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President Clinton recently signed Executive Order (EO) 13107, Implementation of Human Rights Treaties. The new EO requires federal, state, and local governments to comply immediately with all United Nations treaties, whether or not those treaties have been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as required by the Constitution. One of these treaties, the UN Treaty on Genocide, says that persuading someone to change his or her religion is a hate crime punishable by international law. The new EO 13107 is expected to be used by the newly established Office of Religious Persecution Monitoring to arrest and imprison Christian missionaries and witnesses anywhere in the world who preach Jesus only. From now on, this will be considered a hate crime—genocide.
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