I just voted against the “Respect for Marriage Act” that is supposed to protect gay marriage without creating risks to religious freedom and religious institutions.
Nothing in the bill adds new protections for gay marriage, but it does, in my view, create great uncertainty about religious liberty and institutions who oppose gay marriage.
The refusal to adopt Senator Lee’s amendment, which clearly protects religious institutions from reprisals, says all I need to know about the potential risks of the bill to religious liberty.
@LindseyGrahamSC Why do you need the provision when you have the 1st amendment tho? I mean if we all focused on private property rights, then we wouldn’t have any of these issues
@LindseyGrahamSC it's all about the senator, not the bill
@LindseyGrahamSC Can you tell us more about how gay marriage creates "great uncertainty about religious liberty and institutions"? First amendment prohibits government to pass law based on religious beliefs.
@LindseyGrahamSC Heard of Separation of Church and State. If you don’t believe that , then Let’s end of Tax Exemptions for Churches .
@LindseyGrahamSC I'm Catholic and I think that most of the priests are gay just saying that they all the other side of them that we the people don't see
@LindseyGrahamSC Thank you protecting and standing for religious freedom, despite persecution from the world.
@LindseyGrahamSC Sooooo the Bill doesn’t protect the church from discriminating against LGBT thus exposing the “religious” institution to potential litigation Nice job. This is why you have no red wave.