Last week the house pass the Equality Act 224-206. While this Act was presented as protection for the rights of gays, lesbians and transgenders it really goes deeper than that. This Act, while it provides rights for one community, takes away the rights of another community. The Act ignores religious freedoms and choices. If the above mentioned communities are refused service because of how they identify then that business and/or person refusing the service can go to jail regardless of the reason. It would not matter if the refusal was based on religious beliefs. The Act also permits males who identify as females into women's locker rooms, restrooms and sports. So it is ok to make a woman feel uncomfortable and intrude on her rights but it is not ok to do the same to a transgender? Ugh. As for women's sports, there was a biological male that had participated in I believe a women's wrestling even and broke his female opponent's skull. This happened twice with this same biological male. So we stripped the rights of women which fought hard for their rights and gave them to those who are in the LHTBQ community. Now this is the real kicker, children can have gender surgery and hormone treatments as young as 3 years of age without the parent's consent. In fact, they can have the surgery and treatments at any adolescent age without the parent's consent. A parent refusing to allow their child to have gender surgery and/or treatments under this Act are considered to be abusive parents and we know what can happen there. We did not need another bill for civil rights because we already have one. ARE YOU SCARED YET? I am TERRIFIED.
