You mean the Democrats don’t hold the best interests of Christians in their hearts?
Senator Mike Lee of Utah has announced he will vote against the Respect for Marriage Act because the religious liberty protections are “inadequate.”
I think he should’ve said “purposefully inadequate.”
Fox News: Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Wednesday criticized the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation that would codify same-sex marriage into federal law, arguing the bill has inadequate protections for religious liberty.
Lee shared a statement from Roger Severino, vice president of domestic policy at the Heritage Foundation, who asserted the bipartisan bill would be “used as a cudgel against those who believe in the reality of marriage as between a man and a woman.”
“Roger Severino is right: No American should face legal threats for holding sincere religious beliefs or convictions,” Lee wrote on Twitter. “The bill before the Senate presents such a threat, and offers protections for religious freedom that can only be described as severely anemic.”
Lee said he offered to support the bill if the sponsors would include an amendment to prohibit the government from removing tax-exempt status based on religious beliefs about same-sex marriage. The sponsors adamantly refused even to consider that.
Why?
Because they full intend to weaponize the new definition of marriage against Christians.
So, the bill passed the Senate Wednesday. And will certainly pass the House.
Matt Sharp, senior counsel at ADF, recently told CBN’s Faithwire. “What it does is requires the federal government to recognize any type of marriage that’s recognized by a state.”
Sharp warned the bill, which has already been passed by the House and is poised to be taken up on the Senate floor Wednesday, “threatens religious liberty” in the process.
“It empowers the federal government with these broad new powers to go after people, faith, faith-based organizations and others that hold traditional views about marriage, biblically based views about marriage, and gives the federal government broad powers to punish organizations and people that hold those,” he said.
Sharp also warned, if passed, the legislation could open Christians up to lawsuits at the federal level, noting these infractions could harm believers running businesses and charitable organizations. He even questioned whether some Christian nonprofits could find their tax-exempt status in peril.
“This explosion of what marriage means is going to have these severe consequences for so many people across the country,” he said.
I know I say it all the time. They’re coming for you. We’re entering dark times. With bills like this the left is just dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s. Pray for the courage to stand up for marriage. Pray for the courage to remain a Christian in a militantly secular world.
The left wants this. The Democrats want to continue fighting for gay marriage. They want bakers and photographers and churches to resist. Why? Because gay marriage polls well. They want to keep this “struggle” in the headlines so that every time someone dares to affirm a Christian view of marriage they can publicize them, demonize them, and run on this issue.
Oh, and they also hate us so there’s that too.
November 17, 2022 at 9:50 am
The persecution of the church has been around since our Lord was put on the cross, it will always be here.
I read the martyrology each morning as part of the hour of prime, to expect it to go away is wishful thinking. The Lord said they hate me they will hate you too. Wish it were not so, but there it is ( my words).
Choose who you follow, God or Mammon, the choice will be harder as this epic unfolds.
Have a blessed day!
November 17, 2022 at 10:50 am
That was very different. The Romans only wanted to make examples of a few and when this didn’t work or worked too well they always stopped. The govwrnor who stopped the persecutiob when too many people showed up saying “I’m a Chriatian, kill me too” and the govwrnor shouted “Don’t you miserable people have enough cliffs to throw yourselves off of that you come to me to beg me to kill you?” and he ended the persecution. But Libtards literally want you all dead. Its not the same. This time martyrdom cannot just be accepted. Back then a few martyrs accepted it to save the other Christians. Now they would just kill everyone. So fighting back is the only Christian option; martyrdom is now Satanic.
November 17, 2022 at 10:46 am
The whole bill is to put you in jail for not being gay.
November 17, 2022 at 11:52 am
I remember being told by a number of people a few years ago that it was “probably” a mortal sin not to vote for Mitt Romney for president. Please note that this golden boy of the GOP and political Catholics is supporting this bill.
It takes more to be a Conservative (if that term is to have any meaning) than thinking golf is good, taxes are bad, and
November 17, 2022 at 11:59 am
Whoops! Didn’t finish that last sentence! It takes more than thinking golf is good, taxes are bad, and war is profitable.
Sadly, those seem to be the governing principles of the GOP. Let’s face it, though: what we called conservatism during the Reagan years could not survive the end of the Cold War because it was mostly anti-Communism. Conservatism was at the time a coalition of those who opposed Communism because Communism is spiritually bad and those who opposed Communism because Communism is bad for business. Today, however, it is clear that a lot of money can be made by corrupting body and soul — what is spiritually bad is good for business.