Nancy Pelosi lays out Democrats’ four-point plan to advance immoral gay agenda
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By legalizing same-sex “marriage” nationwide, the U.S. judiciary
gave Democrats something they could not achieve legislatively, House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi told a press conference Thursday.
Pelosi at the same time also disclosed the party’s four-part
agenda to promote acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle across the nation.
“Legislatively, we couldn’t really succeed, but from the courts
and the rest, and public opinion, of course, in the actual courts and in the
court of public opinion, that victory has been won,” Pelosi said, referencing
last June’s Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision mandating legal
recognition of homosexual “marriage” in all 50 states.
Speaking at press conference for The
Equality Act (HR 3185),
the Democrat House Minority Leader said securing homosexual “marriage” as the
law of the land was just part of Democrats’ overall four-point plan to advance
special rights for individuals identifying as LGBT.
The Equality Act amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include
“sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes under the law,
adding them to the present ban on discrimination for race, color, religion, sex
or national origin.
Democrats are pushing for movement on the measure in response to
recent laws passed in states such as North Carolina, Mississippi and Tennessee,
protecting privacy in restroom facilities, legislation they consider
discriminatory.
Pelosi identified the first of four segments of the Democrat
plan as “hate crimes” legislation.
“Just to place where we are in context from the standpoint of
Congress, when we came into the majority we had four points,” she said, “it was
a four-legged stool of what we wanted to accomplish – to pass a fully inclusive
hate crimes legislation.”
This was was achieved through the 2009 "Matthew
Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act," expanding
existing law to include criminalization
of acts of
violence motivated by “actual or perceived gender, disability, sexual
orientation, or gender identity of any person.”
The California congresswoman further listed the Democrat
strategies of encroaching on administration of the U.S. military through repeal
of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” and stifling religious liberty in employment law
with ENDA, the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act.
Pelosi’s second leg, repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and
compelling protection of open homosexuality in the military, “would not have
happened without the president’s leadership and courage,” she stated.
Number three was establishment of homosexual “marriage.”
The fourth leg of the stool is passage of ENDA, which creates
new protected classes, threatens employers’ religious liberty and livelihoods,
and has been criticized
by the US Bishops for its
potential to punish those holding traditional views on sexuality and biology.
The Act has not been passed.
“There’s one other piece, which is ENDA, ending discrimination
in the workplace, which is really a very important piece of the agenda,” Pelosi
said, according to World Net Daily. “But as we were seeing the successes and
the momentum, especially of the marriage equality, we saw the opportunity to do
something bigger” (with The Equality Act).
Pelosi added in her remarks on the latest Democrat-proposed
legislation yesterday that some had opposed the inclusion of “transgender” in
the measure, but this opposition was rejected and the move to keep
“transgender” as a class in the Act succeeded.
The Equality Act as “so about American values,” Pelosi said.
The former House Speaker and her colleagues at the press
conference announced they have written Representative Robert Goodlatte (R-Va.),
head of the House Judiciary Committee, urging him to schedule a hearing for The
Equality Act.
