The Equality Act passed the Democratic-led House in 2019 with support from eight Republicans and unanimous support from Democrats, making it likely that it will again pass the House, NPR reported. But the bill’s fate in the Senate is less certain since it would need 60 votes to avoid a filibuster and it is not certain how some of the more moderate Democrats and Republicans will vote on the bill.
H.R.5 would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act with the stated purpose of preventing “discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation.” Should it pass, the legislation would touch a variety of hot button topics including abortion, marriage, family, gender, sexuality, biological males in women’s sports and locker rooms, and more.
Biological Men In Women’s Spaces
Under the Equality Act, individuals who identify as another gender cannot be denied access to the locker room of their choice.
Religious Freedom
The legislation explicitly says that it would trump the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, meaning that Americans could not use the RFRA to challenge and defend against any provisions in the Equality Act that violated their religious freedoms.
“The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 shall not provide a claim concerning, or a defense to a claim under, a covered title, or provide a basis for challenging the application or enforcement of a covered title,” the legislation says.
Abortion
The Equality Act would redefine “sex” to include “pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition,” according to the National Review. The publication noted that federal courts have already interpreted “related medical condition” to include abortion.
read more here: https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/25/the-equality-act-lgbtq-transgender-democrats/
"This is a government using its power to tell us to bow down to the will of a cultural elite in this town who want to tell us what we’re supposed to believe. We’re not going to do that."
— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) February 25, 2021
Rep Roy's full remarks at today's @FreedomCaucus press conference on the Equality Act: pic.twitter.com/RPIbzdSMwv
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Congress Republicans Reps. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., John Katko, R-N.Y., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.,voted for the Equality Act. They must be voted out of office. Traitors all of them.
" “The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 shall not provide a claim concerning, or a defense to a claim under, a covered title, or provide a basis for challenging the application or enforcement of a covered title,” the legislation says. "
Let me translate this for you- ANYTHING THAT DEMOCRAT PERVERTS CLAIM OR ASSERT BOTHERS THEM ABOUT YOUR RELIGION IS THE BASIS FOR A NUSIANCE SUIT YOU WON'T WIN.
Remember, "We just make it up as we go along."
There is nothing equatable about this bill! And don't expect SCOTUS will strike it down - they will probably refuse to hear like everything else!
The Republican party are in the same boat as the Democratic party.
This Equality Act is an abomination to God, religion freedom, women and our children. It will produce additional ungodliness and ensure God's judgement on this country come quicker. God Help us.
You are so correct
that's what the Democratic party wants they vote God out of their party back in the 2012 election.
This is disgusting. What happened to freedom of religion? I expect the SCOTUS will strike this law down.
Hey! Paul it's not going to get better.
Okay who are the 8 Republicans - they have to go (if they are not already gone). When are people going to wake up and realize that a man dressed up like a woman and "claiming" to be a woman because he feels like it (yeah - he does today, but after he has stepped on the rights of the women he competes with and against, he will go right back to being a man) is still a man - he has the physique of a man. Enough is enough. And this is too far!
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