Mon Sep 19, 2022 – 10:07 am EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Liberal Republican Senators who hope to find some sort of compromise on Democratic Party legislation to enshrine a “right” to same-sex “marriage” in federal law are just “playing games with religious liberty,” according to a civil rights official for President Donald Trump.
“Senators should stop playing games with religious liberty and marriage,” Roger Severino, the former Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights director under Trump, wrote in The Daily Signal on September 15. The bill would codify the activist Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which like Roe v. Wade “found” a “right” that did not exist. The Respect for Marriage Act could also pave the way for polygamy. It has already passed the U.S. House of Representatives.
Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney has said he would be open to supporting the bill if there were religious liberty protections, but Severino, who is now a vice president at the Heritage Foundation, argued any language on religious liberty would be a farce.
“Bad lawyers draft excessively wordy amendments because they can’t help it, but cunning ones do it when they are trying to misdirect,” he wrote. “Here,
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