Snopes Picks on Franklin Graham Letter on Churches and the So-Called 'Equality Act'

MRC News Busters ^ | 03/07/2021 | Tim Graham

[SeekAndFind]

Citing the usual (liberal) curiosity of their readers, Dan McGuill of Snopes picked on a recent Franklin Graham letter on the so-called "Equality Act" and how it infringes on the independence of churches, now defined as "public accommodations" like a restaurant or hotel.

McGuill ruled Graham's letter was a "Mixture" of truth and falsehoods. Here's what was apparently "false."

However, the Equality Act would not as Graham's letter asserts neutralize an existing exemption in federal law that allows religious organizations to discriminate in favor of employees of the same religious faith or religious values; directly cause religious colleges to lose their accreditation (as opposed to jeopardizing their access to federal assistance); or force business owners and others to change their personal beliefs and attitudes regarding sexual orientation and gender identity (as opposed to their behavior).

What does that mean? How are religious Americans supposed to separate their beliefs from their behavior? McGuill elaborated:

While the Equality Act does not list churches among public accommodations, it does stipulate that an establishment subject to the non-discrimination laws in question is any individual or entity “whose operations affect commerce and who is a provider of a good, service, or program.” This would clearly appear to apply to churches that lease or make available buildings for events and functions....

A restaurant owner might personally hold intensely bigoted and negative views about LGBTQ people, but would uphold the law once the owner served, seated, and charged a same-sex couple in the same way as everyone else."

The authors of this law believe, as Snopes suggests, that the Bible's view of "LGBTQ" is automatically "intensely bigoted and negative." The invocation of God's intentions for humanity is just a sorry excuse for vicious discrimination. Therefore, "religious freedom" is put in scare quotes.

Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins summarized how Christian conservatives view this: 

Unfortunately, most Snopes readers probably didn't bother to scroll past the "mixed" rating on Graham's alert, or else they would have seen that the site confirmed more facts about the bill than it denied. That includes the truth about treating schools, churches, and health care groups as "public accommodations" that have to accept the government's beliefs and mandates about sexual orientation and gender identity. Snopes also agreed that the bill would force girls and women to welcome biological males in their sports, locker rooms, women's shelters, women's prisons. It will strip health care workers, doctors, nurses, and others from their conscience rights on gender surgeries and abortions. And yes, the site admitted, it will force teachers and students to "publicly pretend that a biological male is female."

The actual text of H.R. 5 makes it quite clear that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act -- the most robust protection for Americans' religious freedom rights -- would be meaningless against any lawsuit on those grounds. Specifically, it says, "The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 shall not provide a claim concerning, or a defense to a claim under, a covered title, or provide a basis for challenging the application or enforcement of a covered title."

Perkins concluded: "Joe Biden and his army of extremists have made it their goal to demand conformity on LGBT issues from everyone. And it will only be a matter of time before every American in every profession has a choice between their jobs or organizations and their beliefs."

[richardtavor]

Please don’t use snopes. Let the liberals believe their own lies.

[Starcitizen]

Follow the money. Betting most if the fact-check sites have funding from
Soros or the Chinese Communist Party or both.

[captmar-vell]

Snopes has been shown for years now to be a joke, I didnt think even leftists used them as their tool anymore,

“Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.” Matthew 5:11

Persecution of believers is ramping up everywhere, if your a believer it will soon appear on your doorstep,

[robel]

Christianity is an obstacle to the Left and Globalists. They are proceeding similar to the Chinese, religion is ok as long as it’s the state sanctioned version, which bears no relation to Christianity at all.

[EC Washington]

Snoopes is a cat women and her ex husband making up crap while living in their basement.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article SeekAndFind. As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"Snopes Picks on Franklin Graham Letter on Churches and the So-Called 'Equality Act'"

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Regarding the unconstitutional (imo) Equality Act, Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the corrupt, Democratic-controlled feds the specific power to make laws protecting against sex-related discrimination outside the scope of voting rights issues, evidenced by the 19th Amendment.

• "19th Amendment:

  The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

  Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added]."

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

So the so-called Equality Act, like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its titles imo, is just another example of unconstitutional federal government overreach that many federal lawmakers should lose their jobs for under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for supporting it imo.

"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [emphasis added], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

[SunkenCiv]

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[mosesdapoet]

IN THE RACE FOR HOUSE SEATS EVERYONE RUNNING UNDER THE DEMON-O-CRAT LABEL VOTED FOR THESE TWO ISSUES
ABORTION FUNDING SUPPORT AND THIS. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN ISSUE USED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES BUT WAS NOT

FORCE Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports...Any Dem congressman who didn’t support this got kicked out by holding their primary in remapped districts.This effort by those in control of the demo party shpould have been used to demonstrate where that party is coming from. Why weren’t those votes an issue in this 2020 campaign by the Republicans ? Not just where this occurred but nationally?

.. Democratic candidate for America’s Vice President California and likely presidential replacement Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would that would force funding public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams.

In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3873820/posts
.Also did this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3877896/posts and this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3880192/posts

.. HERE’S HOW THEY TREATED CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WHO DONT SUPPORT FUNDING STUFF LIKE THIS

.. And why there is no such thing as a Conservative Dem in Congress An example is Illinois 3rd district
..
Todays Democrats weren’t happy with this father William O Lipinski then sucessor son Daniel also votes against abortion and then be the only congressional democrat to vote NO on allowing men to to call themselves a women and compete with women in college sports. To stop this the demoncrats decided to remap his district of areas which supported him for the 2020 primary.

[mosesdapoet]

IN THE RACE FOR HOUSE SEATS EVERYONE RUNNING UNDER THE DEMON-O-CRAT LABEL VOTED FOR THESE TWO ISSUES
ABORTION FUNDING SUPPORT AND THIS. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN ISSUE USED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES BUT WAS NOT

FORCE Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports...Any Dem congressman who didn’t support this got kicked out by holding their primary in remapped districts.This effort by those in control of the demo party shpould have been used to demonstrate where that party is coming from. Why weren’t those votes an issue in this 2020 campaign by the Republicans ? Not just where this occurred but nationally?

.. Democratic candidate for America’s Vice President California and likely presidential replacement Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would that would force funding public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams.

In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3873820/posts
.Also did this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3877896/posts and this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3880192/posts

.. HERE’S HOW THEY TREATED CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WHO DONT SUPPORT FUNDING STUFF LIKE THIS

.. And why there is no such thing as a Conservative Dem in Congress An example is Illinois 3rd district
..
Todays Democrats weren’t happy with this father William O Lipinski then sucessor son Daniel also votes against abortion and then be the only congressional democrat to vote NO on allowing men to to call themselves a women and compete with women in college sports. To stop this the demoncrats decided to remap his district of areas which supported him for the 2020 primary.

[mosesdapoet]

IN THE RACE FOR HOUSE SEATS EVERYONE RUNNING UNDER THE DEMON-O-CRAT LABEL VOTED FOR THESE TWO ISSUES
ABORTION FUNDING SUPPORT AND THIS. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN ISSUE USED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES BUT WAS NOT

FORCE Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports...Any Dem congressman who didn’t support this got kicked out by holding their primary in remapped districts.This effort by those in control of the demo party shpould have been used to demonstrate where that party is coming from. Why weren’t those votes an issue in this 2020 campaign by the Republicans ? Not just where this occurred but nationally?

.. Democratic candidate for America’s Vice President California and likely presidential replacement Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would that would force funding public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams.

In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3873820/posts
.Also did this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3877896/posts and this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3880192/posts

.. HERE’S HOW THEY TREATED CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WHO DONT SUPPORT FUNDING STUFF LIKE THIS

.. And why there is no such thing as a Conservative Dem in Congress An example is Illinois 3rd district
..
Todays Democrats weren’t happy with this father William O Lipinski then sucessor son Daniel also votes against abortion and then be the only congressional democrat to vote NO on allowing men to to call themselves a women and compete with women in college sports. To stop this the demoncrats decided to remap his district of areas which supported him for the 2020 primary.

[BTerclinger]

Snopes as usual is wrong/lying.

Here's a PDF of the text of the bill.

Here's the Heritage Foundation exposing many myths about the bill.

Here's the Senate contact website where every sane American (ESPECIALLY WOMEN) needs to go to contact their Senators and tell them NOT TO VOTE FOR THIS INSANITY.

[BTerclinger]

Here's the Senate contact website where every sane American (ESPECIALLY WOMEN) needs to go to contact their Senators and tell them NOT TO VOTE FOR THIS INSANITY.

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[VideoDoctor]

Snopes is a source of COMPLETE BULL$HIT.

[SaveFerris]

I said years ago the Democrats had become the party of the spirit of antichrist.

Some didn’t believe me. Yet they prove it every week, if not every day.

[FRinCanada2]

Index

[SkyDancer]

The inmates have taken over the asylum.

[captmar-vell]

Agreed, but there are very few Republican leaders that aren’t also,

We’re seeing things in the last few years that most would not have believed in 1995

[SaveFerris]

Yep

[SaveFerris]

We’re seeing stuff I wouldn’t have believed in early 2005

Not until the 7-years start which of course they haven’t