GOP Senators To Re-Introduce Anti-Gay 'Religious Freedom' Bill Next Year

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published DECEMBER 12, 2016, 1:44 PM EDT

The Republican sponsors of a so-called "religious freedom" bill plan on re-introducing the legislation next year in the hopes that Donald Trump's election will boost chances for the bill to be signed into law, Buzzfeed News reported.

The bill, the First Amendment Defense Act, would ban the federal government from revoking tax exemptions from or denying grants to individuals or corporations with religious or "moral" beliefs opposing same-sex marriage.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the legislation last year, and a counterpart measure was filed in the House, but neither bill made it to a full vote in either the House or Senate.

"Hopefully November’s results will give us the momentum we need to get this done next year," Conn Carroll, a spokesman for Lee, told Buzzfeed.

Cruz also told Buzzfeed News that Trump's election gives him hope that the bill could gain support in 2017.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/first-amendment-defense-act-trump

[Renew Deal]

1. Nope

[msongs]

2. "Sorry, we do not serve christians here" due to our moral beliefs. that will be ok too

(or pick any other identity group you care to not serve)

[katmondoo]

3. They just can't stop with the misery

[mountain grammy]

4. When it comes to any legislation after 1/20/17

it'll have to get Putin's ok.. pretty sure he'll love this one.

[greymattermom]

5. Just tell the baker that the cake is for

Morgan and Terry
Jamie and Jessie
Casey and Riley
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/there-are-922-unisex-names-in-america-is-yours-one-of-them/

[Blue Shoes]

6. but..but..he held up a rainbow flag that one time!

Obviously he cant hate LGBT people. /s

[jmowreader]

13. There was a zippo in the other hand. Be not fooled.

[BigDemVoter]

7. Time to post signs on restaurant windows: No Fundamentalist Christians allowed.

I write that in semi-jest, but following THEIR logic.. . . ..

[0rganism]

8. gamble with someone else's freedom, prepare to lose your own

"moral beliefs" notwithstanding

[turbinetree]

9. That's the f***ing ticket deversion and deflections

to hurt people in this country while we really have a Constitutional crises developing with one big serial predator: and the "news" media not and I repeat NOT hammering these people on this Article in the Constitution, and why they aren't holding hearings but they just have to inflict harm on people for there sexual orientation, like there nothing else better to do


Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution contains what is known as the Foreign Emoluments Clause, which reads, “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”


FU with Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee yet---------------- fascists, making over $174,000 a year getting ready for another tax payer pay raise and they want to have theocracy

[SDJay]

10. I Morally Object

to anyone who watches Fox News for information. Sorry, I won't do business with folks like you.

This type of thinking is exactly right. People with functional IQs will need to do the same thing that the Satanists did in places like OK. Expose the cynicism, and do it relentlessly.

[azureblue]

11. Bacon!

Leviticus clearly says that eating pork is a sin. Can we use "religious freedom", to go flog Ted for eating bacon?

[Angry Dragon]

16. yes

[YOHABLO]

12. These people are out of their F-ing mind.

The country has moved on. Most of us take care of each other, we don't hate, we get along, we embrace all walks of life. And these people want to take us back to the stone age. I say bring it on .. and you'll see what happens.

[janx]

14. Goin' nowhere.

[Angry Dragon]

15. Why do they want special laws??