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Agnostics, Orthodox Jews, Catholics and Evangelicals Agree: The ‘Equality Act’ Passed by Congress is Dangerous to Human Rights
The Stream ^
| 02/25/2021
| Dr. Michael Brown
Posted on 02/25/2021 8:50:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Newsweek article by Natasha Chart and Rabbi Yaakov Menken begins with these words: “It would be hard to accuse an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and an agnostic feminist leader of walking in lockstep.” All the more would this be true if you added Catholics to the mix, then threw in some evangelicals. What cause could bring such disparate people together, all united as one?
Religious Rights and Women’s Rights at Stake
As Chart and Menken wrote, “We agree entirely that the Equality Act is a fatally flawed, and even hateful, piece of legislation.” Or, as expressed by the chairmen of five U.S. bishops’ committees, the Equality Act will “discriminate against people of faith” — meaning, of Christian faith or other faiths.
As summed up by evangelical leader Mat Staver, “HR 5 is a bill that pushes the LGBT agenda on all people and targets Christianity in every area of life — including the church. There will be an increase of instances where Christians and others are being punished unless they violate their beliefs in order to comply with such a law. And that is just the beginning of unconstitutional chaos in America.”
It’s one thing to stand against the mistreatment of those who identify as LGBTQ (or anything else). It’s another thing to turn the world upside down, throw out common sense and logic, and trash the religious liberties of the majority of the nation in the name of equality.
In short, not only would religious beliefs be trampled in the name of “equality,” but simple human rights — most specifically, women’s rights — would be trampled as well.
That’s why many people of faith and non-faith are uniting together against the so-called Equality Act.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catholics; congress; equalityact; evangelicals; humanrights; orthodoxjews
To: SeekAndFind
I’m an Atheist and I agree; I definitely do not like the Equality Act.
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posted on
02/25/2021 8:52:59 PM PST
by
Tacrolimus1mg
(Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
To: SeekAndFind
Here are some potential scenarios.
An out and proud gay schoolteacher wants to teach at an Orthodox Jewish day school. Under the Equality Act, the school could not refuse him a job because his out and proud lifestyle violated Jewish law. That would be discrimination. As for Orthodox Jewish synagogues, if challenged, they would not be allowed to have separate seating for men and women at public events. Discrimination again!
What if a biological male who identifies as a female, yet still likes to sport a 5-o’clock shadow, wants to work at a Christian preschool, reading stories to the children? The school could not say, “We’re sorry, but we’re not hiring you. That would be confusing to the children.” Under the Equality Act, that would now be discrimination.
You are a professional counselor, and an 18-year-old girl struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions comes to you for help. She had been raped when she was 12 and since then, has found men repulsive. Yet she always wanted to be married and have children and she’s interested in getting to the root of her unwanted same-sex attractions. Under the Equality Act, counseling her would be illegal.
You run a women’s shelter for abused women and have always refused to house biological males who identify as transgender women. You have limited facilities, and there’s no way your clients, already traumatized, should be forced to share showers and bathrooms and bedrooms with biological males. Under the Equality Act, you would be forced to accept transgender “women.”
You are the principal of a public school with an excellent girls’ track team, and your top female athletes win college scholarships on a regular basis. Under the Equality Act, you would be forced to allow boys who identify as girls to compete with the girls, thereby robbing them of both victories and scholarships, not to mention personal dignity. (One website pointed out that, “In 2018, 275 high school boys ran the 400 meter faster than the lifetime best of Olympic Team USA member and world-record-holding sprinter Allyson Felix, while in 2017 thousands of men ran the 400 meter faster than any of the world’s three fastest women.”)
Your church building is used to host weddings on a regular basis. Under the Equality Act, you will not be allowed to say no to same-sex couples, even though this violates historic tenets of your faith. EXPECT LAWSUITS GALORE AGAINST YOUR SCHOOL, CHURCH AND ORGANIZATION IF YOU SO MUCH AS TRY TO STAND ON YOUR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.
To: SeekAndFind
Of course the dems want this..If it destroys the constitution or Trump ,they embrace and want it..
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posted on
02/25/2021 8:56:37 PM PST
by
Hambone 1934
(When will the dems turn the US into Venezuela????)
To: SeekAndFind
I do not believe in protected civil rights status for LGBQT nor any other perversion. This law is about destroying morality in American society forever.
To: FlyingEagle
This is all about the decline and fall of the American empire.
Get ready for Kamaligula.
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posted on
02/25/2021 9:35:21 PM PST
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: SeekAndFind
Bkmk. Possibly setting up for the abomanation of desolation.
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posted on
02/25/2021 10:10:36 PM PST
by
kelly4c
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
02/25/2021 10:32:21 PM PST
by
tbw2
To: FlyingEagle
I keep reading this law is bent on destroying USA morality. That’s why Trump is such a threat.
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posted on
02/26/2021 12:02:45 AM PST
by
NetAddicted
(Just looking)
To: SeekAndFind
on the road to becoming another special administrative area of mainland china
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posted on
02/26/2021 1:27:52 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
02/26/2021 2:08:43 AM PST
by
SES1066
(I love my Country, but I fear too much Government!)
To: SeekAndFind
“Agnostics, Orthodox Jews, Catholics and Evangelicals Agree: The ‘Equality Act’ Passed by Congress is Dangerous to Human Rights”
Maybe not these Republicans (or most of them), but you know, if the Republican Party wasn’t so busy DEFENDING ELECTION FRAUD and helping to orchestrate a coup by the Democrats, perhaps they would be on their heels trying to stop crap like this bill from becoming law.
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posted on
02/26/2021 4:20:48 AM PST
by
BobL
To: BobL
Well at least they still have the support of the Methodists; Muslims; and Mormons.
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posted on
03/01/2021 6:16:48 AM PST
by
SJackson
(If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun...folks in Philly like a good brawl, BH Obama)
To: CoastWatcher
Methodists, Muslims and Morms, oh my.
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posted on
03/01/2021 6:20:04 AM PST
by
Eleutheria5
("The impossible happens all they time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
To: SeekAndFind
What do the Muslims think about boys in the girl’s bathrooms and locker rooms?
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posted on
03/01/2021 1:10:17 PM PST
by
Rusty0604
(" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
To: SJackson
Thanks. Am I missing Muslim reaction? What about all the Muslim bakeries sued for refusing to bake gay wedding cakes?
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posted on
03/01/2021 1:14:08 PM PST
by
Rusty0604
(" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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