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If Democrats reclaim Congress on November 6, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reportedly plans to wage war on anyone who questions the left’s radical LGBT agenda.
“Democrats will prioritize legislation that would extend federal anti-discrimination protections to the LGBT community, minority leader Nancy Pelosi said recently,” National Review reported.
“The legislation, which Pelosi unveiled during a speech at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, would expand upon the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which currently covers race, religion, gender, and national origin — to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.”
While this may sound reasonable on the face of it, Ryan T. Anderson of the Heritage Foundation warns that such a move would be used to persecute those who don’t subscribe to the left’s non-scientific views on sex and sexuality.
Consider the case of baker Jack Phillips, who’s faced years of harassment, death threats, and lawsuits for refusing to prepare custom cakes that celebrate same-sex unions and transgenderism:
JUST IN: Christian Baker Under Attack Again; This Time Over TRANSGENDER TRANSITION Cake ilovemyfreedom.org/just-in-christ…
Anderson expects this sort of ongoing persecution will only grow worse if Pelosi succeeds in adding a sexuality clause to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Look:
If a Catholic adoption agency works to find permanent homes for orphans where they’ll be raised by a married mom and dad, but won’t place children with two moms and no dad, or two dads and no mom, that’s considered “discrimination” on the basis of “sexual orientation.”If a small business provides health insurance that covers a double mastectomy in the case of breast cancer, but not for women who want to transition and identify as men, that’s considered “discrimination” on the basis of “gender identity.”If a school provides separate bathrooms and locker rooms for male and female students, but won’t let male students who identify as women into the female places, that’s considered “discrimination” on the basis of “gender identity.”
In fact, this sort of persecution has already emerged in certain parts of the country thanks to left-wing state politicians like those in New York.
Earlier this year, an NYC-based Catholic charity was forced to shutter its adoption services because of a new state law prohibiting even religious adoption agencies from refusing to house kids with homosexual parents.
Catholic Charities of Buffalo shuts down adoption services because the state is forcing them to send children to gay couples. You see, church teaching forbids them to do that.
To my friends on the Left, how is this a win for children? dailywire.com/news/35121/cat…
If implemented nationwide, such laws “would impose ruinous liability on innocent citizens for alleged ‘discrimination’ based on subjective and unverifiable identities, not on objective traits,” Anderson warns.
He adds: “They would further increase government interference in markets, potentially discouraging economic growth and job creation.”
They’d also affect the everyday life of millions of Americans, young and old. Schools, hospitals and businesses would likely be forced to cater to the demands of the LGBT lobby.
This would mean, for starter’s, transgender bathrooms/restrooms in every school, every hospital, every public location across the country.
“In short, laws on sexual orientation and gender identity seek to regulate decisions that are best handled by private actors without government interference,” Anderson concludes. “They disregard the conscience and liberty of people of good will who happen not to share the government’s opinions about issues of marriage and sexuality based on a reasonable worldview, moral code, or religious faith.”
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