How the “Equality Act” Is Actually Unequal, Unfair, and Unjust

The Equality Act is legislation that would massively overhaul our federal civil rights framework in order to mandate special privileges for sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), expand abortion access, and gut religious liberty—leaving many to suffer the consequences, including women, children, medical professionals, parents, teachers, students, families (including small business owners), the unborn, churches, religious organizations and schools, people of faith, and even those members of the LGBT community it claims to protect.

It would create these mandates by redefining what we mean by the concept of biological sex, redefining what constitutes “discrimination on the basis of sex,” and significantly expanding the scope of various civil rights laws, while exempting itself from the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, in order to impose its requirements as broadly as possible.

The stated purpose of the bill is to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation. While prohibiting discrimination is a laudable goal, the real effect of this bill would not be to eradicate discrimination, but to erase freedom of thought and belief, along with the ability to hold a different opinion while remaining free from government retribution. The Equality Act would mandate government-imposed inequality and unfairness by requiring acceptance of a particular ideology about sexual ethics, while leaving no room for differing opinions and legitimate public debate. Simply put, the Equality Act mandates an anti-life, anti-family, and anti-faith agenda throughout federal law, and would be a disaster for all Americans.

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