US House will vote on pro-abortion, pro-LGBT Equality Act next week
by David McLoone, LifeSite;
The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote next week on radical pro-abortion and pro-LGBT Equality Act.
The act, which was passed by the Democrat-controlled House in 2019, but blocked by the Senate then controlled by Republicans, would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include “sex,” “sexual orientation,” and “gender identity” among expressly recognized “non-discrimination” categories in “public accommodations,” which would also be expanded to include many additional types of establishments including recreation, shopping, online retailers, healthcare services, and more.
It would also force anyone employing 15 or more people to recognize people’s claimed “gender identity,” forbid employers from “discriminating” based on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity,” and mandate transgender “access” to opposite-sex restrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released a document this month which lays out the “adverse impact on existing provisions that prohibit the use of federal funds for abortion” which could be brought about by the implementation of the Equality Act. If successful, the bill could use coercion to force taxpayers to fund abortion and even make doctors, nurses, and faith-based hospitals perform abortions.
In accordance with President Joe Biden’s firm promise that the act’s passage would be “the first thing I ask to be done,” he has prioritized the bill for consideration by the Democrat-controlled Congress. Given the bill’s prior success in the House, it is expected to pass.
[…] Over a year after the Equality Act was passed by the House, Senate Republicans shot the bill down in June, with Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) remarking that, contrary to the suggestion of the bill’s name, the so-called Equality Act does not take care “to ensure that religious employers will be treated fairly.”
“We need to be mindful of the need of a religious employer to maintain its doctrine and teachings, not only in the hiring of its ministers,” said Lee, but also for the sake of “others who look to that religious institution’s teachings, in the way they live their lives, in their beliefs, and in their willingness to teach those things to others.”
“This legislation doesn’t do that,” Lee declared at the time.
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