Bishop Wooden Monologue – “The Equality Act”
Upon receiving the endorsement of the Human Rights Campaign on May 6, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden committed to making so-called Equality Act legislation a “first 100 days” priority of his administration if he’s elected in November.
This isn’t the first time Biden has made known the priority he has placed on the Equality Act. Soon after winning big in the March 3 Super Tuesday Democratic presidential primaries, he released an extensive plan “to advance LGBTQ+ equality in America and around the world.”
The plan, which would require America’s institutions to “enforce [LGBT] rights,” would be harmful to religious liberty and to the rights of women, parents, and children.
The plan makes signing the Equality Act into law a key priority. The legislation passed the House of Representatives a year ago on May 17, 2019, and is one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top priorities. It would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes under the Civil Rights Act, categories that the authors of the law would not have had in mind when it passed Congress in 1964.
