Wed Feb 9, 2022 – 2:11 pm ESTWed Feb 9, 2022 – 2:21 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – A potential sign of conservative pushback paying off, three Republican members of the House of Representatives have withdrawn their support for a so-called “compromise” alternative to the far-left LGBT “Equality Act.”
For years, Democrats and LGBT lobbyists have agitated for passage of the Equality Act, which would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include “sex,” “sexual orientation,” and “gender identity” among expressly recognized “non-discrimination” categories in “public accommodations” (the definition of which would be dramatically expanded). It would also force employers of 15 or more people to recognize their claimed “gender identity,” forbid them from “discriminating” based on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity,” and mandate transgender “access” to sex-specific facilities.
Conservatives argue that the bill, which has the backing of President Joe Biden, would not merely protect homosexual or gender-confused Americans from actual harm, but rather force religious adoption agencies to place children in same-sex homes; force the likes of photographers, florists, and bakers to participate in same-sex “weddings”; force employers and businesses to accommodate cross-dressing and sex-change treatments regardless of their own values or policies;
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