GOPs next battle against gay rights: Proposed First Amendment Defense Act will use religious...

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GOP’s next battle against gay rights: Proposed First Amendment Defense Act will use “religious freedom” to legalize discrimination

President-elect Trump and his GOP cohorts are preparing to turn back the clock on gay rights

MATTHEW ROZSA

Republicans are planning on turning back the clock on gay rights once President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

The so-called First Amendment Defense Act, or FADA, “prohibits the federal government from taking discriminatory action against a person on the basis that such person believes or acts in accordance with a religious belief or moral conviction that: (1) marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, or (2) sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage.”

In other words, you can discriminate, but you have to say that you’re discriminating because your religion wants you to.

Because of the bill’s language, it would not only permit discrimination against homosexual couples, but also unwed heterosexual couples and single mothers, so long as the business owners can claim that their religious beliefs are being violated. Because the phrase “moral conviction” appears in the legislation, one wouldn’t even need to connect their discriminatory acts to a specific religious creed or doctrine. All one would have to do is cite a moral conviction that sexual activity outside of heterosexual marriage is offensive.

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http://www.salon.com/2016/12/22/gops-next-battle-against-gay-rights-proposed-first-amendment-defense-act-will-use-religious-freedom-to-legalize-discrimination/

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. What a load of horseshit.

[hibbing]

2. assholes

And here they come with their majority to implement all the garbage I thought we were past.


Peace

[Initech]

3. This bill is the most anti first amendment bill ever proposed.

Oh and fuck their religion.

[sarcasmo]

4. Religion used to justify hate, shocker.