There was a time in the not-too-distant past when you could trust the running of the government to the people you elected and sent to Washington. They were paid to represent you; and as long as they didn’t wander too far off the main path, the system worked. Well, those days are gone. Legislation just passed in the House of Representatives has the potential to make you a criminal just for continuing on in the normalcy of your own private life.<\/p>\n
Yesterday The Washington Times<\/a> posted an article about some of the provisions of the Equality Act just passed by the House of Representatives. Among other things, women and girls would have to allow men claiming they were transitioning to women in their locker rooms and restrooms.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n Far from merely expanding civil rights categories, it turns any recognition of the differences between the sexes or any preference for traditional sexual morality into actionable \u201chate,\u201d creating fertile grounds for lawsuits.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt is the most dangerous bill to freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion that has ever been proposed on a national level,\u201d says Houston Baptist University Prof. Robert Gagnon, an expert in biblical sexual morality. \u201cIt will codify into law that you are a bigot, the moral equivalent of a racist, tantamount to being a member of the Klu Klux Klan, who must be shut out of society and, wherever possible, harassed and persecuted for your beliefs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n In other words, it will criminalize Christianity, an ongoing process that got a big boost from the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 2015 ruling on same-sex \u201cmarriage.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n This draconian bill passed by a vote of 236-173, with 8 Republicans joining 228 Democrats. Another 16 Republicans and 7 Democrats did not vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has actually endorsed it. When did destroying the moral order and paving the way for more lawsuits against businesses become part of the chamber\u2019s mission? Pouring legal acid on a marriage-and-family-based culture will not lead to a more stable society of upwardly mobile consumers. America is only as prosperous as its families are strong.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article concludes:<\/p>\n Unless we reassert the primacy of natural marriage and natural sexuality, \u201cour battle will be a losing one,\u201d Mr. Smirak writes. \u201cOur churches will end up essentially illegal. Sooner or later.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n MassResistance, a parents-rights group, has compiled a list of likely outcomes. Here\u2019s a tweaked version:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. It will undermine the civil rights movement that black Americans fought for.<\/strong><\/p>\n 2. Churches will be sued or lose tax-exempt status if they don\u2019t accept LGBTQ behaviors.<\/strong><\/p>\n 3. Schoolchildren will be forced to learn how to engage in destructive LGBTQ behaviors [in California, it begins in kindergarten].<\/strong><\/p>\n 4. Parents who oppose this will be charged with discrimination.<\/strong><\/p>\n 5. Private colleges will lose funding, grants and scholarships.<\/strong><\/p>\n 6. Public accommodations and small businesses will be forced to allow men into women\u2019s bathrooms and vice versa.<\/strong><\/p>\n 7. Business owners will be forced to violate their freedom of conscience.<\/strong><\/p>\n 8. Hospitals, clinics and the armed forces will be forced to offer experimental and harmful transgender treatments \u2014 including surgeries.<\/strong><\/p>\n 9. Foster and adoption agencies will be forced to close, as has already happened to Catholic Charities in several liberal cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n 10. Men will displace women in sports events (already happening).<\/strong><\/p>\n Scenarios like the following case would become common: A Texas father has been charged in a divorce proceeding with child abuse for not \u201caffirming\u201d his 6-year-old son as female. The mother renamed James as \u201cLuna\u201d and makes him wear dresses to school. The father says James is all boy when he visits him, and goes by \u201cJames.\u201d The Equality Act would greatly enhance the mother\u2019s insane quest to turn their son into a girl.<\/strong><\/p>\n The mother also seeks to terminate the father\u2019s visitations and to \u201crequire him to pay for the child\u2019s visits to a transgender-affirming therapist and transgender medical alterations, which may include hormonal sterilization starting at age eight,\u201d writes Walt Heyer, a former transsexual, in the Federalist.<\/strong><\/p>\n Michelle Cretella, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, describes the pediatric community\u2019s encouragement of sex change and hormones for children as \u201cinstitutionalized child abuse.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The Equality Act would federalize such abuse, and religious faith won\u2019t be a shield. Judges will see to that.<\/strong><\/p>\n The bill is far more dangerous than most people know. It\u2019s about time they knew \u2014 and told everyone they can, especially lawmakers.<\/strong><\/p>\n This bill is the death knell for the family-based society that is America. If your Representative voted for it, please vote him or her out of office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was a time in the not-too-distant past when you could trust the running of the government to the people you elected and sent to Washington. They were paid to represent you; and as long as they didn’t wander too … Continue reading