What happens when one religious group doesn’t accept another religious group’s interpretation of God’s plan, but the former’s belief is deemed illegal? From Matthew A. Tsakanikas at crisismagazine.com:
This month Congress passed a resolution to change the religious perspective of the American people as well as practically attempting the forced conversion of Catholics to Zionism.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
In spite of these clear words, this First Amendment right was violated on December 5, 2023, when Southern Baptist and Christian Zionist Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, pushed House Resolution 894 through Congress on that date. Here is the exact language of the violation in the Resolution: “(3) calls on elected officials and world leaders to condemn and fight all forms of domestic and global antisemitism; (4) clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism” [emphasis added].
In a nonbinding resolution, Congress attempted to change the ethos and religious perspective of the American people through a coercive bill that threatens many innocent Americans with the label of hate speech. It practically attempts the forced conversion of Catholics to Zionism. Like the nonbinding “guidelines” of the NIH during the Covid crisis—which led to coercive policy decisions and mandates of government and the private health-care industry, monitoring by Big Tech, and school closures—such nonbinding resolutions (basically guidelines) ultimately still lead to persecutions of people who are unfairly labeled and later found to have been right and/or innocent. Nonbinding resolutions and guidelines lead not only to violations of legal and protected speech but violations of religious freedom and the press. Point #4 of House Resolution 894 was unnecessary to condemn the prior listed abuses of peoples at the start of the Resolution and should be removed immediately.
What happens on social media and in Big Tech when policies already exist and forbid hate speech and then Congress announces resolutions and guidelines that anti-Zionism is hate speech and so redefines antisemitism? Do Palestinian Christians and Muslims in the West Bank have no right to condemn brutal religious colonialism to which even former Israeli government ministers testify against, like Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and retired heads of Israeli security agencies? What about Americans who disagree with Israeli policies? Foreign leaders can silence our freedom of speech? What about judges from the ICC who issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu?
