{"id":48198,"date":"2022-11-25T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48198"},"modified":"2022-11-25T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:03:15","slug":"the-respect-for-marriage-act-doesnt-respect-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48198","title":{"rendered":"The Respect For Marriage Act Doesn’t Respect Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, The Conservative Review<\/a> posted an article about The Respect for Marriage Act that is now making its way through Congress. The Respect for Marriage Act is nothing more than the Biden administration (and Congress’) attempt to silence people who support and believe in traditional marriage.<\/p>\n

The article explains the consequences of passing this law:<\/p>\n

What will happen is this: Christians, Jews, Muslims, and anyone else who dares maintain that marriage is a lifelong conjugal union between one man and one woman \u2014 the definition of marriage for thousands of years until the U.S. Supreme Court descended from Mount Sinai with\u00a0Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em>\u00a0inscribed on stone tablets \u2014 will be branded a bigot and driven from the public square and marketplace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyone who owns a small business related to the wedding industry \u2014 photographers, bakers, website designers, venue owners, caterers, florists \u2014 will be sued into oblivion if they refuse services to same-sex couples. Religious colleges and universities will lose their tax-exempt status. Religious institutions of every kind, if they hold to their teachings and traditions about marriage, will face an onslaught from the Department of Justice and the federal bureaucracy.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

To paraphrase George Orwell\u2019s famous line, if you want a picture of the future under the Respect for Marriage Act, imagine a boot stamping on Jack Phillips\u2019 face \u2014 forever.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The untrammeled exercise of power and the vigorous crushing of dissent is\u00a0the entire purpose<\/em>\u00a0of the proposed law. There can be no other possible justification for it. Michael New, an assistant professor at the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, recently\u00a0told The Daily Signal<\/a>\u00a0that Catholic colleges and universities in particular might face ruinous lawsuits and loss of federal funding if the bill is signed into law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The justification for the bill is just as outlandish and offensive as the argument that it presents no danger to religious Americans. In the wake of the\u00a0Dobbs<\/em>\u00a0decision this summer, we were warned that some future Supreme Court opinion, following Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019s logic, could overturn\u00a0Obergefell<\/em>\u00a0and other substantive due process rulings such as\u00a0Loving v. Virginia<\/em>, which struck down state laws banning interracial marriage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The purpose of this claim, in case it isn\u2019t bone-crushingly obvious, is to lump opponents of gay marriage in with opponents of interracial marriage, to smear them as bigots who aren\u2019t just on the wrong side of history, but who are about to be on the receiving end of a federal government empowered to go after them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And if you think that can\u2019t really be how proponents of the Respect for Marriage Act think about traditional-minded Americans, go ask Jack Phillips\u00a0how he\u2019s faring<\/a>\u00a0after winning his Supreme Court case in 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a bad bill. Any Republican who supports this bill should be subject to a primary challenge during the next election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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