A pro-family group based in the nation's capital is decrying the not-so-thinly-veiled implications of an alarming Homeland Security report on "rightwing extremism."
While stating it has "no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence," the department's unclassified nine-page report issued last week -- and brought to public attention this week -- has raised the concerns of pro-family groups. Janice Crouse, a spokeswoman for Washington, DC-based Concerned Women for America, explains. "Here you have a group of people who are in charge of Homeland Security portraying conservative Christian people as people the nation really needs to be afraid of," notes Crouse. "It's so alarmist. It's spreading fear and suspicion, and it's demonizing those of us who hold true traditional values." According to Crouse, those are the values held by mainstream America and that are at the foundation of the U.S. Constitution. The report places opponents of abortion and homosexual "marriage" at the same level as inter-racial crimes. Crouse tells OneNewsNow the report is a direct attack on the church. "[It's] a direct assault on the basic principles of religious beliefs that have been here since the time of Christ," she argues. "These are the things that Christ died on the cross for." The CWA spokeswoman finds another aspect of the report "scary" -- specifically that the federal government is "launching major efforts to 'limit' domestic social conservatives...at the same time that it is downplaying the threat of Islamic terrorists who have plainly stated their intent to harm our nation." Crouse sees the Homeland Security report as very dangerous and something that requires a very measured, but a very strong and a very firm response.
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