Amending District of Columbia Charitable Solicitation Act: Hearings, Eighty-eighth Congress, First and Second Sessions, on H.R. 5990, August 8-9, 1963 and January 10, 1964

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Considers legislation to revoke charitable solicitation permit of D.C. homosexual organization, Mattachine Society of Washington.
 

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Page 62 - If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Page 108 - If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
Page 62 - For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
Page 61 - For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections; for even their women did change the natural use, into that which is against nature; and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
Page 146 - The infamous crime against nature, either with man or beast, shall subject the offender to be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not more than ten years.
Page 12 - A bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts punishment without a judicial trial. If the punishment be less than death, the act is termed a bill of pains and penalties.
Page 147 - Every person who wanders about the streets at late or unusual hours of the night, without any visible or lawful business: or, 7.
Page 147 - Every person known to be a pickpocket, thief, burglar or confidence operator, either by his own confession, or by his having been convicted of either of such offenses, and having no visible or lawful .means of support...
Page 146 - An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," and any person, firm, corporation, or association, violating any other requirement of this section shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $500, or by imprisonment of not more than one year, or, in the discretion of the court, may be both fined and imprisoned.
Page 61 - Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves...

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