama T-shirt, there would be no problem, but it's who we are (as Christians)," he said. Even the children were turned away from the court building unless they turned the shirts carrying Jesus' name inside out, he said. "A lot of T-shirts say a lot of other things (and are allowed)," he said. "It's only Jesus."

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