Posted on 05/09/2019 10:11:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
The House Judiciary Committee has voted out the Equality Act of 2019. It now heads for a vote on the House floor with 240 co-sponsors, which means its passage is virtually certain.
The legislation amends all major civil rights law, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act, to include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" along with race, sex and religion as classes that are protected from discrimination.
There is so much wrong here it is hard to know where to start.
My dictionary defines psychosis as "a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality."
We now have a majority of members of Congress who are prepared to pass into law that the sex individuals are born with -- their chromosomal and physical reality -- will take a back seat to how those individuals choose to define their own sexual identity. Henceforth, we'll be done with the idea that there is some objective reality independent of what of any particular individual decides it is.
I once complained that our society was denying morality -- right and wrong. Now we're beyond this. We're denying reality in its entirety.
Please, read again the definition of psychosis. We're simply going crazy.
My impulse is to turn to heaven and pray to our God to save us.
But even the reality of our God, to whom the signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 turned for "protection," and to whom they pledged "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor," is widely being brought into question.
The situation is dangerous. Hopefully, this disaster will be stopped.
First, let's appreciate that this is oppression dressed up in language of freedom and justice.
Religious freedom goes out the window if this bill becomes law.
It explicitly defines itself as overriding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that can protect people, such as Christian baker Jack Phillips, from being forced to do commerce that violates their Christian convictions.
There will be no more legal protections for Christians in commerce or in any other circumstance to enable them to avoid complicity with behavior that for them is sin.
A bizarre list of behaviors will become legally protected and enshrined in a new America that will be the total antithesis of the ideals of liberty envisioned by its founders.
I will have to start to worry that my little granddaughter will encounter a man in the restroom who has a right to be there because he thinks he is a woman.
Under the guise of civil rights, our public schools will be forced to teach this sexual nihilism as truth, and teaching the traditional values that have held the American family together will become an actionable offense.
We're talking about civil tyranny, not civil rights.
Civil rights law was designed to protect human dignity by preventing individuals from being reduced to pre-existing realities not connected to their personal choices, such as race. Now with this law, the sexual behavior they choose, and the sex they decide they are, will receive the same protections.
The culture of meaninglessness, driving perverse legislation such as the Equality Act of 2019, will destroy us.
We must vigilantly fight to prevent it from passing into law, as we recall the words of historian Arnold Toynbee: "An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide."
Let’s see what the senate does to it. :)
I identify as General Patton. Call me general or I’ll sue you and, thanks to this bill, if it becomes law I’ll win. :)
Probably no more destructive than the 1964 ‘civil rights’ act.
...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one's own family.
Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.
Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse.
Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse.
And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday's Diversity is today's intolerable lack of Diversity.
Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.
Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.
“Probably no more destructive than the 1964 ‘civil rights’ act.”
I have had clients who thought aliens were injecting thoughts into their brains. I had clients who thought they were animals and acted like it. I had girls who were anorexic and were hospitalized because they weighed 70 lbs and thought they were hideously fat. The common thread is that they have lost contactwith and deny objective reality. How are men who believe themselves to be women any different from these examples? The mind cannot deny or transcend biology, these people have lost contact with reality.
Biological men who are xy chromosome are not women. Objective reality is they are men. Laws cannot undo that.
How about adding all forms of commerce modified for the betterment or detriment based of political aspirations, affiliations, communications or memberships.
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