Mitt Romney will oppose LGBTQ rights bill unless Christians get a right to discriminate

[DonViejo]

Source: LGBTQ Nation


Will out bisexual Senator Kyrsten Sinema help him kill the legislation? So far, the answer is yes.

By Bil Browning Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) has announced that he will oppose the Equality Act unless it includes language that would allow Christians to discriminate against LGBTQ people. The bill is a priority for the Biden administration and Romney’s vote could be critical to passage.

While there is a path around Romney’s roadblock, out bisexual Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) could sink the proposed legislation altogether.

“Sen. Romney believes that strong religious liberty protections are essential to any legislation on this issue, and since those provisions are absent from this particular bill, he is not able to support it,” said Arielle Mueller, a Romney spokesperson, told the Washington Blade.

While Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the bill will easily pass the House of Representatives, the vote in the Senate is a little more complicated. The House is expected to vote on the bill next week.

Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/02/mitt-romney-will-oppose-lgbtq-rights-bill-unless-christians-get-right-discriminate

[Oldem]

1. Sure Mitt. Let's

codify discrimination. You giant anus.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. So GLBT can't be given equal rights unless

some people are allowed to violate those rights. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

[still_one]

3. This is from the guy who said he "wept when church ended discrimination"

"Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” today that he wept with relief when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon church, announced a 1978 revelation that the priesthood would no longer be denied to persons of African descent."

https://www.politico.com/story/2007/12/mitt-wept-when-church-ended-discrimination-007415

One has to wonder if they realize how foolish they look

[AZ8theist]

47. Mormons looking foolish?

..what are the odds...

[cojoel]

4. But will they allow Christians to discriminate against Mormons?

There are plenty of Christians (self-identifying ones, as opposed to followers of Christ) who don't like Mormons any more than LGBTQ, Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, Asians, and just about anybody else. There are some that don't even like Catholics...

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. This is true

I grew up in an evangelical house. Everyone else was wrong and we were right. But humble about that fact (yeah right).

Jews, Catholics, and other evangelical churches too, like Baptists who allowed smoking!, or those crazy Pentecostals speaking in tongues. They didn't overtly put Mormons down, but once in awhile if the topic came up, they were sure to educate us how they were more like a cult, and not REAL Christians..........like us!

[keithbvadu2]

28. Many Protestants/Catholics consider the other to be NOT Christians.

Many Protestants/Catholics consider the other to be NOT Christians.

But you have to be the right kind of Christian.....

Start at about 2:00 on the timeline.

[DENVERPOPS]

33. LOL Perfect..............NC

[IronLionZion]

36. Love it!

[shrike3]

45. I have met many Protestants who don't consider Catholics Christians.

[dsc]

29. when I was in middle school my pastor was horrified I would be spending a week

with my Mormon aunt and uncle and their children. They were considered cultists by him.

[LittleGirl]

52. They are!

They are all cultists!

[C_U_L8R]

5. Dearest Mitt, freedom to discriminate is not a 'christian' value.

[elleng]

6. DAMN!

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Kind of defeats the purpose of an 'Equality' bill to allow discrimination.

[Marcuse]

9. "Love thy neighbor" doesn't mean what he thinks it does.

[Magoo48]

10. Romney is a bought and paid for, bigot supporting, pendejo.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. The Christian justification for discrimination is ..............?

Will they be banning Nazis and insurrectionists too?

[Faux pas]

12. Kickin' with disgust!

Your beliefs don't outweigh basic human rights. WTAF!

[Doreen]

13. He is saying he is not for fair rights at all.

[Escurumbele]

15. The LGBTQ community needs to come up with a discrimination list to non-LGBTQ people

It should work both ways right? Ok, you discriminate against me, I can also discriminate against you.

Lets see, you are a Catholic? Well yes, I am a Christian but not a Catholic, so get out of my bank, we cannot give you the loan you so desperately need.

How about schools? Hmm, you are and Evangelist? Sorry, we only accept Baptists...

The battle of discrimination...that will unite the country!

I know its childish, what I wrote, but it is also childish from Romney to come up with stupidity like that, and they do it just to get points with their voters.

[safeinOhio]

56. My friend has a great gaydar and claims

you are very gay Mitt, so no soup for you.

[bringthePaine]

16. sorry, no christo-fascist exceptions for any of these fucking fakes, period.

[Miguelito Loveless]

17. This just in: Mitt Romney still a religious dickweed

[Vinca]

18. Can the rest of us discriminate against Christians?

[HUAJIAO]

20. And Romney continues to be who he really is....

[BradAllison]

21. Mitt Rmoney is not a good guy. Just a reminder.

[CaptYossarian]

22. Mitt happens.

I guess he's staying in the GOP. This is the same demented side of his brain that picked Paul Ryan.

He needs to know a couple of things though: His beliefs won't make other orientations magically disappear. (and) Odds are that one of his five sons will remain in the closet and will never have an honest relationship with him.

[turbinetree]

23. So can we pass legislation to block the Mormon Church from their tax exempt stands there Mittens

I mean really you really are showing your true colors yet again.........

[BlueIdaho]

24. The enemy of my enemy

Is not my friend. Nothing surprising here, he is never going to evolve beyond his strict Mormon upbringing.

[AllaN01Bear]

25. the usa , never has and never will be a christian nation.

[safeinOhio]

55. Not until we have a Jubilee Year and

all debts are forgiven. Whether you think it should be every 7 years or every 49 years, we are past due.

[Chili Pepper]

26. Just when I thought Mitt was exhibiting traits of a normal person,

he reminds us that he's really not.

Republican values

[Behind the Aegis]

27. Anyone surprised? No?

Me neither.

Once again, gays will get "legally" discriminated against.

[keithbvadu2]

30. st peter is showing the new arrival around heaven. it's all alleyways between high walls.

st peter is showing the new arrival around heaven. it's all alleyways between high walls.
'what are all these walls?' the new guy asks.
st peter says:
behind this wall are the catholics.
behind this wall are the baptists.
behind this wall are the jehovah's witnesses.
behind this wall are the protestants.
behind this wall are the seventh day adventists
....................................on and on and on.
they all think they're the only ones here.

[dsc]

31. sadly it likely won't matter

since even if we pass that law, the Supreme Court will create a but Jesus exception to it. The case Fulton V Philadelphia was heard in Nov and from oral arguments it is quite clear they are going to carve out a massive exception to anti discrimination laws that protect LGBT people. This case Catholic charities who are paid by Phily to screen foster parents refuse to do so for LGBT parents, Phily said then we won't use you, the court will wind up saying Phily has to.

[Progressive Jones]

32. It never ends with these people and their demands for preferential treatment !!!

One's religion does not make them special.

[LiberalLovinLug]

34. Nowhere does that article, nor the source from THAT article, state WHY he is opposed.

Nor what he wants it to include.
I get it, he wants a law to include the right to refuse service to anyone that shop owners hear God above telling them not to serve. Actually, its his own closed community of circle jerking bigots.

But I don't likle how he gets away with being against the rights of some Americans, and we are all just supposed to assume what he means. If he has the courage to block it from moral grounds, then at least articulate in detail why.

[AllyCat]

35. Religious Libertyright to hate and discriminate

It's that simple. No one is telling them they have to be LGBTQ. They are not violating any tenet of their religion. They just want to keep others from having rights because they don't like it.

[Evolve Dammit]

37. Mitt is about as re-gressive as it gets. Vulture capitalist (Bain Holding Co.) and golden underwear.

[iluvtennis]

38. Mitt is being absurb

[Jay25]

39. He needs to show where in the Bible Jesus said it was OK to discriminate.

[raising2moredems]

51. Oh that is fake news

Someone must have removed those bible "versus".

[Jetheels]

40. Covid ravaging the planet

West coast burning up Texas in once in a century freeze but yeah, lets take a moment and attack gay rights. That said there’s no info on what religious protections he wants.

[EndlessWire]

41. People need to be equal.

And there should be separation of church and state.

What's up with Senema?

It makes no sense for Mitt Romney to make such a stupid requirement for his support. Why bother passing it at all? "We are all equal but some of us are more equal than the rest."

Oh! He wants to claim when he runs for Pres that he voted for some equal rights bill. He thinks that gay people are stupid. And he wants to claim for his base that he saved them from the awful gay tide that was about to wash over them.

Get real, Mitt. This is asinine.

[FreeState]

42. What's up with Senema?

Im not 100% sure why, but sometimes people come out and are not supportive of the whole community or the communities basic civil rights. This happens a lot with former LDS LGBT persons. I have seen it time and time again. They come out, are still Republican and then gradually do a 180. A certain percentage never fully leave their belief system. While she has been out of the Church for 25 years she is also catering to the AZ population as a whole.

She came out in 2005 as bisexual. I dont know how involved she has been with the local community or if she has ever been in a relationship with a woman (one does not need to, however people that do tend to have their ideas changed and challenged on a more personal level).

[EndlessWire]

48. I spelled her name wrong

It's Sinema.

I wonder why she joined the Democrats? I dunno. Nothing about her suggests that she is antigay rights. So, it's puzzling. This will backfire on her.

I was surprised to read that she has a Phd in Justice Studies. She is highly educated at least.

Plus, she voted to convict Trump both times.

I'm not a fan, but with a mixed review. I don't like it when anybody's human rights are constrained. Straight rights do not mean that gay rights should be diminished.

[Solly Mack]

43. You can have equality as long as I can discriminate against you in the name of some god!

[burrowowl]

44. I didn't know Mormons were Christian

since their allegiance is to Joseph Smith and their bible is the Book of Mormons.

[FreeState]

49. Actually none of that is true

Mormons believe in and use the Bible (they also use the Book of Mormon and two other fan fiction books Joseph Smith authored as scripture). Joseph Smith is revered but not worshiped like Jesus is.

They are very much still a cult though.

[royable]

46. I'm going to oppose this anti-theft bill unless I get a religious exemption to steal.

I have a deeply-held religious belief that I have to steal in order to obtain divine salvation.

I'm going to oppose this anti-murder bill unless I get a religious exemption to assassinate all public officials.

I have a deeply-held religious belief that I must murder them indiscriminately in order to achieve eternal life.

I have a deeply-held religious belief that I must not ever divulge my deeply held religious beliefs.

Where does it end?

[slightlv]

50. Where does it end?

It doesn't. It's not a bug, it's a feature for them. They have to have someone to "other"... and despite what their bibles say, they are the exact opposite of welcoming to the stranger. I gave up on Xtianity decades ago, and almost all religions, period. I sing "Imagine" and wonder what a wonderful world it could be if everybody could just keep their nose in their own business, and out of everybody else's. But I'm Pagan... what do I know, eh? Grrrrr

[olddad65]

53. So would others have the right to legally discriminate against christians

Would that be okay with Mitt?

[SunSeeker]

54. Just when you thought Mitt might be decent, he reminds you he's a Republican.

[safeinOhio]

57. If that gay person, standing next to you, is the

least among us, how will you treat him or her?


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