In rponse to the Supreme Court's historic marriage equaly lg, nservative media has endorsed a newly proposed feral bill lled the "First Amendment Defense Act" (FADA). Though nservativ have touted FADA as an effort to protect relig liberty, crics warn the bill would unrme the ernment's abily to bat anti-gay discrimatn.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE AND RELIG RIGHTS: SAY NADA TO FADA
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- GOP RETRODUC BILL PTG 'RELIG EEDOM' AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
GAY MARRIAGE AND RELIG RIGHTS: SAY NADA TO FADA
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Though nservativ have touted FADA as an effort to protect relig liberty, crics warn the bill would unrme the ernment's abily to bat anti-gay discrimatn. FADA Bars Feral “Discrimatory Actn” Agast Those Who Oppose Homosexualy, Same-Sex Marriage.
Utah senator Mike Lee, a Republin, has a bill lled the First Amendment Defense Act -- y, 's e to that -- protectg anizatns om ernment retaliatn over their opposn to gay marriage.
allow bs to discrimate by refg to let gay or lbian employe re for their sick spoe, vlatn of fay medil leave laws [ACLU, 7/20/15]. To start, would stantly revoke every feral gay rights measure ever passed and pre-emptively nullify any future measur.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
The First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) would protect employe who oppose gay marriage or sex outsi of a marriage between a man and a woman. * fada lgbt *
Print Obama's LGBT nondiscrimatn orr would be entirely unrmed: Feral ntractors would only need assert that gay sex and gay marriage vlate their “moral nvictns, ” and they uld fire gay employe wh impuny. Feral grante, such as homels shelters and dg treatment programs, uld turn away gay people at the door.
Bs uld refe to let gay employe re for a sick spoe, ntraventn of medil leave laws.
Even low-level ernment employe uld refe to procs gay upl' tax returns, Social Secury checks, or visa applitns. Kim Davis, a Kentucky unty clerk, was jailed last year for nyg marriage licens to gay upl, and her Indiana unterpart Lda Summers recently lost a feral urt se for the same reason Davis was jailed: Whholdg marriage licens is not a right afford to marriage people who believe their relig rights are at stake if gay people have rights clu bakery owners who don’t want to make gay people k and viographers who don’t want to make weddg vios for gay people. On the one-month anniversary of the mass shootg targetg gay men, lbians, and transgenr people at Pulse nightclub Orlando, ngrsnal Republins opted not to take a stand agast guns or for gay rights, but stead to double down on legislatn entrenchg legal discrimatn.
GOP RETRODUC BILL PTG 'RELIG EEDOM' AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
A bill tend to protect those offend by gay marriage uld open a n of worms. * fada lgbt *
The language of the bill is so expansive uld not only protect employers who refe to hire gay people the employer believ to be sexually active but uld allow your boss to fire you if he thought you were havg premaral sex. Right now, the Republin Party is also the midst of platform bat, a key ponent of which is the qutn of how the party treats gay, lbian, and transgenr people.
After clarg opposn to women bat and emg pornography a public menace, legat rejected any wordg that would oppose discrimatn agast LGBT people — cludg a le proposed by more morate members nmng terrorists targetg gay people. " openly gay D. And that was addn to repeated nods at "natural marriage, " which the platform says is more likely to prevent children om beg dg-addicted relicts; statements affirmg proposed state laws to regulate which bathrooms people n e (a swipe at transgenr people who want to e the bathroom that match their genr inty); and support of "nversn therapy, " which seeks to nvert gay people to heterosexualy, and has not only been characterized as total bunk by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn but is often so dangero to LGBT youth people that 's been banned several stat.
The past eight years have brought watershed victori for gay rights and women's rights. If both the arc of Amerin history and opn polls tell anythg, 's that anti-gay, anti-woman nservativ will lose — eventually. Homosexual and bisexual, trans- and tersex persons are often subsumed unr the acronym LGBTQI*.