Posted on 11/21/2021 6:28:00 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
The Fairness For All Act (FFAA), an all-Republican bill that would make sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) a federally protected class in return for certain “right to discriminate” carve-outs for dissenting religious institutions, was originally introduced in 2019 by Representative Chris Stewart of Utah. Stewart, whose district went for Donald Trump by 16 points in 2020 — up two from 14 points in 2016 — reintroduced the bill at the outset of the 2021 congressional session with the backing of such well-known Republicans as Elise Stefanik, Nancy Mace, and Burgess Owens. This is the full list of the FFAA’s co-sponsors:
Chris Stewart (Utah) Fred Upton (Mich.) Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) John Curtis (Utah) Mark Amodei (Nev.) Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) Andrew Garbarino (N.Y.) Blake Moore (Utah) Burgess Owens (Utah) Carlos Gimenez (Fla.) Chris Jacobs (N.Y.) Claudia Tenney (N.Y.) Jeff Van Drew (N.J.) Jenniffer González-Colón (P.R.) Maria Salazar (Fla.) Mario Díaz-Balart (Fla.) Mike Simpson (Idaho) Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.) Steve Stivers (Ohio) Tom Reed (N.Y.)
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No surprise there. His FAKE TEARS during the Jan 6th fiasco hearings sure made him look GAY.
I don't care what fagots and degenerates do in the privacy of their bed rooms. Never have. I do object quite vociferously when the queers and gender confused shove it down my throat saying it is an acceptable alternative life style.
BINGO!
We all knew about Elise so it’s no surprise.
It was just a matter of time.
such well-known Republicans as Elise Stefanik, Nancy Mace, and Burgess Owens......
I thought owens was a man of God.
Will unsubscribe to his mailers. Frees up funds for more worthy candidates.
Primary these traitors
But you’re describing exactly how we started our toboggan run down the slippery slope. People who didn’t want to appear “intolerant” were just icing up the sledding hill for what was to come. Once we allow shameful practices to be considered anything less than shameful, the horse is out of the barn and it’s not coming back. Allowing homosexuality to be considered just a personal preference, like any other, and something that the rest of society is fine with so long as it doesn’t intrude upon their lives, absolutely guarantees that homosexuals will use that air of legitimacy to demand ever increasing “rights.”
Moral issues are threshold issues. There are no gray areas. It would be like saying, “I don’t care if people murder each other in their own homes, so long as they don’t bring their murdering ways to my neighborhood.” That attitude eventually leads to waking up one day “shocked” that the same people are now rampaging through your neighborhood, looting stores at will, playing “the knockout game” on city streets, or using their car to mow down innocent people at a parade (all while claiming that THEY are the victims, of course).
Protecting public morality is a non-optional necessity for protecting freedom. A laissez-faire attitude toward morality will guarantee a degenerate society with rapidly-diminishing freedom. Our nations’s founders knew this, which is why John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Why are LDS so pro-tranny?
These people are pathetic politicians with no moral grounding. To prove their commitment to the cause, the men should appear in dresses and use public ladies rooms.
Sorry to see Elise Stephanik on the list. I thought she was one of the good ones.
Well stated, noiseman. Kudos.
EVIL!!! PRIMARY THEM!
"She had originally started her career as a staffer in the George W. Bush administration ..." -- she's been groomed to grow up to be a professional politician. Joined all the right clubs and so on. Her circle of influence is the elite political class.
The ‘lesser of two evils’ spreads its wings.
elections have consequences time to oust them all, REMMEBER
It didn't used to!!
"All of this should be conveyed without having priesthood leaders focus upon intimate matters which are a part of husband and wife relationships. Skillful interviewing and counseling can occur without discussion of clinical details by placing firm responsibility on individual members of the Church to put their lives in order before exercising the privilege of entering a house of the Lord. The First Presidency has interpreted oral sex as constituting an unnatural, impure, or unholy practice. If a person is engaged in a practice which troubles him enough to ask about it, he should discontinue it."
- Official Declaration of the First Presidency of the Church, January 5th, 1982
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| Spencer W. Kimball | Boyd K. Packer | N. Eldon Tanner | Marion G. Romney |
"Among the most common sexual sins our young people commit are necking and petting. Not only do these improper relations often lead to fornication, [unwed] pregnancy, and abortions - all ugly sins - but in and of themselves they are pernicious evils, and it is often difficult for youth to distinguish where one ends and another begins. They awaken lust and stir evil thoughts and sex desires. They are but parts of the whole family of related sins and indiscretions. Almost like twins, 'petting' and fornication are alike."
- Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, page 65
"Also far-reaching is the effect of the loss of chastity. Once given or taken or stolen it can never be regained. Even in a forced contact such as rape or incest, the injured one is greatly outraged. If she has not cooperated and contributed to the foul deed, she is of course in a more favorable position. There is no condemnation where there is no voluntary participation. It is better to die in defending one's virtue than to live having lost it without a struggle."
- Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, page 196
"And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth." (Genesis 4:9-14.) That was true of murder. It is also true of illicit sex, which, of course, includes all petting, fornication, adultery, homosexual acts, and all other perversions. The Lord may say to offenders, as He did to Cain, "What hast thou done?" The children thus conceived make damning charges against you; the companions who have been frustrated and violated condemn you; the body that has been defiled cries out against you; the spirit which has been dwarfed convicts you. You will have difficulty throughout the ages in totally forgiving yourself."
-Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, "Love Versus Lust", BYU Speech January 5, 1965. Often-used quote still used today in LDS seminary classes.
"I do not find in the Bible the modern terms "petting" nor "homosexuality," yet I found numerous scriptures which forbade such acts under by whatever names they might be called. I could not find the term "homosexuality," but I did find numerous places where the Lord condemned such a practice with such vigor that even the death penalty was assessed."
- Apostle Spencer W. Kimball, "Love Versus Lust", BYU Speech January 5, 1965
"If adultery or fornication justified the death penalty in the old days, and still in Christ's day, is the sin any less today because the laws of the land do not assess the death penalty for it? Is the act less grievous? There must be a washing, a purging, a changing of attitudes, a correcting of appraisals, a strengthening toward self-mastery. There must be many prayers, and volumes of tears. There must be an inner conviction giving to the sin its full diabolical weight. There must be increased devotion and much thought and study. And this takes energy and time and often is accompanied with sore embarrassment, heavy deprivations and deep trials, even if indeed one is not excommunicated from the Church, losing all spiritual blessings."
-Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, Page 155
"How like the mistletoe is immorality. The killer plant starts with a sticky sweet berry. Little indiscretions are the berries -- indiscretions like sex thoughts sex discussions, passionate kissing, pornography. The leaves and little twigs are masturbation and necking and such, growing with every exercise. The full-grown plant is petting and sex looseness. It confounds, frustrates, and destroys like the parasite if it is not cut out and destroyed, for, in time it robs the tree, bleeds its life, and leaves it barren and dry; and, strangely enough, the parasite dies with its host."
- Apostle Spencer W. Kimball, General Conference Address, April 1, 1967.
https://exploringmormonism.com/boyd-k-packer-and-a-whole-new-sin/
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