Discredited physician claims the Equality Act will end Christianity

Michelle Cretella

The hyperbole and false horror stories doesn't stop with the anti-LGBTQ industry when it comes to the upcoming Equality Act vote.

From Right Wing Watch:

Michelle Cretella, the executive director of an anti-LGBTQ pseudo-science organization, said that the Equality Act should actually be called the “Death to Christianity Act.” 

May 10 episode of Washington Watch with Tony Perkins, guest host Sarah Perry, FRC Action’s Director of Partnerships, and Cretella, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians (a right-wing group not to be confused with the professional organization, American Academy of Pediatrics), shared their opposition to the Equality Act, which would seek to add protections for sexual orientation and gender identity into existing anti-discrimination laws. The duo claimed that the proposed legislation would take children who believe they may be transgender and force doctors to “do harm to these kids.” 

“I think it’s really super important for all listeners to realize this law, if it passes, if this bill becomes law, it impacts everyone. And a better name for it is the ‘Death to Christianity Act.’ OK? That’s going to be the umbrella. … Christianity, it will cease to be publicly practiced. It’ll become against the law,” Cretella said.

Right Wing Watch goes to point out that Cretella's group, the American College of Pediatricians, is a SPLC-designated hate group due to how it pushes homophobic cherry-picked and junk science as legitimate research.

Cretella herself is discredited not only because she is associated with that group, but also because in 2017, she was criticized by the The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) for an anti-transgender piece she authored. SAHM said her piece contained eight errors and distortions.

However, in spite of this, conservatives and the anti-LGBTQ industry call upon her as a so-called expert. In March, the Family Research Council brought her on Capitol Hill to lobby against the Equality Act.  And she has been interviewed on Fox News with regards to her "expertise."

It goes without saying that Cretella's prediction about the Equality Act ending Christianity is simply stupid. For the record, I was under the impression that Christianity was destroyed when we passed LGBTQ-inclusive hate crimes protection. After all, folks like Cretella told us that it would lead to Christians being arrested for calling homosexuality a sin. They even created a handout saying so:

How did that work out?