Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) forced the upper chamber to delay a procedural vote on the bill this month until 10 p.m. after he was unable to win the necessary support for his amendment to further strengthen the religious liberty provisions. “They shouldn’t be able to punish religious belief,” Lee said on the Senate floor before the Nov. 16 vote. “That’s all I want. A protection saying the federal government may not punish any individual or entity based on a religious or moral conviction-based belief about marriage. That is not too much to ask.” (The Hill)
Fuck you, Mike Lee. You insist that somehow this NO NATIONAL OFFICIALRELIGIOUS NATION, has the power to create laws that won’t discriminate against Holy Rollers, but IT can and will discriminate against those for whom the RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS have a problem! Religious Liberty, as in some religions DICTATING their own PREJUDICES against those Americans for which our Constitution guaranteed liberty, and freedom? You are a Homophobe, plain and clear. And I wonder Mike Lee, as a Mormon, what about Interracial marriages? Like other religious groups, Mormons have a complicated history around race. Until a few decades ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints taught that they “shall be a white and a delightsome people,” a phrase taken from the Book of Mormon. Until the 1970s, the LDS Church also restricted black members’ participation in important rituals and prohibited black men from becoming priests (The Atlantic)
“This bill maximizes the protections we were able to get with the votes we have,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told Changing America. “We can certainly build on that to try to fully codify the constitutional law, but this was an important and necessary step.” “We’re settling for crumbs,” Alejandra Caraballo, a prominent LGBTQ activist and instructor at Harvard Law’s cyberlaw clinic, tweeted after the amended bill was released. (The Hill).
I am an American citizen. I am a Jewish religious American citizen. I am a Gay Male American citizen, and today, once again MY RIGHTS, MY DIGNITY, and MY CHOICES remain in JEOPARDY!
