Everything you need to know about FADA, a 'religious freedom' bill supported by Trump's cabinet
Mehak Anwar — Dec 19 at 11:23AM | Last updated Dec 19 at 11:24AM
Donald Trump’s pick for budget director, South Carolina Republican congressman Mick Mulvaney, is the most recent addition to an anti-LGBTQ cabinet. Mulvaney supports an amendment to prevent same-sex marriage and believes anti-same-sex marriage opinions should be protected under free speech.
He’s also a co-sponsor of the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), which seeks to protect “religious freedom” over LGBTQ rights.
FADA, which was introduced over a year ago, “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.”
Mulvaney joins five other cabinet picks who are co-sponsors of the bill. Many of those who have not been previously involved in politics, like Ben Carson, also support discrimination under the guise of religious freedom., In a 2016 speech to the Indiana legislature, Vice President-elect Mike Pence said, “I will not support any bill that diminishes the religious freedom of Hoosiers or that interferes with the Constitutional rights of our citizens to live out their beliefs in worship, service, or work.”
Donald Trump is also a vocal proponent of FADA.
http://www.dailydot.com/irl/trumps-administration-lgbtq-discrimination/
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