Posted on 05/08/2019 2:40:52 PM 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."
All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal.
The House of Representatives cannot unilaterally make law, or can they?
Wouldn’t this have to go to the senate for approval there?
And if approved in the senate wouldn’t the president have to sign it before it became law?
I have always wanted to see the 1964 Civil Rights law be amended to state that it only applies to governmental and government funded entities.
The application of the 1964 Civil Rights law has extended way to much governmental power over private businesses to expand the leftist agenda.
It is worse than that. It would be "a man in the restroom who has a right to be there because he claimed to be a woman that day."
Or, a man in the track meet who claimed to be a woman for that event.
The Leftists are not protesting the injustice of man.
They are protesting the injustice of objective reality.
Exactly correct.
A great deal of personal freedom is the freedom to discriminate.
Most of our life choices involve discrimination of some sort or another.
As per the Left's standard operating procedure, they have twisted the language of official, state sponsored discrimination to include all, personal discrimination, whether it is based on fact, logic, or anything else.
They use this emotional argument to restrict our liberties enormously.
It must be fought.
‘My impulse is to turn to heaven and to pray to our God to save us’
I have been doing this, nightly, for nearly 10 years. In the last couple of years, I have decided that the Mueller report and the embarrassing behavior of the Dems must be what the Lord is doing for us.......showing the Dems to be soulless and destructive to our Nation. The only thing that scares me now is the shameless cheating and voter fraud. Unless SOMETHING is done about this, we will not win Nationally, ever again. True Americans are awake and alert and are changing their allegiances. Illegals and those Americans who care not for the Law will be doing their level best to conquer by cheating. WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN!
(I am frightened because we in Arizona elected a Republican Governor and he has done NOTHING about the ballot harvesting and voter fraud that occurred during the 2018 elections. I figure that since he won, he doesn’t care about bringing up the lawbreaking)
Might as well make Drano a “protected breakfast drink” over orange juice.
The Leftists are not protesting the injustice of man.
They are protesting the injustice of objective reality.
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Words worth repeating
Bump
to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity”
The mentally ill as a Protected Class
“Congress passes bill requiring all sporting events to end in a tie.”
I thank the Good Lord there are at least two major stumbling blocks any House legislation must pass:
1. The Senate.
2. President Trump.
I doubt the Senate will pass this travesty of justice. And if they do, I know President Trump won’t sign it.
Let us pray for the safety of President Trump, his family and his advisors.
On the left madness has given way to contact with reality.
If transgenderism is so wonderful why do so many commit suicide? Why do drug companies want to hook them on a lifetime of hormones? Why do Democrats believe this is remotely a civil rights issue?
Upside down logic.
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