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HAMMER: House Democrats’ ‘Equality Act’ Is Both Unnecessary And Unacceptable For Religious Liberty

Josh Hammer

The Jeffersonian formulation in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal,” realized and brought to fruition nearly a century later by Lincoln, serves as the nation’s founding creed. And while Americans should all be thankful for the republic’s deeply embedded commitment to equality under the law, we should also all be terrified of the increasingly unhinged version of radical über-egalitarianism that cultural Marxists and post-liberal leftists deploy to bring their political foes under complete submission.

House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has proclaimed H.R.5, the “Equality Act,” as a top legislative priority for the current Congress. This putatively anodyne but actually harrowing piece of legislation would not only add sexual orientation and “gender identity” protections to our nation’s civil rights laws, but would browbeat religious dissenters into submission without any remotely resembling proper dispensations. Here is the full summary of the Act on Congress.gov, as provided by Congressional Research Service:

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