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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Chip Roy Demands Answers After Austin Fire Dept Dismisses Chaplain For Saying Boys And Girls Are Biologically Different

Roy, who represents parts of Austin, wants to know why the fire department thinks it’s OK to violate the chaplain’s First Amendment rights.

Last month, the Austin Fire Department dismissed its volunteer lead chaplain, Dr. Andrew Fox, for his refusal to apologize for a personal blog post in which he expressed the majoritarian and utterly common-sense view that men and women are biologically different and that men should not be allowed to compete against women in sports.

Fox, a protestant minister who founded the fire department’s chaplaincy program eight years ago, sued the department for violating his First Amendment rights, and he will almost certainly prevail.

But the city’s fire department might not even get off as easily as losing a lawsuit. On Thursday, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who represents part of the Austin area, sent a letter to Joel Baker, chief of the city’s fire department, saying the complaints in Fox’s lawsuit are “justly concerning” and that, if true, “create a troubling standard for the exercise of free speech and freedom of religion and are likely unconstitutional.”

Roy goes on: “Is it the belief of the Austin Fire Department that the removal of Dr. Fox was not a violation of the First Amendment? Does the Austin Fire Department consider religious beliefs or expression when making hiring and firing decisions?”

The congressmen’s point, of course, is that Fox’s firing has implications far beyond this one case. If, as seems likely, the city’s fire department has a habit of discriminating against chaplains or firefighters or anyone else employed by the department based on their religious beliefs, then department officials are in blatant violation of federal civil rights law, and they have a lot more to worry about than a single lawsuit from Fox.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/01/exclusive-rep-chip-roy-demands-answers-after-austin-fire-dept-dismisses-chaplain-for-saying-boys-and-girls-are-biologically-different/

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Tonight, @GOPLeader defended Americans from the Radical Ruthless Democrats running Washington and vaporized Biden’s wretched blizzard of slander, smears and lies.

McConnell, by contrast, appears to be sitting the midterms out?

They never give up.

Democrat committee reaches deal to get SOME of Trump’s financial records

A House committee seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump has reached an agreement that ends litigation on the matter and requires an accounting firm to turn over some of the material, the panel’s leader announced Thursday.

The long-running case began in April 2019, when the House Committee on Oversight and Reform first subpoenaed a wealth of records from Trump’s then-accounting firm, Mazars USA. The committee cited testimony from Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, that it said raised questions about the president’s representation of his financial affairs when it came to seeking loans and paying taxes.

Trump is facing investigations on several fronts, including the storage of top-secret government information discovered at his Mar-a-Lago home and whether the former president’s team criminally obstructed the inquiry. In Georgia, prosecutors are investigating whether he and allies illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. Meanwhile, congressional committees are following through on investigations that began when he was president.

You may be wondering why Trump would agree to this? Well the settlement comes AFTER a judge said the committee could only aks for certain records:

https://therightscoop.com/democrat-committee-reaches-deal-to-get-some-of-trumps-financial-records/