{"id":22962,"date":"2016-07-11T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22962"},"modified":"2016-07-11T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T17:22:00","slug":"republicans-move-to-legalize-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/11\/republicans-move-to-legalize-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Move to Legalize Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s taken a month for the Republican Party to come up with an official response to the Orlando Massacre.  They took an ever so brief timeout from hating, Blacks, Latinos,Women. the poor, etc., to focus their hatred on the LGBT community.<\/font><\/p>\n

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One month ago on Tuesday, a gunman shot and killed 49 people at a gay nightclub<\/a> in Orlando, Florida. House Republicans plan to mark this milestone with a hearing on a bill that would enable widespread discrimination against LGBT people. The legislation, ironically named<\/a> the \u201cFirst Amendment Defense Act\u201d (FADA) rests on the idea that discrimination should be excused when it is justified by religion.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform plans to consider FADA<\/a>. The anti-LGBT bill has 171 different co-sponsors<\/a>, nearly all of them Republicans.<\/p>\n

By its own explicit terms, FADA grants special rights to individuals with a \u201creligious belief or moral conviction that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, or that sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage.\u201d In that sense, it closely resembles a Mississippi law<\/a> that a federal judge halted earlier this month, in part because it extends special treatment to individuals with anti-LGBT religious beliefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Under, the core provision of FADA \u201cthe Federal Government shall not take any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially on the basis that such person believes or acts in accordance with\u201d a religious objection to marriage equality or a faith-based belief that sexual relations must be reserved to a marriage between people of the opposite sex<\/strong>. Subsequent provisions define the term \u201cdiscriminatory action\u201d to include a broad range of sanctions against religious objectors who themselves engage in discrimination. The government cannot deny tax subsidies to religious objectors who discriminate against LGBT people, or deny them a grant or benefit, or, under a catch-all provision, \u201cotherwise discriminate against such person.\u201d… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Think Progress<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Photo Credit: The Great American Disconnect<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

Essentially this proposal would codify allowing the right to religious beliefs of one person to <\/font>take precedence over the Constitutional rights of another person, but only if the beliefs, upon which hateful discrimination is based, are the beliefs of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the polar opposite of authentic Christians.  As such, it seeks to establish pseudo-Christianity as a state religion, a clear violation of the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment.<\/font><\/p>\n

Of the 171 co-sponsors of this hateful garbage, I could find only one Democrat.  He is Rep. Daniel Lepinski [DINO-IL]<\/font><\/strong>. If you’re an Illinoisan, especially from the 3rd Congressional District, would you please give this Trump Humping DINO a call and tear him a new one?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s taken a month for the Republican Party to come up with an official response to the Orlando Massacre.  They took an ever so brief timeout from hating, Blacks, Latinos,Women. the poor, etc., to focus their hatred on the LGBT community. One month ago on Tuesday, a gunman shot and killed 49 people at a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}