Posted on 05/25/2016 8:08:04 AM PDT by Cyberman
To the casual observer, it would seem that gay rights falls neatly on the political spectrum. Democrats champion bills that aim to protect LGBT people from discrimination, and Republicans increasingly propose and pass ones aimed to protect the religiously devout.
But there's growing evidence that Republicans in Congress and across the country are sidestepping the more controversial religious protection and bathroom bills and, in some cases, embracing LGBT non-discrimination laws instead....
And more broadly, Republicans in Congress, Southern-state governors and a business community that usually aligns with the GOP seem to be eschewing some of the more controversial religious freedom and bathroom bills and the drama that often comes with it. And rather than citing a friend or family member who's gay or transgender, they're citing political reasons for stepping out of the debate. Here are four of the big ones:
1. Businesses aren't on board
When North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed his state's law... his opponent seized not on McCrory's alleged affront to LGBT rights, but instead opted for a different attack: McCrory is bad for business....2. The party's current LGBT position isn't winning them any new constituents
The problem with many of these religious freedom and bathroom bills, Dent told The Fix, is that they leave their supporters open to accusations they support discrimination....3. Stepping into bathrooms and businesses is big government
Another argument you hear LGBT advocates make is that Republicans are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist....4. The bills are more drama than they're worth
"We know as soon as this bill passes, we're going to be sued." Tennessee state Rep. Susan Lynn (R) said that in April as she pulled her bathroom bill from the legislature....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
>>>GO READ THE WHOLE THING.<<<
glad i took your advise. very deep write-up. i think i have a better idea now about what was happening “in the days of Noah”...... and also in Sodom and Gomorra in the time of Lot... ... and now
Patriots, as mentioned in related threads, please note that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect politically correct LGBT rights. The only sex-related right that the states have amended the Constitution to protect is voting rights as evidenced by the 19th Amendment.
The 19th Amendment expressly gives the feds the power to strengthen only sex-related voting rights.
So by making vote-winning laws and policies that protect so-called LGBT rights, federal officials not only dont have the constitution authority to make such laws, but both state and federal officials are also unthinkingly effectively violating the Founding States prohibition on protected / privileged classes imo, as evidenced by the following constitutional provisions.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States [emphasis added]: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility [emphases added].
And when misguided, low-information, pro-LGBT state officials use politically correct, constitutionally unprotected LGBT rights to trump constitutionally enumerated protections like 1st Amendment-protected religious expression, then they are also violating Section 1 of the 14th Amendment imo.
14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
And the reason that citizens with religious convictions arent using the constitutional provisions referenced above to protect themselves from government harassment is because they probably dont know that these statutes exist.
Regarding business owners using these statutes to protect themselves from misguided, pro-LGBT state officials and other likewise low-information LGBT supporters, note that Acts 22:23-30 indicates that Paul claimed his rights as a Roman citizen to save himself from being flogged.
In other words, some “Republicans” are RINO’s.
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