6 Reasons to Oppose the Orwellian 'Equality Act'

On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5, “The Equality Act.” Three Republicans joined with every single Democrat to support the bill, which now moves to the Senate. The bill will require 60 votes to pass in the Senate, due to the filibuster. Conservatives and other Americans concerned about the act should reach out to their senators and urge them to oppose the bill.

The bill would amend federal law to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, among other things. It would expand the arenas in which non-discrimination law applies and explicitly gut religious freedom protections.

In true Orwellian fashion, the Democrats have crafted an Equality Act that will promote inequality, enabling the government to privilege LGBT ideology over the Americans who disagree, for religious or other reasons. The Equality Act opens the door to a host of governmental actions to stifle dissent and enforce orthodoxy on LGBT issues, particularly the divisive claims of transgender activism.

The bill explicitly endorses the Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), which redefined discrimination on the basis of “sex” to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. This arguably constituted an abuse of power, since the plain meaning of “sex” does not include sexual orientation or gender identity and since Congress could not possibly have intended to prohibit this kind of discrimination decades before same-sex marriage.

Here are five reasons to oppose the Equality Act and to contact your senators and representatives to pressure them to vote against this horrific piece of legislation.

This statement was in an e-mail this morning from NTEB. . .
America has become Egypt, Babylon and Sodom all rolled into one, she has been weighed in the balance and found wanting, and her kingdom is finished. It took exactly 36 days from the time that Joe Biden was sworn in for the all-out and open assault on America to begin, as well as the reemergence of the endless wars of the military-industrial complex with yesterday’s strike on the nation of Syria. The Equality Act, passed in the House yesterday, when it passes the Senate with the tie-breaking vote from Kamala Harris will officially codify into law America’s hatred for God, His Son and for His preserved Words found in your King James Holy Bible.

Hosea 10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

Luke 23:30
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

Revelation 6:16
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

With all due respect to Mr. O’Neil, if he would read Free Republic then he would know that there is a 7th very important reason to oppose the Equality Act.

Simply put, the only power that the states have expressly constitutionally given to Congress to make sex-related discrimination laws limits those laws to voting rights issues evidenced by the 19th Amendment.

"19th Amendment:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added]."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Many Democratic and RINO lawmakers should lose their jobs under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment imo for rebelling against the federal government's constitutionally limited powers by making a law which blatantly unconstitutionally expands those powers.

"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [emphasis added], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

When properly formed and based on a full context of knowledge, concepts refer to reality and are objective, valid, and true.When we designate some humans as “men” we refer to a fact of reality that they are humans who possess the same distinguishing characteristic (anatomically and/or genetically) which differentiates them from women, though the measurements of the distinguishing characterisic qua men, as well as of all other characteristics qua humans are different.
A valid concept of “man” is not arbitrary or accidental, whether personal or social, emotialistic or subjective.

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