Posted on 05/21/2019 7:33:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democrats in the House are celebrating Friday’s vote to pass The Equality Act, a misnamed legal jackhammer that would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to federal civil rights law.
It goes far beyond allowing men into women’s sports and locker rooms, as bad as that is. It provides the state with the power to persecute anyone who won’t celebrate any aspect of the LGBTQ agenda.
Far from merely expanding civil rights categories, it turns any recognition of the differences between the sexes or any preference for traditional sexual morality into actionable “hate,” creating fertile grounds for lawsuits.
“It is the most dangerous bill to freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion that has ever been proposed on a national level,” says Houston Baptist University Prof. Robert Gagnon, an expert in biblical sexual morality. “It will codify into law that you are a bigot, the moral equivalent of a racist, tantamount to being a member of the Klu Klux Klan, who must be shut out of society and, wherever possible, harassed and persecuted for your beliefs.”
In other words, it would criminalize Christianity, an ongoing process that got a big boost from the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling on same-sex “marriage.”
This draconian bill passed by a vote of 236-173, with 8 Republicans joining 228 Democrats. Another 16 Republicans and 7 Democrats did not vote.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has actually endorsed it, too. When did destroying the moral order and paving the way for more lawsuits against businesses become part of the chamber’s mission? Pouring legal acid on a marriage-and-family-based culture will not lead to a more stable society of upwardly mobile consumers. America is only as prosperous as its families are strong.
Many people are complacent because Republicans control the Senate and won’t allow it to become law – this time. Also, the Trump administration has announced its opposition.
But some weasel GOPers suggest a “carveout” for churches, leaving everyone else – tens of millions of Christians and observant Jews – at the mercy of a government run by LGBTQ activists who have no patience for resistance of any kind. In any case, the bill specifically rules out religion-based defenses.
And what if the GOP loses the Senate or the White House in 2020?
It’s time to educate the public about this bill’s toxic blend of mad science and totalitarian intent, and it won’t be easy.
“All the principalities and powers will cooperate in giving this cudgel to Leviathan,” writes John Smirak at thestream.org. “And to litigious thugs like [Pennsylvania state] Rep. Brian Sims. Guys who hike their testosterone count by bullying women and kids. Ask [Masterpiece Cakeshop owner] Jack Phillips and other victims of Gay Sharia how it feels. That will be the fate of every faithful Christian if this unjust bill becomes law.”
Unless we reassert the primacy of natural marriage and natural sexuality, “our battle will be a losing one,” Mr. Smirak writes. “Our churches will end up essentially illegal. Sooner or later.”
MassResistance, a parents’ rights group, has compiled a list of likely outcomes. Here’s a tweaked version:
1. It will undermine the civil rights movement that black Americans fought for.
2. Churches will be sued or lose tax-exempt status if they don’t accept LGBTQ behaviors.
3. Schoolchildren will be forced to learn how to engage in destructive LGBTQ behaviors [in California, it begins in kindergarten].
4. Parents who oppose this will be charged with discrimination.
5. Private colleges will lose funding, grants and scholarships.
6. Public accommodations and small businesses will be forced to allow men into women’s bathrooms and vice versa.
7. Business owners will be forced to violate their freedom of conscience.
8. Hospitals, clinics and the armed forces will be forced to offer experimental and harmful transgender treatments – including surgeries.
9. Foster and adoption agencies will be forced to close, as has already happened to Catholic Charities in several liberal cities.
10. Men will displace women in sports events (already happening).
Scenarios like the following case would become common: A Texas father has been charged in a divorce proceeding with child abuse for not “affirming” his 6-year-old son as female. The mother renamed James as “Luna” and makes him wear dresses to school. The father says James is all boy when he visits him, and goes by “James.” The Equality Act would greatly enhance the mother’s insane quest to turn their son into a girl.
Civil disobedience, big time if this moves forward.
“The LGBTQ Equality Act Would Criminalize Christianity”
And that is the primary intent.
This is a good indicator of what to expect if/when the Evil Dems take over.
It can’t “move forward”, because nothing the Dems pass in the House will pass the Senate. Everything they are doing is just play-acting to please their base, I don’t know why we even bother to pay any attention to it.
In their eyes, what would be the downside of making Christians the new criminal class?
Equality is such an overhyped virtue.
Of course it would, that’s the idea.
“Civil disobedience, big time if this moves forward.”
Indeed so. Long past time, and we had better be prepared for violence from the left.
Answered by 10x that from us.
Really.
No other way.
Par for the course for 2000 years.
King James Bible
LUKE 21:17
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
Democrats, come on now.
You GOTTA make sure to disarm us before you start a hot civil war.
I mean, JEEZ.
Criminalizing Christianity would be good for Christianity.
“Indeed so. Long past time, and we had better be prepared for violence from the left.”
We saw it at Trump rallies in 2016, while Big Media warned us about Trump supporters.
Our domestic enemies’ violence is just about to begin for the 2020 election.
The Hussein Heads here are beginning to wake up and out themselves again, too.
The SCOTUS "gay marriage ruling" set the USA careening from the top of a steep and slippery slope. It all started with that.
“Criminalizing Christianity would be good for Christianity.”
Hmm, perhaps not at first.
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Now I can get on board with that.
But Islam would get a pass.
See Deuteronomy 28:15-68 or the Book of Jeremiah. The consequences for a nation that rebels against and makes enmity with the Lord.
And yet you can be sure that it will never be enforced against anyone other than “rednecks” and white Catholics. Not only “Blacks and Hispanics,” but the ancient ethnic chrstian communions represented in the United States (who are MIA in the culture wars) will be benevolently ignored.
Because...if/when there is no stop to this craziness (Senate majority)...it WILL HAPPEN...and people need to know the INTENT of the LEFT...it helps the Right to educate.
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