So this bill did pass, and it became the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. This caller thinks, or at least this is what I imagined, this caller thinks that the bill is designed to protect gay people from religious persecution, but it was actually about creating some governmental bodies that would monitor religious groups who were being persecuted in other countries and advocate on their behalf.

It says, for example, now I'm reading from this, for example, if the practice of homosexuality becomes defined as a religion, then any group opposing homosexuality could be classed as violating their religious rights, and then any of its members could be universally fined, jailed, or monetarily ostracized anywhere in the world. Yeah, they're trying to sell us the system. And they're going to use neocons to sneak it through on us, and it is, I mean, I just read the article in England where the guy used a word and they arrested him.