The GOPs Anti-LGBT, Anti-Women Religious Freedom Law on Steroids

[sheshe2]

The First Amendment Defense Act is the nuclear version of the so-called “religious freedom” laws that have appeared across the country, most infamously in Mike Pence’s Indiana. The Republican House will surely pass it, the Senate will pass it unless it’s filibustered by Democrats, and President-elect Trump has promised to sign it.


If it becomes law, FADA will be the worst thing to happen to women and LGBT people in a generation.


Like state “religious freedom restoration acts,” FADA’s basic principle is that it’s not discrimination when businesses discriminate against LGBT people if they have a religious reason for doing so. The most famous situations have to do with marriage: wedding cake bakers who say that if they bake a cake, they’re violating their religion; Kim Davis, the government clerk who said that signing a secular marriage certificate was a religious act that she could not perform.

But those stories are a red herring. The more important cases are ones like hospitals refusing to treat LGBT people (or their children), pharmacies refusing to fill birth control prescriptions, businesses refusing to offer health benefits to a same-sex partner, and state-funded adoption agencies refusing to place kids with gay families. Underneath the rhetorical BS, that’s what FADA is all about.

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Well your sympathy vote for Stein or refusal to vote 'cause your guy lost was SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than Gay rights or women's rights. I hope you are all very proud of yourselves. This is only the tip of the iceberg. It is going to get far worse.

Goddess bless our souls. So many will die.

[Initech]

1. I'd like to tell the GOP where they can shove their "religious freedom" bills..

But in the interest of good taste, I won't.

[sheshe2]

3. I am at the point I can hardly breathe.

It gets worse with everything I read.

[Initech]

5. And we haven't even reached the inauguration yet.

[brer cat]

10. Outrage overload.

I am running in circles with my hair on fire. It is hard to find focus. Yes, I can hardly breathe.

[leftofcool]

2. And while our "Democratic leaders" select their kumbaya committee leaders, Rome is burning.

[sheshe2]

4. Woopee we are all going to die.

I am not gay, and too old for birth control. No matter, many of us will die. However I am a senior and a woman, enough said.

[msongs]

6. and we can discriminate right back at em if anything disagrees with OUR sincerely held beliefs. no

no more being nice to xtians if we don't want to

[Grey Lemercier]

9. I think you are truly onto something there.

Who would have ever guessed that now perhaps the country will divide up at even pure commerce, healthcare and federal contracting levels?

[meow2u3]

12. We might be able to pull this off legally--at the polls!

I'll have to PM you as to why (I don't want RWNJs getting wind of this).

Link to PDFs of the VRA:
https://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100&page=pdf

[LostOne4Ever]

7. This was a large part of the reason I supported and voted for Clinton in the general.

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#009999]and why I am so mad about the loss!!! [/font]

[Grey Lemercier]

8. I also blame the millions of Obama voters and/or Democratic Party members who voted Trump

Over 300,000 Democrats in Florida alone voted for the shitgibbon. Unconscionable.

[edhopper]

11. Not if, when

this, banning abortion, ending Gay marriage, will all happen.