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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOPs Anti-LGBT, Anti-Women Religious Freedom Law on Steroids
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 Pences Indiana. The Republican House will surely pass it, the Senate will pass it unless its 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, FADAs basic principle is that its 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, theyre 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, thats what FADA is all about.
More: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/16/the-gop-s-anti-lgbt-anti-women-religious-freedom-law-on-steroids.html?source=TDB&via=FB_Page
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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
(100,079 posts)But in the interest of good taste, I won't.
sheshe2
(83,785 posts)It gets worse with everything I read.
Initech
(100,079 posts)brer cat
(24,568 posts)I am running in circles with my hair on fire. It is hard to find focus. Yes, I can hardly breathe.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)sheshe2
(83,785 posts)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
(67,413 posts)no more being nice to xtians if we don't want to
Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)Who would have ever guessed that now perhaps the country will divide up at even pure commerce, healthcare and federal contracting levels?
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)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
(9,289 posts)[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
(1,429 posts)Over 300,000 Democrats in Florida alone voted for the shitgibbon. Unconscionable.
edhopper
(33,580 posts)this, banning abortion, ending Gay marriage, will all happen.