Equality Act creates 'LGBT rights' – everywhere!
Plan would even gut Religious Freedom Restoration Act, take agenda into churches
So the Supreme Court has
established “same-sex marriage,” and that will quiet the LGBT crowd, because,
after all, they got what they wanted, right?
Not even close.
How about protections for
LGBT people in jobs, jury duty, credit applications, housing, facilities that
provide exhibitions, facilities that provide recreation, facilities that
provide exercise, facilities that provide amusement and even facilities that
provide “gatherings”?
Already, there’s a bill in
Congress to do all those things and much more.
It even would gut the 1993
federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act so LGBT-based discrimination
complaints could be brought against churches that follow the Bible, which
teaches homosexual behavior is a sin.
The “Equality
Act” would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “to include sex,
sexual orientation and gender identity among the prohibited categories of
discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodation.”
It would unilaterally change
public school desegregation standards “to provide for the assignment of
students without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Churches that hold to
biblical beliefs about sexuality would not be immune, according to Paul Kengor,
whose book “Takedown: From
Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage”
addresses the problem.
He shows how, beginning
with Karl Marx and continuing with Margaret Sanger, Wilhelm Reich, Herbert
Marcuse and assorted ’60s radicals, formerly fringe concepts have been
accepted. And they’re being used by leftists to attack traditional marriage.
“I think we’re already
seeing what’s next from the ‘LGBT’ and same-sex-marriage movement – that is, an
aggressive and uncompromising push for forced acceptance, forced compliance,
and forced acquiescence,” he said. “For these people, ‘tolerance’ doesn’t
actually mean ‘tolerance,’ just as ‘diversity’ doesn’t actually mean
‘diversity.’ What they want is a very selective tolerance and very selective
diversity, which, of course, isn’t actually real tolerance or real diversity.
Kengor said they support
what Marcuse called “repressive tolerance.”
“They are going to coerce
those who disagree with their movement and their agenda, and that will include
an aggressive attempt to force religious believers into full compliance with
their movement and their agenda,” he said.
“For that, they will
enlist the long arm of the state, and they will seek to do so with liberal
politicians as their handmaidens. The force will take the form of fines,
pickets, boycotts, demonization and, in some cases, incarceration,” said Kengor
In Kentucky, a county
clerk, Kim Davis, already was put in jail for nearly a week for refusing an
order from U.S. District Judge David Bunning to violate her faith and issue
marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Activists obtained their marriage
licenses from her deputies, under a judge’s order, while she was in jail, and
now they’re taking her to court again demanding she reissue the licenses with
her name on them.
Agenda
At a recent event in
Chicago hosted by the “gay”-rights group Human Rights Campaign, LGBT leaders
discussed their agenda, according to a report from Windy City Media Group.
One aim is passing the
Equality Act.
HRC President Chad
Griffing predicted it would be “the biggest legislative battle in the history
of our movement.”
And he claimed the
movement has the strength “to decide elections,” with its “10 million” voters.
He also charged that Rep.
Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., was attacking families with his plan for the First
Amendment Defense Act, which would protect people and groups from unwarranted
attacks and lawsuits when their actions are based on their religious beliefs
about marriage.
The Equality Act,
sponsored by Rep. David, Cicilline, D-R.I., has been referred to the
Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, and there’s no immediate
time frame for acting.
It guts the protections
written into the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, declaring that beliefs
cannot provide a claim, defense or basis against the progressive agenda of the
LGBT special interests.
Violators would answer to
the U.S. Department of Justice, which would act if it receives a complaint from
someone who claims to suffer discrimination.
Further, it would require
employers to “recognize individuals in accordance with their gender identity if
sex is a bona fide occupational qualification.”
For example, a female
could monitor a boys locker room if she identifies as a male.
Michael Brown, author of “Outlasting the
Gay Revolution,” said the ultimate objective will be to “uproot” all
opposition to LGBT activism.
“That means that churches
will become targets, putting Christian denominations, organizations, schools
and individuals under increasing pressure to affirm homosexuality or else lose
their tax exemption or more,” he said. “It means an attack on all efforts to
help those with unwanted homosexual attractions or gender identity issues, with
a nationwide attack to ban any treatments for those struggling. It means the
complete normalization of transgender identity, imposing this on the rest of
society.”
Brown said tolerance and
acceptance of homosexuality will not be enough.
“There must be celebration
and support, and in the business world, failure to be on the front lines of
promoting the LGBT cause will have serious negative consequences,” he said.
“And in the schools, there must be complete uniformity in celebrating and
promoting LGBT issues.”
His book cites the
opposition that already have developed for not cheering the same-sex agenda.
The principles needed to
outlast the progressive revolution, he said, are: Never compromise your
convictions, take the high moral ground, cherish sexual purity, defend natural
marriage, celebrate gender distinctions, propagate the truth, turn to God and
refuse to throw in the towel.
He said that while it
looks like American society never will be the same, the homosexual activists have
not written the end of the story.
He believes Americans will
start rejecting the bullying tactics against freedoms of religion, speech and
conscience.
The progressive
ThinkProgress writes that the proposed law would add protections for LGBT
people in employment, housing, public accommodations (including transgender
people’s access to the sex-segregated facility that “matches their gender
identity”), public education, federal funding, credit, juries and more.
The website says
“religious exemptions would be maintained,” but it acknowledges RFRA “cannot be
invoked in an attempt to justify discrimination that would otherwise be
covered.”
More than a dozen senators
and nearly 100 House members, all Democrats, have signed on as co-sponsors.
The Daily Signal was
blunt in its report on the bill, noting it “does not protect
equality before the law, but unnecessarily and unjustly violates freedom by
creating special privileges based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Such provisions, the
commentary said, “threaten small-business owners with liability for alleged
‘discrimination’ based not on objective traits, but on subjective and
unverifiable identities.”
“They expand state
interference in labor markets, potentially discouraging job creation. They
endanger religious liberty and freedom of speech. And they mandate employment
policies that, with regard to many workplace conditions, violate common sense.”
Author David Kupelian, in
his just-released “The Snapping of
the American Mind,” wrote, “Many thought same-sex marriage would be
the crowning achievement of the LGBT movement and that the juggernaut would
finally wind down.
“But then, suddenly the
focus shifted to ‘transgender rights,’ with Time magazine’s ‘The Transgender
Tipping Point’ issue trumpeting the headline, ‘America’s next civil rights
frontier,’ and Vice President Joe Biden likewise proclaiming transgender
discrimination ‘the civil right issue of our time.’
“And then – brace yourself
– there were reports of three-year-old children being required to sign a
contract promising they will not use ‘transphobic language’ in nursery school!”
His warning: “The secret
of this never-ending, always-expanding revolutionary movement, in case you
haven’t realized, is that it has the full support of the Far Left. Not because
the Left loves homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals for themselves, but
because finally the Left has found its spear tip, with which – as it has
dreamed of doing for decades – it can effectively attack, wound, marginalize,
demonize, and criminalize its greatest enemy: the Christian religion.”
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