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.

As religious liberty expert Ryan Anderson notes for The Daily Signal, the Equality Act would be seriously deleterious for religious dissenters who refuse to capitulate to the emerging post-modern societal consensus with respect to sexual orientation and “gender identity” affirmation.

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As Daily Wire contributor Rabbi Yaakov Menken of the conservative Coalition for Jewish Values noted in a  letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), these various provisions “would require recognition of the gender a person prefers to be, rather than the biological organism he or she was created to be, [and] would demand [religious Americans] cease to operate in accordance with our sincerely-held beliefs, moral values and religious education — expressly violating our religious liberty.”

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But these heavy-handed governmental provisions would pose massive problems not only for religious Christians, Jews, and Muslims – they are equally problematic for any employer, surgeon, or small business owner who believes that “sex” and “gender” are merely biological synonyms and that transgenderism is scientifically, psychologically, or morally problematic.

 Source: Daily Wire