The GOP Bill Validates the Worse Fears The LGBT Community Had About Trump and Republicans

 Donald Trump (DD) holding up a bible inside the Lyons Den for any LGBT.  What anybody can say about his promises to the gay community is that he lies. He was not believed when he promised to protect the community. And people didn't vote for him because they thought he was a pious, bible following Christian but that he might make them a few bucks because up to that point about 48% of the population were not happy and would not vote for a woman for which there was no evidence she had done anything wrong, just talk about killing kids and drivinga worker to suicide, etc., etc. We know who put that out, hope you do too. "Despite Trump’s claims of being pro-LGBTI rights, the Republican leader appears to be surrounding himself with advisors who have anti-LGBTI views that include support for conversion therapy, opposition to same-sex adoption, and the belief the sexual orientation is a choice" (Eikon)  Trump knows he didn't win because of the LGBT community but the Evangelical community was there for him. Since he was elected every top post is gone to very anti-gay people. From the Vice President on down. All these hs a fix but only if people of decency take the country away from these indecent people, because religion never made anyone decent. That is something you either have or do not. Adam

 

When Donald Trump was elected in 2016, many individuals in the LGBT community were concerned that his victory would empower anti-LGBT bigots to codify their prejudices into law.

That fear is now in danger of being realized. 

On Thursday Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, introduced the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), a bill that, if passed, would make it legal for private individuals and businesses to discriminate against LGBT Americans by citing religious objections. It's a bill that was first introduced in 2015 and which both Lee and Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, said they planned on reintroducing as far back as early last year.

The proposed law stipulates that the Federal Government cannot penalize through "discriminatory action" any individual who "speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction that marriage is or should be recognized as a union of one man and one woman, or two individuals as recognized under Federal law, or those sexual relations outside marriage are improper."

Critics of this law are concerned that, if passed, it would encourage businesses and other for-profit institutions to discriminate against the LGBT community or even heterosexual couples that have sex out of wedlock. 

This isn't the first time since the start of 2018 that Republicans have tried to push through laws which would make it easier to persecute sexual minorities.

The PROSPER Act, which seeks to reauthorize and amend the 1965 Higher Education Act, included a provision that would specifically tailor FADA to allow institutions of higher education to engage in anti-LGBT discrimination, according to NBC News.