MassResistance Fighting to Stop the Equality Act!

Hey MassResistance Activists and Allies:

We are all working very hard to stop The Equality Act, which is all about granting special privileges to sexual deviance and perversion.

Everyone of our chapter leaders has their lists of contacts.

Check out this link, and you will find the contact information for every current House Rep.

Click here.

Contact as many House Reps as you can, and tell them any or all of the following reasons why they must REJECT the Equality Act:

There is a terrible bill working its way through Congress right now. It’s called
the “Equality Act” (HR 5), and it’s anything but about equality.

 It’s about special rights for the Destructive LGBT Agenda!

Authored by openly homosexual Congressman David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island), this legislation aims to “expand” the Civil Rights Act and its protections to include homosexuals, transgenders, and individuals who identify with other paraphilias.

This legislation is nothing more than a Trojan Horse to stamp out our God-Given rights, enshrined in the United States Constitution. It’s an attack on life, the family, and our society as a whole.

If this bill passes and gets signed into law, these are some of the terrible outcomes that will follow:

1.      This bill will undermine the Civil Rights Movement which black Americans fought for.

2.      Churches will get sued or lose their tax-exemption status if they do not accommodate LGBT behaviors.

3.      Children would be forced to learn about destructive LGBT behaviors in public schools. Parents who try to oppose this curriculum could be charged with illegal discrimination.

4.      Private colleges would lose funding, the power to issue grants and scholarships.

5.      Public accommodations and small businesses would be forced to allow men into women’s bathrooms and vice versa.

6.      Business owners would be forced to violate their freedom of conscience.

7.      Hospitals and clinics will be force to offer experimental and harmful transgender treatments.

8.      Foster and adoption agencies with traditional values will lose the opportunity to place children.

If a House Rep's office asks you where you are calling from, you do not have to tell them. It's OK. The fact that they are getting lots of calls means that they need to pay attention.

Just keep calling the House Reps. Don't worry about email addresses.

If you have finished your assigned list, I encourage you to contact any of the 45 Democratic Congressmen from vulnerable districts:

https://cdn-m4m.chd01.com/pro/uploads/account_2111/1184/45_smallest_prsnt.pdf

Choose any five, or call all of them if you want! They are going to face redistricting next year, and that means they could lose their seat!

Here is the final vote tally for the Equality Act in 2019:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2019/h217

These are the Republicans who voted FOR the Equality Act in 2019, who are still in Congress. We need to go after them:

FL 25th   R   Diaz-Balart, Mario
NY 21st   R   Stefanik, Elise
NY 23rd   R   Reed, Tom
NY 24th   R   Katko, John
PA 1st   R   Fitzpatrick, Brian

Here are some Democrats who did NOT VOTE for the Equality Act in 2019 (who are still in Congress). We should urge them to vote NO or NOT VOTE:

CA 15th   D   Swalwell, Eric [surprise!]

MA 6th   D   Moulton, Seth [?]

No Vote MI 12th   D   Dingell, Debbie [Represents a Black District]

OH 13th   D   Ryan, Tim [working class]

SC 6th   D   Clyburn, Jim [Black]

The current partisan breakdown in Congress is 221 Dems, 211 GOP, 3 Vacancies https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown

Dems can only lose three votes to pass this bill. We need to keep the GOP together and target the above Democratic lawmakers.

Let's do this time! Stop the IN-Equality Act!

Official Statement: Trump Opposes Equality Act!

AMEN TO THAT!

Trump Opposes LGBT Equality Act – It’s ‘Filled with Poison Pills’

Thursday, May 16, 2019

The Trump administration has come out AGAINST the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes in non-discrimination laws.

Religious liberty and conservative groups warn the bill, if passed and signed into law, could have devastating effects on women’s rights and religious freedom. 

“The Trump administration absolutely opposes discrimination of any kind and supports the equal treatment of all; however, this bill in its current form is filled with poison pills that threaten to undermine parental and conscience rights,” a senior administration official told the Washington Blade and several other media outlets.

The Equality Act (H.R. 5) would amend federal laws to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit and the jury system. Among the amended laws would be the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act.

The Equality Act, ADF says, would infringe on the rights of Christian business owners, churches and adoption agencies.

It would “threaten individuals, business owners, and non-profit organizations” by “forcing them to express messages or promote events that violate their deeply held religious convictions,” Kramer wrote. 

It would prohibit churches and religious nonprofits “from requiring their employees to live out their religious beliefs about marriage, sexual morality, and the distinction between the sexes.”

“[Churches] would be required to open their sex-specific facilities to members of the opposite sex. For one Massachusetts church, that would mean it would have to open its women’s shelter for victims of domestic violence to biological males,” she wrote.

The Equality Act would “threaten religious foster care and adoption agencies with closure if they operate according to their beliefs that the best place for a child is a home with a married mother and father.”

It also would harm women’s sports, Kramer wrote, by allowing “male athletes who identify as female to compete in women’s and girls’ athletic competitions.”

“At a Connecticut state track meet, two biological males identifying as girls beat out the female competitors in several events, taking first and second place,” Kramer wrote. “... In Alaska, the same happened – a biological male competed as a girl at the state championship and won.”

Even supporters of the Equality Act are warning women’s sports are in danger. Doriane Coleman, Martina Navratilova and Sanya Richards-Ross wrote a Washington Post editorial saying the bill “would make it unlawful to differentiate among girls and women in sports on the basis of sex for any purpose.” 

“The evidence is unequivocal that starting in puberty, in every sport except sailing, shooting and riding, there will always be significant numbers of boys and men who would beat the best girls and women in head-to-head competition,” the three women asserted. “Claims to the contrary are simply a denial of science.”

Open Letter to Congressional Leaders: No (IN)Equality Act!

May 8, 2019

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi

Speaker of the House

H-232, The Capitol

Washington DC, 20515

The Honorable Steny Hoyer

Majority Leader

H-107, The Capitol

Washington, D.C. 20515

The Honorable Kevin McCarthy

Minority Leader

H-204, The Capitol

Washington DC, 20515

The Honorable Jim Clyburn

Majority Whip

H-329, The Capitol

Washington DC, 20515

The Honorable Steve Scalise

Minority Whip

H-307, The Capitol

Washington, DC 20515

The Honorable Michael Pence

President of the Senate

S-212, The Capitol

Washington, DC 20510

The Honorable Mitch McConnell

Majority Leader

S-230, The Capitol

Washington, DC 20510

The Honorable Charles Schumer

Minority Leader

S-221, The Capitol

Washington, DC 20510

The Honorable John Thune

Majority Whip

S-208, The Capitol

Washington, DC 20510

The Honorable Richard Durbin

Minority Whip

711 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

An Open Letter from Evangelical and Christian leaders on H.R. 5, the Equality Act

Dear Congressional Leaders:

As those tasked with the leadership of the church, and as those seeking to humbly convey

Biblical truth for the benefit of every man, woman, and child in society, we the undersigned

cannot remain silent concerning a dangerous bill pending in Congress known as the Equality Act

(H.R. 5). Not only is it incompatible with God’s Word (the Bible) and the historic teaching of the

church, but the Equality Act is also riddled with threats to religious liberty and the sanctity of

human life. For these reasons, we must state that we adamantly oppose this proposed legislation.

First, the ideology enshrined in the Equality Act—which falsely equates one’s sexual conduct

with immutable characteristics like skin color and ethnicity—is a falsehood that openly

contradicts the scriptural mandates we were given for our good (1 Thess. 4:3-8). We cannot

remain silent and allow this lie to harm countless men, women, and children—whether in this or

any other legislation. Passage of this coercive measure would lay the groundwork for this lie to

enter classrooms across the nation, as public educators could be compelled to teach it to their

students. No family would be safe from the long reach of the Equality Act.

Second, the Equality Act would gut religious freedom protections—even the freedom currently

enjoyed by houses of worship. Under its changes to the employment nondiscrimination

provisions in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, some houses of worship would be barred from

ensuring their leaders and other employees abide by their beliefs about marriage, sexual

behavior, and the distinction between the sexes. Women who identify as men would have to be

accepted as men and therefore potentially eligible to serve in positions reserved for men (such as

a Catholic Priest or Jewish Rabbi). Religious employers that fall under Title VII may be forced

to offer insurance coverage for medical procedures (such as hormone therapy or surgery related

to “gender transition”) that violate biblical teaching. Finally, the Equality Act would expressly do

away with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act’s application to its provisions, thereby

precluding any religious freedom claims which clergy or others might bring. Under such

restrictions, the pathway for the gospel would slowly be closed off.

The Equality Act would also harm faith-based adoption providers and other charities. Faith-based

organizations and others play a vital role in the adoption and foster care system and generally

receive funding under Title IV of the Social Security Act to perform their essential work. There

are over 440,000 children in foster care, and more than 100,000 of them are available for

adoption. The numbers are only getting higher; nearly 90,000 children a year enter the foster care

system due to the opioid crisis alone. The Equality Act would force faith-based organizations to

choose between continuing their life-affirming work or violating the tenets of their faith, the very

faith that drives them to care for society’s most vulnerable.

Third, the Equality Act is unacceptable because it is anti-life and creates a right to demand

abortion from health care providers. The termination of human life in the womb is unacceptable

to any biblically and historically faithful Christian. The responsibility to care for the “least of

these” (Matt. 25:40) is a fundamental responsibility of Christ’s church, and any proposal that undermines a culture of life must be rejected.

As Evangelical and Christian leaders humbly attempting to be faithful to God’s Word and historic biblical doctrine, we must clearly state our opposition to the Equality Act and any similar measures. Simply put, this bill will harm men, women, and children, and stifle freedom. It must

be stopped.

Sincerely,

Arthur Schaper