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Feb 26, 2021 · February 26, 2021 - Jim Denison, PhD. 11 minutes. The Equality Act has been called “the most invasive threat to religious liberty ever proposed in America.”. It would amend the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 by forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. In addition, this is crucial: the Act forbids appeal ...
Sep 1, 2021 · If passed, the Equality Act will amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act (specifically, titles II, III, IV, VI, VII, and IX) to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The Equality Act contains some good aspects, but there are even more negative elements. In addition to stripping away protection that religious ...
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Apr 23, 2021 · The Equality Act is a comprehensive federal bill that has been introduced in prior sessions of Congress, and was reintroduced on February 18, 2021 as H.R. 5 . Although this bill is not yet law, President Biden has made passing the Act a top priority. As of March 2021, the Equality Act had been approved by the House of Representatives but had ...
Apr 9, 2021 · The Equality Act defines “establishment” as “an individual whose operations affect commerce and who is a provider of a good, service, or program; and shall not be…limited to a physical ...
Apr 20, 2021 · The bill—which in February passed the first stage of becoming law—would have wide-ranging implications for Christians. Most notably, it would throttle religious liberty protections for ...
- Matthew Lee Anderson
For the past few months, American Christian commentators have watched the Equality Act (Amendment HR5) make its way through Congress. The Act presents a serious challenge to religious freedom and directly affects the rights of Christians and other religious worshippers to express beliefs that may be contradictory to the cultural zeitgeist and ...
Apr 27, 2019 · What is the Equality Act? The Equality Act would amend two landmark civil-rights laws—the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act—to change the definition of “sex.”. Instead of the term being solely in reference to biological men and women, it would also cover sexual orientation or gender identity for the purposes of ...
