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Biden and Democrats in Congress voting for Equality Act are undermining religious rights
Legislative efforts to, in effect, coerce religious Americans into betraying sincere, time-honored convictions are the opposite of equality under the law.
Specifically, it would override the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which gives people a way to challenge government requirements that they feel impinge on their religious rights. The religious freedom act was needed because of a Supreme Court ruling in 1990 that said First Amendment protections for religion couldn't be invoked to challenge a law if the law itself wasn't intended to specifically target religion (e.g., a measure like the Equality Act).
Several states and other jurisdictions have their own laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in many areas but responsibly include reasonable religious exemption clauses. By not including such a clause and even forbidding recourse to the religious freedom act, the Equality Act sends an ugly message: Religion doesn't matter. The law, as the adage goes, is a teacher. And here it would be teaching that regrettable lesson.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...ts-ncna1258787
Biden and Democrats in Congress voting for Equality Act are undermining religious rights
Legislative efforts to, in effect, coerce religious Americans into betraying sincere, time-honored convictions are the opposite of equality under the law.
Specifically, it would override the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which gives people a way to challenge government requirements that they feel impinge on their religious rights. The religious freedom act was needed because of a Supreme Court ruling in 1990 that said First Amendment protections for religion couldn't be invoked to challenge a law if the law itself wasn't intended to specifically target religion (e.g., a measure like the Equality Act).
Several states and other jurisdictions have their own laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in many areas but responsibly include reasonable religious exemption clauses. By not including such a clause and even forbidding recourse to the religious freedom act, the Equality Act sends an ugly message: Religion doesn't matter. The law, as the adage goes, is a teacher. And here it would be teaching that regrettable lesson.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...ts-ncna1258787
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