The so-called “Equality Act” pushes even children in elementary school age to change their gender and prohibits them from taking therapy, which would usually solve their identity issues. Real religious leaders – like the Catholic Bishops and Franklin Graham (below) – take a strong public position against this atrocious legislation. What would Pat. Bartholomew and AB Elpidophoros do? Why they stay silent in front of this atrocity? Do they plan to let the faithful down one more time? (We are still waiting for them to take a public position against abortion and especially to denounce abortion on the same day as birth…)
Below a short introduction followed by the announcement of the Catholic Bishops and Franklin Graham’s public announcement…
Even a cursory look at the main point of the “Equality Act” which was passed in the House in 2019 and is now prioritized by the Biden Administration will certainly upset many of you in this audience as it upset me. In the name of gender equality serious atrocities are committed – here is a sample of what would be possible:
- A male rapist can be transferred to a women’s prison because he “identifies” as a woman. Once there, he can commit sexual assaults (It happened in England).
- Taxpayers also would be responsible for paying for sex-change procedures of transgender inmates. The plan promises to “ensure all transgender inmates in federal correctional facilities have access to appropriate doctors and medical care—including OB-GYNs and hormone therapy”!!
- Transgender females (biological males) will take part in women’s sports!..
- The legislation would force business owners to conform to new sexual norms, or they would be at risk of losing their business. Bakers, florists, photographers, and wedding venue owners who support traditional values would have to choose between participating in same-sex weddings or closing their business.
- But the most disgusting part is that it proposes a nationwide ban on “conversion therapy,” possibly including even counseling by clergy. That would particularly harm children experiencing gender dysphoria, as research shows that 80% to 95% of children resolve their distress if not pushed to transition socially or medically. In other words it pushes underage kids – even in elementary school!! – to go ahead with change of gender!!! Unbelievable!!
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We Cannot Remain Silent! |
| The Equality Act is a dangerous threat to our nation. I am writing to you about a very dangerous piece of legislation—the Equality Act. The Biden Administration has said they want to pass this within their first 100 days. I cannot say this more emphatically—for people, for businesses, and for ministries of faith, the Equality Act is a threat to life as we know it in our nation today. It’s a real game-changer. The House has already passed this legislation one time previously, so it will likely pass in the House again before moving on to the Senate. We need you to contact your congressmember and U.S. senators and ask them to vote NO. I also encourage you to let the White House know about your strong opposition to this bill. The progressive Left is zealous about this issue and will pull out all the stops to try to make it the law of the land. • The Equality Act designates schools, churches, and healthcare organizations as “public accommodations.” With this, schools, churches, and hospitals could be forced to accept the government’s beliefs and mandates about sexual orientation and gender identity. That would be highly intrusive and incredibly far-reaching. It will threaten everyday speech where people can be fined or lose their jobs for using the wrong name or pronouns. • The Equality Act will legislate that we allow boys in girls’ sports, boys in girls’ locker rooms, men in women’s shelters, and men in women’s prisons. It will force teachers and students to publicly pretend that a biological male is a female. Schools will be encouraged or mandated to instruct first, second, and third graders that they can choose to be a boy or a girl, or neither, or both, making biological sex (and science) a relic of the past. • The Equality Act will use the force of law across all 50 states to strip Christian and other religious ministries of their right to hire people of shared faith to pursue a shared mission. Can you imagine a Christian organization being forced to hire people hostile to its deeply held beliefs who have no passion for its beliefs, teachings, and mission? That doesn’t work. • The Equality Act will strip health professionals of their rights of conscience. It will force doctors and medical professionals who long to do no harm to engage in gender transition treatments such as hormone-blocking, cross-sex hormones, or surgery. It is obvious that a Catholic or faith-based hospital should not have to perform gender transition surgeries that go entirely against all they believe. • The Equality Act will be a tool used by the government to deny or threaten accreditation to religious colleges and universities if they do not satisfy the demands of the secular Left to apply sexual orientation and gender identity to dorms, sports, places of privacy, and even teachings. The Act could be used as a weapon to threaten the availability of federal student loans and grants to students at certain disfavored religious schools. These are just a few examples. Friends, this is a pivotal time for our nation. The impact of this legislation is immense. We must not remain silent and accept what we know is wrong. People of faith need to PRAY. Churches need to recognize the significance of this and pray corporately, asking for God’s intervention and mercy to extend the religious freedoms we have been blessed with for so long. We also must get to work now, in these fleeting days before the Equality Act comes up for a vote again. As individuals, churches, and organizations, we need to let our representatives in the U.S. House and Senate know how important this is to us, and that we are asking them to vote an emphatic NO to the Equality Act. Sincerely,
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Bishops: If passed, Equality Act will ‘discriminate against people of faith’
WASHINGTON — If the House of Representatives passes the Equality Act, its mandates will “discriminate against people of faith” by adversely affecting charities and their beneficiaries, conscience rights, women’s sports, “and sex-specific facilities,” said the chairmen of five U.S. bishops’ committees.
The bill, known as H.R. 5 and recently reintroduced in the House, also will provide for taxpayer funding of abortion and limit freedom of speech, the chairmen said in a Feb. 23 letter to all members of Congress.
H.R. 5 would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, public education, federal funding, the credit system and jury duty. The House was expected to vote on the measure before Feb. 26.
“Human dignity is central to what Catholics believe because every person is made in the image of God and should be treated accordingly, with respect and compassion,” they said, “This commitment is reflected in the church’s charitable service to all people, without regard to race, religion or any other characteristic.”
“It means we need to honor every person’s right to gainful employment free of unjust discrimination or harassment, and to the basic goods that they need to live and thrive,” they continued. “It also means that people of differing beliefs should be respected. In this, we wholeheartedly support nondiscrimination principles to ensure that everyone’s rights are protected.”
H.R. 5 “purports to protect people experiencing same-sex attraction or gender discordance from discrimination. But instead, the bill represents the imposition by Congress of novel and divisive viewpoints regarding ‘gender’ on individuals and organizations,” they said.
“This includes dismissing sexual difference and falsely presenting ‘gender’ as only a social construct,” they said. “As Pope Francis has reflected, however, ‘biological sex and the sociocultural role of sex — gender — can be distinguished but not separated.'”
Signing the letter were: Bishop Michael C. Barber of Oakland, California, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education; Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development; Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chairman of the USCCB Committee for Religious Liberty; Bishop David A. Konderla of Tulsa, Oklahoma, chairman of the USCCB Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage; and Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
“Tragically, this act can also be construed to include an abortion mandate, a violation of precious rights to life and conscience,” the committee chairmen added.
“Rather than affirm human dignity in ways that meaningfully exceed existing practical protections, the Equality Act would discriminate against people of faith,” they said. “It would also inflict numerous legal and social harms on Americans of any faith or none.”
The measure first passed the House May 17, 2019, in a bipartisan 236–173 vote, but the Senate did not act on the bill after receiving it. President Donald Trump had threatened to veto the measure if it ever reached his desk.
House leadership pledged to see it reintroduced in the 117th Congress. On Feb. 18, Rep. David Cicilline, D-Rhode Island, reintroduced it. Democratic Sens. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin are expected to reintroduce a Senate version soon.
With sadness.. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/congress-sexual-orientation-civil-rights-gender/2021/02/25/1351bea4-7779-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html
The “Equality” Act is an outrage and another tool to discredit marriage between a man and a woman and the sacredness of the family. Unfortunately, until now these issues (abortion, surrogate births, .euthanasia etc.) were not even hinted at by our Hierarchy or from the pulpits.
Our young people are not adequately prepared to enter the extreme liberal university environments where a conservative point of view is not only shunned but prohibited…….
How can our Hierarchy command accountability from the politicians they so quickly run to
embrace? Where are the St. John Chrisostoms’, the St. Athanasios’ who valiantly stood for the
Orthodox faith against all odds??? Will there be any faith left when the Lord Jesus Christ returns to judge the world?
The GOA doesn’t believe that it’s an American institution serving America and its people, so moral positions on the major American issues of the day are unnecessary and a nuisance.
The major preoccupation for GOA is selling tables to all the Black Tie events to be held when Bart comes to the US in November to take credit for our spending just shy of $100M to create an advertising billboard for a Spanish-Swiss architect.
Globalists – of new world order– makes no difference if they are democrats– as plenty of blame to go around from 1984 on, when new world order globalists planted themselves in the U.N. –among them were prominent republicans. This has never been democrat versus republican—this is globalists versus americans!
True— church is 100% globalist– Trump comes along– disturbs their agenda–this equality thing they passed has been in the works for decades.. God help our children and their families! No one will speak out from church leadership— some will boycott–lose members –kala na pathoun if they don’t speak out on yesterday’s abomination………
God bless Franklin G.
Elpidophoros needs to RESIGN ASAP.
Since “His Incompetence” began, things have gotten worse, not better!
The hype was, Elps was our “hope” but he’s a dark cloud on GOA, Elps crashed & burned; his latest scandal: choosing two Archimandrites from Turkey & Greece who’ve embarrassed Archdiocese.
Time To Go Back To Istanbul ElpiNotForUs.
Having a physical confrontation is the least concerning and egregious problem with the 2 archimendrites. Ask anyone who went to seminary with Father Billie Drossos. He is bad news.
The BS “Equality Act” is certainly something Patr. Bartholomew & AB ElpiNotForUs will be all in for, anything the Godless Left dictates they obey.
Soon those two airheads will gush over it & give sermons, along with feckless Pope!