Gary Cass, president of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, is lobbying hard against the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a proposed new federal law aimed to curb homophobic crimes in the United States.

“One of the gravest threats to religious liberty and freedom of speech is proposed hate crime legislation,” Dr Cass says to World Net Daily. “All freedom loving Americans must voice their opposition to this bill. If this bill passes it lays the foundation for censoring Christians. In other countries, like in Canada and Sweden, where these types of hate crime laws have been implemented, pastors and Christians have been jailed and fined for their faithful adherence to biblical values.”

This is a lie. No Swedish pastor has ever been jailed or fined for his or her “faithful adherence to biblical values”.