Anti-LGBT Activist Group Pushing Congress to Pass Sweeping First Amendment 'Religious Freedom' Bill

[KamaAina]

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/anti_lgbt_activist_group_pushing_congress_to_pass_sweeping_first_amendment_religious_freedom_bill

Bills that have sat languishing in the House and Senate may find new life if efforts by the National Organization For Marriage (NOM) are successful. The faith-based anti-LGBT organization is campaigning for congressional lawmakers to hold hearings on and pass the First Amendment Defense Act. FADA would protect any person, group, organization, company, or corporation that claims to have a sincerely held religious belief about LGBT people, same-sex couples, and marriage, from obeying laws designed to provide protection in those areas to LGBT people and other minorities....

The First Amendment Defense Act "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," according to a summary....

The bills, if passed, literally would give license to anyone to refuse to interact with, serve or do business with any adult who is not in a different-sex monogamous marriage, unless they can prove they are not having or have not ever had sex....

They has 38 sponsors – all Republicans – in the Senate and 167 sponsors in the House, including two Democrats: Rep. Ralph Abraham (Louisiana), and Rep. Daniel Lipinski (Illinois).

edit: I read that for a second as "'Religious Freedom' Bull"!

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Not surprising.

I expect, should a republican get into the White House, GLBT will see many of our hard-earned civil rights overturned, while people wring their hands and go "wha' happen?"