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Biden Urges Congress to 'Swiftly Pass' Equality Act that Would Let Boys Play on Girls' Teams
Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Monday, February 22, 2021
Joe Biden, Biden urges Congress to pass the Equality Act
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Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Monday, February 22, 2021
Joe Biden, Biden urges Congress to pass the Equality Act
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President Biden is urging swift passage of a far-reaching LGBT rights bill that critics say would impair religious liberty and destroy hard-fought legal protections for women, including the right to play on female-only teams.
At issue is the Equality Act, which adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes for education, federal funding, employment, housing, public accommodations and facilities. The bill was introduced Feb. 18 and has 223 co-sponsors – all Democrats. It is expected to pass the House, although its chances in the Senate are less certain.
“I urge Congress to swiftly pass this historic legislation,” Biden said in a statement Friday. “Every person should be treated with dignity and respect, and this bill represents a critical step toward ensuring that America lives up to our foundational values of equality and freedom for all.”
But many of the changes are controversial.
The bill would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – a law that was passed to confront racial discrimination – by adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the list of protected classes for public places and employment. A clause in the Civil Rights Act that was written to enforce the desegregation of schools would now prohibit discrimination based on “sexual orientation and gender identity”
Further, the text of the Equality Act states: “An individual shall not be denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual's gender identity.”
Ryan T. Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, said in a New York Post column Sunday that the bill would harm religious rights and women’s rights.
“Rather than finding common-sense, narrowly tailored ways to shield LGBT-identifying Americans from truly unjust discrimination, the bill would act as a sword – to persecute those who don’t embrace newfangled gender ideologies,” Anderson wrote. “It would vitiate a sex binary that is quite literally written into our genetic code and is fundamental to many of our laws, not least laws protecting the equality, safety and privacy of women.
“The Equality Act,” Anderson added, “would sacrifice the hard-won rights of women, while privileging men who identify as women. If it becomes law, such men would have a right to spend the night in battered women's shelters, disrobe in women’s locker rooms and compete on women’s sports teams – even at K-12 schools.”
In Connecticut in recent years, two high school biological boys who identify as girls won a combined 15 girls’ track state titles.
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova co-wrote a Washington Post editorial last year warning that the Equality Act, as written, “would do significant damage” to women’s sports by making “it unlawful to differentiate among girls and women in sports on the basis of sex for any purpose.”
Alliance Defending Freedom this month warned that the Equality Act “should be concerning to anyone who values religious freedom and true equality.” ADF said the Equality Act would:
“forbid churches and religious nonprofits from requiring their employees to live out their religious beliefs about marriage, sexual morality, and the distinction between the sexes.” Churches and religious nonprofits could be “required to open their sex-specific facilities to members of the opposite sex,” ADF said.
“threaten religious foster care and adoption agencies with closure if they operate according to their deeply held belief that the best place for a child is a home with a married mother and father.”
“threaten creative professionals and other business owners who simply want to live and work according to their beliefs.” As an example, ADF mentioned a Christian printer in Kentucky who refused to print an LGBT pride shirt and was ordered by the local human rights commission to undergo diversity training.
“force individuals to speak messages that violate their beliefs under the threat of punishment.” ADF referenced a Christian man who is a university professor and was disciplined for not referring to a biological male student as a woman. The student identifies as female.
Biden says the bill is needed.
“Full equality has been denied to LGBTQ+ Americans and their families for far too long,” he said, in the statement. “Despite the extraordinary progress the LGBTQ+ community has made to secure their basic civil rights, discrimination is still rampant in many areas of our society. The Equality Act provides long overdue federal civil rights protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, locking in critical safeguards in our housing, education, public services, and lending systems — and codifying the courage and resilience of the LGBTQ+ movement into enduring law. … No one should ever face discrimination or live in fear because of who they are or whom they love.” less
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Biden Should Stop Calling Himself a 'Devout Catholic' while Supporting Abortion, Archbishop Asserts
Milton Quintanilla | Contributor for ChristianHeadlines.com | Thursday, February 18, 2021
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Milton Quintanilla | Contributor for ChristianHeadlines.com | Thursday, February 18, 2021
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A leading archbishop is calling on President Joe Biden to stop defining himself as a “devout Catholic” because of his endorsement of abortion, The Christian Post reports.
In an interview with The Catholic World Report (CWR) published Saturday, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, spoke out on Biden’s pro-choice views, asserting that abortion is “contrary to Catholic moral teaching”.
“The president should stop defining himself as a devout Catholic, and acknowledge that his view on abortion is contrary to Catholic moral teaching,” he contended.
Naumann, who is also the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, suggested that the President should say that he disagrees with his church over their view on abortion and that he was acting “contrary to Church teaching.”
In response to Biden saying he’s a devout Catholic, “we bishops have the responsibility to correct him,” Naumann argued.
“Although people have given this president power and authority, he cannot define what it is to be a Catholic and what Catholic moral teaching is,” he continued.
Naumann told CWR that Biden is “usurping the role of the bishops and confusing people” because he supports abortion while maintaining that he is a professing Catholic.
“He’s declaring that he’s Catholic, and is going to force people to support abortion through their tax dollars,” Naumann noted. “The bishops need to correct him, as the president is acting contrary to the Catholic faith.”
When asked about his thoughts about a Florida priest who denied Biden communion in 2019, Naumann stressed that the President “has the responsibility not to present himself for Holy Communion.”
“When Catholics receive the Eucharist, they are acknowledging the real presence of Jesus, and also belief in the teachings of the Church,” the archbishop explained.
“President Biden doesn’t believe in the Church’s teachings on the sanctity of human life, and he should not put the priest in the situation where he has to decide whether or not to allow him to receive the Eucharist, Naumann asserted. “He should know that after 78 years as a Catholic.”
Naumann, 71, is the fourth and current Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas, a position he has held since 2005. less
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House Rep. Files Articles of Impeachment against President Biden
Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Friday, January 22, 2021
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Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Friday, January 22, 2021
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A freshman member of Congress introduced articles of impeachment Thursday against President Biden, saying he had abused the power of his office while serving as vice president under former President Barack Obama.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) – who has been the source of controversy over her beliefs in multiple conspiracies – introduced the articles exactly one day after Biden took the oath of office. As of Friday, the articles did not have any co-sponsors.
“President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the Presidency,” Greene said. “His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama's Vice President is lengthy and disturbing. President Biden has demonstrated that he will do whatever it takes to bail out his son, Hunter, and line his family's pockets with cash from corrupt foreign energy companies.”
The text of the articles were not yet public, but a press release from Greene’s office alleged Biden had enabled “bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors” by “allowing his son to influence the domestic policy of a foreign nation and accept various benefits – including financial compensation – from foreign nationals in exchange for certain favors.”
Some Republicans have urged the party to distance itself from Greene for her embrace of conspiracy theories. She recorded a lengthy video in 2017 siding with the debunked QAnon conspiracy theory, saying the theory is “something worth listening to and paying attention to.”
This week, multiple outlets reported that Greene has embraced other conspiracy theories, too, including ones claiming that the 2001 terrorist attacks were an “inside job” and that the Parkland and Sandy Hook mass shootings were staged. When a commenter promoted those conspiracy theories on her Facebook page in 2018 – saying 9/11 “was done by our own Gov” and that “None of the School shootings were real” – Greene agreed with the commenter and wrote, “That is all true.” More than 2,700 people died in the 2001 terrorist attacks. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., in 2012 left 27 dead, including 20 children. The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in 2018 left 17 dead.
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.) reportedly got into a text message debate with Greene this month and called her a “literal QAnon lady trying to deny she’s a QAnon lady.”
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.) wrote in a column in The Atlantic this month that the party must distance itself from Greene and others who embrace conspiracy theories.
“She’ll keep making fools out of herself, her constituents, and the Republican Party,” Sasse wrote. “If the GOP is to have a future outside the fever dreams of internet trolls, we have to call out falsehoods and conspiracy theories unequivocally. We have to repudiate people who peddle those lies.
Sasse added, “We can dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution and perpetuating our best American institutions and traditions, or we can be a party of conspiracy theories, cable-news fantasies, and the ruin that comes with them. We can be the party of Eisenhower, or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones. We can applaud Officer Goodman [the hero in the attack on the capitol] or side with the mob he outwitted. We cannot do both.”
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'What? What is happening here?'
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