The House just passed H.R. 5, the Equality Act. All Democrats and three Republicans, Rep. Tom Reed (R – NY), Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R – PA), and Rep. John Katko (R – NY) all voted for the bill. As Republicans in heavily blue areas, Reed, Fitzpatrick and Katko no doubt felt obliged to support the bill, putting their re-election concerns above their conscience. This bill, adds to the many other ways that the Democrat Party is attempting to erase the constitutional rights of conservative Americans. If the bill is passed by the Senate, it will no doubt be the cause of numerous lawsuits, and will most probably find its way to the Supreme Court.
What the Equality Act enshrines is inequality. It attempts to force the desires of a minute portion of our population upon the vast majority of Americans by denying the guaranteed, constitutional rights of the majority. It is, the cake shop/ gay wedding controversy codified into law which makes sexual orientation and transgender a part of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill.
In the first place, this advances the rights of 4.5% of the population (the percentage of Americans who self-identify as LGBTQ) over the rights of the other 95.5%. According to the Act, transgender men or even “fluid gender” men who currently self-identify as women but have taken no hormones, would be free to use women’s bathrooms and dressing rooms, and compete against women in all sports. As Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito explained in his dissent to the Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, “it is a matter of concern to many people who are reticent about disrobing or using toilet facilities in the presence of individuals whom they regard as members of the opposite sex. For some, this may simply be a question of modesty, but for others, there is more at stake. For women who have been victimized by sexual assault or abuse, the experience of seeing an unclothed person with the anatomy of a male in a confined and sensitive location such as a bathroom or locker room can cause serious psychological harm” (Qtd by Stephen Kruiser, PJMedia).
This Act erases the hard fought right of women to compete and win in sports. Transgender women still have the longer legs and arms, the skeletal and muscular anatomy, the strength and swiftness of a man, even though they may have gone through hormonal treatment to give them enhanced breasts or even surgery to change their male sex organs to vaginas. Thus, by forcing all sports to allow them to compete with non-transgender women, Democrats are removing the chances of any non-transgender woman from ever succeeding in sports again. Duke Law School professor Doriane Lambelet Coleman warned that if women’s sports must admit biological men, “the very best women in the world would lose to literally thousands of boys and men, including thousands who would be considered second-tier” (qtd. by Tyler O’Neil on PJMedia).
Thus, the “Party of Women” has just stabbed women in the back, setting back the women’s movement by decades! Lesbian feminist Julia Beck condemned H.R. 5 as “a human rights violation” that will deprive “every single person in this country” of “their right to single-sex sports, shelters, grants, and loans. The law will forbid ever distinguishing between women and men” (qtd. by O’Neil).
Most alarming, though is the fact that the Equality Act specifically carves out an exception to the constitutionally guaranteed right of religious freedom, but only when such religious freedom comes into conflict with the rights of gender. Catholic doctors who refuse to perform a hysterectomy on a healthy woman who wishes to transgender to a man, could lose their ability to practice medicine. Doctors, nurses, and technicians whose religious beliefs condemn abortion for expediency’s sake, will be forced to commit abortions anyway, or lose their jobs. But even non-religious doctors, who are taught to “ to first do no harm” object that transgender “treatments” in addition to removing healthy body parts, can cause lasting physical and psychological harm to the transgender patient. Endocrinologists like Dr. Michael Laidlaw have argued that cross-sex hormones and “puberty blockers” actually cause a disease, hypogonadatropic hypogonadism. There is no evidence that transgender surgery improves the mental health outcomes of gender dysphoric people. Men and women who formerly identified as transgender and underwent surgery have grown to reject transgender identity and lament the damage they did to their own bodies (O’Neil, PJMedia).
More far-reaching cancellation of religious freedom would extend to every Christian, Jewish or Muslim college, church, temple or mosque. For example, Christian colleges who teach that there are only two genders, male and female, as created by God, and that you cannot willfully turn yourself into something that your DNA did not create you to be, will be fined and shut down if they continue to teach the truth as they know it. Churches who teach Biblical truths will lose their tax exempt status and perhaps be eventually forced to close if they don’t stop preaching what the Bible teaches about gender. By passing this bill, Democrats have just obliterated the First Amendment to the Constitution which reads in part: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . . .”
We should not, of course, be surprised as they and their sycophants have already trashed the next part of the First Amendment which continues “ or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;” All conservative voices on Twitter have been removed. Facebook regularly blocks comments that it considers “hateful” or “unproven” as long as they come from conservatives. Democrats are allowed to spew whatever nonsense and trash that they wish with seldom a comment from the platforms. YouTube has banned videos from conservatives and especially Christian groups. When conservatives moved from Twitter to Parler, Parler lost their server which was being provided by Amazon. They are back in business, now, having found other servers, but they were deliberately driven temporarily out of business in order to prevent conservatives from having an information arena.
Professors have lost their jobs for supporting free speech on their campuses, and the number of words that are now considered “hate speech” grows daily.
The Declaration of Independence begins with these words, penned by Thomas Jefferson and accepted as truth by the colonists who revolted against the British Crown:
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
But today, these self-evident, without question truths are being ignored by Democrats. They no longer believe that all men are created equal, despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which banned discrimination on the basis on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Yet Democrats would elevate races which they term as “people of color” over both white and Asian Americans. There is no longer the blindness to color that the Civil Rights Movement strove for, but rather simply a shift in those who are the exalted (black and brown-skinned Americans) and those who are vilified, prevented from obtaining jobs, or getting into colleges (white or Asian Americans).
An example is Harvard’s admission data. Among high school applicants who rank in the top academic tier of their class, Hispanics are admitted to Harvard at a rate of 31.3%; and blacks are admitted at a rate of 56.1%. Whites are only admitted at a rate of 15.3% and for Asian Americans it is even worse as they are admitted at a rate of 12.7% (Josh Hammer, Townhall).
This is segregation and racism clear and simple. And it is against the law. But because it falls under affirmative action, which has been in and out of the courts for years, most liberal colleges adhere to it, despite its obvious elevation of students by color rather than achievement. It is the wish of most Americans to live in harmony and equality with their neighbors, regardless of their skin color or ethnicity, but Democrats cannot allow this to happen. They ignore the fact that only about 4% of Americans would not vote for a black president (if he were in their party, of course!) or move from their home if a family of color moved into the neighborhood. Instead, Democrats continue to parrot phrases like “white privilege,” “white fragility,” and “systemic racism.” They must portray conservative whites as the oppressor from whom they and they alone can save the victimized black and brown people. The fact that this is directly contrary to the goal of the Civil Rights Movement or that it is contrary to the Declaration of Independence is of no consequence to them. They cancel whatever does not fit their narrative.
What can we do in the face of these attacks on the bedrock of our country? Certainly we can call or text our senators and representatives and tell them that we want them to vote against bills which destroy our heritage and contradict the Constitution. But most Republican congressmen will vote against those laws anyway, and most Democrats are from deeply blue areas where their constituents either approve of these moves or do not grasp the ramifications of what is happening in our former democratic republic.
So YOU need to pass the word to others. Make people aware of what is going on. If you feel unable to explain these things yourself, send our link www.commonsense42.com to all of your friends and relatives, especially those in other states, and encourage them to read a different view than what the news media is feeding them. We need to get the truth out to as many Americans as possible. Then in 2022, we need to elect enough true conservatives to take over the House and the Senate. Remind people how many Democrats have promised not to impeach President Trump if elected, or to see that $2000 checks are in our mailboxes as soon as they are sworn in. They never keep those promises! Remind them of Albert Einstein’s quote: “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” Americans must not fall for Democrat lies and unfulfilled promises again!
Abraham Lincoln said it best when he said, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”