GOP Senators To Re-Introduce Anti-Gay 'Religious Freedom' Bill Next Year
Source: Talking Points Memo
By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published DECEMBER 12, 2016, 1:44 PM EDT
The Republican sponsors of a so-called "religious freedom" bill plan on re-introducing the legislation next year in the hopes that Donald Trump's election will boost chances for the bill to be signed into law, Buzzfeed News reported.
The bill, the First Amendment Defense Act, would ban the federal government from revoking tax exemptions from or denying grants to individuals or corporations with religious or "moral" beliefs opposing same-sex marriage.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the legislation last year, and a counterpart measure was filed in the House, but neither bill made it to a full vote in either the House or Senate.
"Hopefully November’s results will give us the momentum we need to get this done next year," Conn Carroll, a spokesman for Lee, told Buzzfeed.
Cruz also told Buzzfeed News that Trump's election gives him hope that the bill could gain support in 2017.
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to hurt people in this country while we really have a Constitutional crises developing with one big serial predator: and the "news" media not and I repeat NOT hammering these people on this Article in the Constitution, and why they aren't holding hearings but they just have to inflict harm on people for there sexual orientation, like there nothing else better to do
Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution contains what is known as the Foreign Emoluments Clause, which reads, “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
FU with Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee yet---------------- fascists, making over $174,000 a year getting ready for another tax payer pay raise and they want to have theocracy
