The Equality Act, passed last week by the House and awaiting a Senate vote, is a comprehensive LGBTQ rights bill. The religious right is attacking the bill in the same manner it attacks all things pro-LGBTQ - via bad science, horror stories, and out-and-out lies.
The Family Research Council has just come out with a booklet denouncing the Equality Act. Calling it a booklet is being nice on my part because it's actually a mess. FRC throws so many arguments against the Equality Act that the booklet gives an impression of sad desperation.
I am not going to link it because one of the claims turned my stomach:
The Equality Act would also virtually do away with sex-segregated spaces, meaning women and girls would no longer have privacy when in publicly accessible bathrooms, locker rooms, and other such spaces. Similar laws mandating SOGI in public accommodations at the local and sate level have already resulted in litigation. In one case, a kindergartener was assaulted by a boy classmate in her school's bathroom.
Any type of assault is nothing to make light of, particularly that of children. We must always be careful to guard against it. We should also be careful to get all of the facts before making claims of assault
But in this case, it would appear that FRC didn't bother to.
