Stop Equality Act! Organizations to Contact and Confront

Hi www.TCFamily.org Leadership Group, Friends, and Pastor Friends: May 9, 2019

Matt Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel, describes HR-5 (HouseOfRepresentatives-5) or S.788 (Senate), the so-called "Equality Act", as "…the greatest threat to religious freedom coming out of Congress…ever." It is currently being rushed through Congress now.

HERE IS THE BEST INFO I COULD FIND TO HELP IN STOPPING HR-5 THE “EQUALITY ACT” FROM PASSING:

1) Go HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION (www.lc.org/HR5) at Liberty Council’s website and see how great an attack on Religious Freedom this “Equality Act” is. [Takes about 1 minute or less.]

2) Go HERE (https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen3/19b/Stopping-Equality-Act/index.html) to see MassResistance’s great description of how dangerous to Christians the so-called “Equality Act” would be.

3) Go to the Crosstalk America “Equality Act Advances & State Dept. to Advance LGBT” article THAT I PASTED BELOW the ##### MARKS and listen to or download the excellent 48 minute interview. 

They list phone numbers that you can use to call. (I called all 8 numbers in less than 30 minutes and

politely expressed my strong objections.) The State Dept. gave me an “Office of Public Engagement”

number to call (202-647-6575) where you can only leave a 30 second message – which I did – but I also made sure to call all 4 listed State Dept. numbers to politely hopefully help swamp them with strong pro-family and pro-religious freedom concerns.

4) Watch this “Sing a Little Louder” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofcs9Y7qL4s) YouTube (11min) – that Matt Staver recommended – to see what happens when we stay silent.

(I’ve also ATTACHED this letter as a PDF file just in case the formatting of this email as you receive it is messed up.)

Godspeed,

Bill Wiesner / www.TCFamily.org Founder

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CROSSTALK

Equality Act Advances & State Dept. to Advance LGBT

https://www.vcyamerica.org/2019/05/06/equality

(2) HOW TO HELP STOP SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO’S PLANS TO MAKE A

PROCLAMATION DURING THIS MONTH OF MAY THAT WOULD PROMOTE LGBT

AROUND THE WORLD.

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Mat Staver is the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. Mat has over 230 published legal

opinions, has authored 8 scholarly law review publications and 10 books. He’s filed numerous briefs

and argued in many federal and state courts including the U.S. Supreme Court where he has also

argued two landmark cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

What is the Equality Act (HR-5)? To quote Mat, it’s, ‘…the greatest threat to religious freedom coming out of Congress…ever.’ It’s rapidly moving through the U.S. House where Mat believes it will pass.

From there it moves to the Senate and that’s where he feels it can be stopped.

The Equality Act amends a number of federal laws by elevating sexual orientation and gender identity to the same level as race in areas such as public accommodation, employment, etc. This expansion will cover every aspect of American life. In other words, anything you can’t currently do regarding race you won’t be able to do legally respective to LGBTQ. This includes cities, states, churches, religious organizations, all schools through the college and university level regardless of whether they’re Christian, public or private.

Looking at this more specifically, just as bathrooms can’t be segregated on the basis of race, under

this law a church, for example, couldn’t tell a man that he has to use the men’s restroom if that man

says or insists that he’s a woman and is entitled to use those facilities. To stop that individual would

be discrimination based on LGBT.

One of the proposed amendments to the bill was to strike religious freedom exemptions from it. That

failed by a vote of 22-10 which means there’s still no religious freedom protection in the bill as it

currently stands.

Jim played two quotes from the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler. One

addresses the matter of religious liberty in this matter and the other concerns transgender athletes

and their impact on women’s sports. In both cases, Mat referred to evidence that exposed the false

nature of Chairman Nadler’s statements.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has announced their support for HR-5. So if you’re a business

owner, you can let your feelings be heard on this issue by calling the executive vice president and

chief policy officer of the chamber at the contact information listed below.

While all this is going on concerning HR-5, Mat also noted that more than one credible source is

indicating that the State Department will issue a pro-LGBT directive this month to worldwide

embassies through Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. See the numbers listed below for contacting the

State Department.

More Information for Action:

Liberty Counsel

www.lc.org

www.lcaction.org/hr5

TAKE ACTION Phone Numbers you could call after listening to the 48 minute interview:

“EQUALITY ACT”:

White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414

White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111

Senate Switchboard: (202)-224-3121 [TWO MICHIGAN U.S. SENATORS]

House of Representatives Switchboard: (202)-225-3121

STATE DEPT PHONE NUMBERS: [TO STOP MIKE POMPEO FROM PROMOTING LGBT

WORLDWIDE]

Lisa Kenna – Executive Secretary – (202)-647-8448

Eva Weigold-Schultz – Deputy Executive Secretary (202)-647-5302

John Sullivan – Deputy Secretary of State – (202)-647-8636

Katharine Nanavatty – Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary (202)-647-5290

U.S. Chamber of Commerce [BECAUSE THEY ENDORSED THE “EQUALITY ACT”]

Neil Bradley – 202-463-5310 nbradley@uschamber.com

UGH: Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce Promotes LGBT Agenda

I had taken photos of this flyer from three months ago:

That word "Free" is featured prominently.

What is liberating, however, about abusing your body and hurting your mind and emotional balance with destructive behaviors?

Minors are not in the best position to make decisions about their lives, their behaviors, their sexual preferences, even.

The consequences of these behaviors needs to be shared.

And yet that's not occuring. Events like the one featured below spend more time pushing this radical fraud of "Acceptance", when in reality the whole agenda behind this LGBT affirmation process wants to make destructive, deviant, and dysfunctional behaviors "normal."

Notice also that this event actually came with a price tag!

If you want to go to an LGBT Support Group, you need to pay up!

Who's getting the money?

More residents in Manhattan Beach and throughout the South Bay should contact the Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce to get some answers.

This nonsense about being free to be LGBT is based on a long set of fraud, lies, and deception.

There is no liberty in lies. NONE!

John McCain: Opportunist, Not a Maverick

US Senator John McCain has died. I imagine that many writers will pile on the praises for the recently-deceased “maverick” US Senator from the Grand Canyon State.

Sorry, but I will not be joining the chorus of eulogies. Perhaps he was a saint in combat, but as an elected official he was one of the dregs. As Thomas Sowell once commented, being a veteran is not a “Get Out of Criticism Free” card. For any veteran’s service, we should be grateful. Their prior efforts in the military, however, do not cover for their failures, fallouts, sins, and betrayals once in office. In 2005, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a Congressman from the San Diego area, was convicted of multiple bribery charges in 2005. He didn’t get off easy just because he was a veteran. The same standard should hold true for anyone else, regardless of their service in the American Military.

Was McCain a crook? He weathered considerable scandal in the late 1980’s following the Savings and Loan collapse, but was never charged with anything. I have no interest in pursuing allegations, aspersions, or conspiracy theories. On his votes, on his rhetoric, on his policies, I appraise him, and John McCain is found wanting.

It’s hard to imagine someone like this guy replacing Barry Goldwater. Both were Presidential candidates, but Goldwater was a gold standard conservative. With a consistent libertarian streak, Goldwater stood by his principles, demanding a clean sweep of the D.C. Swamp long before such calls were popular. When President Richard Nixon was foundering under credible obstruction of justice charges, Goldwater joined with then House minority leader Ben Rhodes (also of Arizona) to urge Nixon’s resignation.

In stark contrast, John McCain was not a principled maverick, but a Swampy opportunist, a big government militarian who shamed those who wanted measured military ventures. He also slammed anyone else who skeptically opposed sudden interventionist campaigns. Even anti-Trump, pro-K Street conservative contrarian took offense when McCain questioned the patriotism of his anti-war critics.

There was a time, however, when John McCain stood for principle, bucking his party because he thought it was the right thing to do. In 2000 he ran against George W. Bush, the so-called Establishment favorite, capturing the outsider momentum in the New Hampshire primary with double-digit victory. When Texas Governor George W. Bush realized that he couldn’t follow his father’s centrist globalism to win the nomination, he turned right, slammed McCain with controversial smears (or at least his supporters did), and swept South Carolina. Of course, McCain’s blasting the “religious right” didn’t endear him to conservatives, either.

After Bush’s election, the maverick became a fly-by-night statist. Big Government “Compassionate conservatism” was the way to win big money for a political future, so McCain began voting that way. He had a penchant for voting against his political rivals’ agendas, too. He voted against Bush’s tax cuts. He pushed for McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform.” He was willing to work with moderate pro-military Democrat Joseph Lieberman to combat climate change.

The greatest betrayal, of course, came with his ongoing dance with Democrats and other Chamber of Commerce Republicans for comprehensive immigration “reform”, i.e. amnesty. Thankfully, these proposals failed many times, and yet McCain insisted on this disastrous agenda, while representing a border state where one of his potential successors has called for building a wall between Arizona and California.

As a Presidential candidate, he was never my first choice. I lined up behind firebrand Congressman Tom Tancredo, then Romney for one reason: immigration. McCain did win the nomination in spite of massive opposition within the GOP, so I supported him in the general election. It’s remarkable, then and now, how little McCain wanted to fight back. Once in a while, he mocked his upstart opponent, Junior Senator Barack Obama. This historic first-time black nominee, however, hindered McCain’s capacity to campaign vigorously. Did the county want to bring in a nationalized health care system? A corrupt cap and trade program? Obama was planning to change the country and the world, but McCain spent more time distancing himself from Bush, all while suspending his campaign to bail out the Big Banks.

McCain the Swamp Thing embraced greater odium when he ran for re-election as a US Senator. Campaigning against his amnesty pandering, he fought hard to veer right during the 2010 Tea Party primary. “Build the Dang Fence” he growled. Two years later, he was building more bridges with amnesty proponents, playing both sides to make himself the star of the show in the middle.

Granted, John McCain was a hero. As a war prisoner in Hanoi, he refused to be released before others who had been imprisoned longer than he. For the record, Trump had acquiesced that McCain was a hero: "He's a war hero because he was captured," Trump had said, "I like people that weren't captured."  I also like veterans who do not get captured by bitterness and grandstanding. McCain hated Trump, and I hated McCain’s disdain. Shameful. Like so many Washington fixtures, McCain couldn’t stand that Trump, who wasn’t “one of them” had captured the White House, something that the privileged son of two naval officers couldn’t do.

The culmination of McCain’s personal opprobrium broke out not with the leaked Steele Dossier, but his “No” vote on against the Obamacare skinny repeal. Never have I witnessed such self-serving grandstanding. With arm raised high, after fifteen minutes of fraternizing with both sides of the aisle, he killed a real chance at repeal of that terrible bill, not because it wouldn’t serve Arizonans, but because his legacy of bipartisan double-dealing had come to an end with Trump’s ascension, and McCain was going to frustrate as many as he could with him.

Cancer is a terrible thing, and it must have been a tough decision for McCain and family to see him renounce further treatment. I recognize his service as a soldier, but as a representative, as a politician he was another self-serving opportunist, and I feel no remorse that he is gone.