By National Organization for Marriage, 7/23/19.
Political correctness keeps coming back like a
bad horror movie. The latest threat to your sovereignty is HR 3222.
Now comes HR 3222, the misnamed 'Do No Harm' Act, which in fact would do great harm to all people of faith. The legislation specifically directs the courts to ignore the religious liberty rights of Americans when someone claims that asserting those rights inflicts "dignitary harm" on someone else. So the same-sex couple in Jack Phillips' case simply would have to say that they felt harmed by Jack's refusal on religious grounds to design a custom cake for their 'wedding' ceremony, and the courts would be directed to expunge Jack's religious liberty rights.
NOM will not sit idly by and allow Democrats in Congress to strip Americans of their constitutionally guaranteed right to live their lives consistent with their deeply-help religious beliefs. We will fight any legislative attempt by Congressional Democrats to elevate so-called "dignitary harm" of LGBT citizens and others above the religious liberty rights guaranteed to every American by the US Constitution.
This bill would deny any religious liberty
assertion if the religious liberty claim would cause "dignitary harm"
to another individual. What exactly is dignitary harm?
The proposed law doesn’t say, but legal experts
believe it means any perceived slight that is claimed by someone, regardless of the intent of the
individual asserting the claim—effectively ending religious liberty protections
in most circumstances!
Let's take the example of Christian baker Jack
Phillips. Phillips declined to design a custom wedding cake for a same-sex
couple because doing so would violate his religious beliefs that marriage is
the union of a man and a woman. LGBT extremists targeted Jack with claims of
discrimination even though the same-sex couple had many other options of bakers
to handle their 'wedding.'
The state of Colorado sided with the same-sex
couple, giving Jack's religious concerns short shrift. But the US Supreme Court
reversed the Colorado ruling, finding in favor of Jack Phillips' religious
liberty rights, and admonishing states that they may not blithely dismiss concerns
that Americans have about protecting their constitutional right to live in
concert with their religious beliefs.
This latest legislative threat with the
introduction of the Do No Harm Act is more evidence of the abandonment of the
principle of balance by Democrat leaders in Congress. While the Democrats have
been controlled by liberals in Congress for decades, there used to be at least
a modest attempt to reign in excesses and provide some semblance of balance in
lawmaking. So, for example, while the Democrats insisted on supporting
abortion, they also ensured that no taxpayer funds would be used to pay for
abortions so that pro-life Americans would not suffer the dual indignity of
having to accept abortions and also pay for them. And while Democrat policy
strongly embraced the LGBT agenda, there was a recognition that not every
American had to support this agenda and exemptions could be made for people
with sincere religious objections. These attempts at providing some balance are
now denounced by Democrat leaders who insist that no dissent, disagreement or
differentiation with the course demanded by so-called progressives will be
tolerated.
Comments
Making free speech
against the law is unconstitutional. It is consistent with the tyranny imposed
in George Orwell’s book “1984”. Political correctness began with Thumper in the
Disney cartoon movie “Bambi” when he said: “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t
say anything at all”.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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