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| Religious right hoping to pass huge bill under 'Trump Jesus' |
Jay Michaelson from
The Daily Beast has the lowdown on a "religious freedom" bill that the religious right hopes will become law under their "Trump Jesus."
From what he says, this bill is so extreme it would make the legendary religious purist Cotton Mather into an atheist:
The First Amendment Defense Act would allow hospitals, governments,
universities, and businesses to ignore same-sex marriage, deny women
health care, and fire gay people.
The
First Amendment Defense Act is the nuclear version of the so-called “
religious freedom” laws that have appeared
across the country, most infamously in
Mike Pence’s Indiana.
The Republican House will surely pass it, the Senate will pass it
unless it’s filibustered by Democrats, and President-elect Trump has
promised to sign it.
If it becomes law, FADA will be the worst thing to happen to women and LGBT people in a generation.
Like
state “religious freedom restoration acts,” FADA’s basic principle is
that it’s not discrimination when businesses discriminate against LGBT
people if they have a religious reason for doing so. The
most famous situations
have to do with marriage: wedding cake bakers who say that if they bake
a cake, they’re violating their religion; Kim Davis, the government
clerk who said that signing a secular marriage certificate was a
religious act that she could not perform.
The entire article should be required reading for the lgbt community.
The possibility of this bill is also important to remember should the Trump Administration opt to strike first against transgender equality. Any allowance of that by our community would merely opens the door to this bill
