The on-going abortion (anti-life) atrocity and an advancing (anti-one-man, one-woman marriage, anti-natural family) homosexual agenda are the two most critical issues facing America today. Recently the perverse, unnecessary and righteous-sounding Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) passed the U.S. House and is headed for passage in the Senate, if Senator Edward Kennedy gets his way. Today's article is part one of a two-part series about this key piece of legislation. It has major ramifications for the health and life of America and for God-honoring people everywhere. See my previous article about ENDA.
WHAT ENDA MEANS FOR AMERICA
On the surface, a piece of legislation may be given an impressive, yet very deceptive, title. ENDA is an example of such deceit. The recently passed Employment Nondiscrimination Act (put-an-END-A to freedom of speech and freedom to the exercise of one’s faith) is an example of such deceit. Like so-called HATE CRIMES legislation this law is reprehensible and needs to be scrutinized in detail to expose its underlying nefarious purposes.
Ironically, the stated purpose of the bill is supposedly to stop “discrimination” against persons who practice homosexual behavior, but, instead, in the end it will discriminate against true Christian believers. The ultimate affect of this horrible law is the silencing of the proclamation of God’s inerrant Word and stifling of Christians’ right to express and live by their moral convictions. Therefore, anyone who refuses to compromise their biblical beliefs that homosexuality, specifically homosexual behavior, is immoral and abhorrent to God and is incompatible to any civilized society, and furthermore that marriage is between one man and one woman, that person or organization will be criminalized.
Actually, there is little or no discrimination against persons who seek sexual relations with the same sex. Most of the stories about alleged Hate Crimes and Discrimination against homosexuals are exaggerated or even prefabricated by a sympathetic and homosexual-agenda supportive media. As a matter of fact, many homosexuals and lesbians have very lucrative and politically powerful positions, far higher of a percentage than the general population as a whole. Additionally, there are already sufficient wage and labor regulation that cover the workplace. Persons and their supporters desiring to justify, to rationalize or to legitimize their illegitimate, immoral, unnatural and unhealthy behaviors seek this legislation.
Just as there is virtually no need for new immigration laws, only enforcement of existing laws, so there is no need for any more laws creating additional protected class, especially when we are talking about people who willingly choose to practice a certain type of behavior. It would be analogous to thieves seeking special laws protecting their activity.
Much of rest of the discussion in this article is based on remarks made by Representative Randy Forbes (R-VA-4th), a moderate Republican, made in an interview with Ken Blackwell of on the Family Research Council (FRC) Washington Watch Weekly radio show interviewer last weekend. I have transcribed some of the program's content below.
ENDA WARS AGAINST AMERICAN’S RIGHTS & VALUES
Ken Blackwell referred to ENDA as "one of the most damaging bills related to first amendment rights."
Congressman Forbes started his explanation by stating that ENDA was sponsored by the new Democrat majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. It is a further erosion of BASIC VALUES across the country, and will cause basic limitations on freedom of speech and freedom of action that many people of faith will experience across the nation. Just in the last couple of weeks in our Capitol (see my AGC … article) we have seen a huge movement in the Nation’s Capitol to:
(1) Remove God from the certification of flags
(2) Remove any kind of statement relating to faith in the Washington Monument
(3) Take any reference to God out of the flag folding ceremonies at our Veterans cemeteries.
ENDA DISSECTED
The ENDA bill was proclaimed by many liberal groups as crucial to advancing the homosexual agenda. They say that it is the most important homosexual vote that has ever been taken to date in the Congress of the United States. Furthermore, ENDA will serve as the FOUNDATION on which to build future (anti-marriage, pro-homosexual) legislation.
Congressman Forbes sees ENDA as having two major fearsome impacts. One, ENDA prohibits anybody in an employment situation from hiring or “discriminating” in any fashion against anyone based on actual or even PERCEIVED sexual orientation. This is the first time any legislation has ever been passed dealing with sexual orientation in the workplace, more bizarre and troublesome is that it establishes the notion of discrimination by employers of PERCEIVED sexual orientation. As will be noted later, ENDA will be another bonanza for trial attorneys.
Two, the other fear of this legislation is what has already has already occurred in state courts in Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Jersey. Legislation like ENDA, supposedly nondiscriminatory legislation, has been used to in conjunction with activist judges saying that the legislation shows STATE POLICY and they use that to tear down marriage statutes so that they can say you can no longer have a marriage statute that limits marriage to one man and one woman. The difficulty with this type of legislation is that it becomes a SPRINGBOARD so that the activist judges can use it to make additional laws. Then once they have those ruling in a particular state – the full faith and credit clause makes it applicable across the country.
Tomorrow we will conclude our discussion of ENDA, which a one of the three major movements underway in Congress which Congressman Forbes has identified as negative political drivers. We will also discuss what we average Americans can do to stop ENDA from becoming the law of the land.
to be continued
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