Rep. Chip RoyConservatives Charles (Chip) Eugene RoyHouse are backing efforts to revive brands. Lawmakers discuss the gun ban in the Natural Resources Committee room. Rep Ron Wright dies after hiring COVID-19 MORE (R-Texas) on Thursday promised to oppose the Equality Act in court just before a House vote on the legislation, saying it would undermine religious freedom.
The Equality Act would expand the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act, adding protections for LGBTQ Americans.
Roy, alongside members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus in front of the US Capitol, said the legislation was “trampling on the rights of the American people in the name of equality in the false name of equality”
“This is a government using its power to tell us to bow to the will of a cultural elite in this city that wants to tell us what to believe. We are not going to do that.”
Rep Roy’s full comments today @FreedomCaucus press conference on the Equality Law: pic.twitter.com/RPIbzdSMwv
– Press office of Representative Chip Roy (@RepChipRoy) February 25, 2021
Roy argued that the legislation would override the rights of people who, for religious reasons, do not agree with extending protection to American gays and transgender people.
He and others who oppose the legislation in particular, criticized the law’s ban on federally funded facilities from preventing transgender people in bathrooms that are in line with their gender identity.
“We will continue to fight in the courts and beyond,” said Roy.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.), Who was present with Roy in his speech, spoke out strongly against the Equality Act, engaging in a growing rivalry with Rep. Marie Newman (D-Ill.) , Whose daughter is transgender. Newman placed an equality flag for transgender people outside his office on Wednesday, to which Greene responded by placing a sign outside his office that said, “There are TWO genders: MAN AND WOMAN. ‘Trust Science!”
The bill would prohibit discrimination based on “sex, sexual orientation and gender identity” in public spaces, such as facilities that receive federal funding, as well as places of education and employment.
The bill would also prohibit individuals from being blocked in shared spaces that align with their gender identity, such as bathrooms and changing rooms.
President biden
Joe BidenKlain on Manchin’s objection to Neera Tanden: He “does not answer us at the White House”. Senators have not given a deadline for the removal of the National Guard, near the Capitol Night defense: new president of the Senate Armed Services talks about candidate for Pentagon policy, Afghanistan, more | Biden reads report on Khashoggi’s murder | Austin highlights vaccine safety in new video MORE supported the bill, urging Congress last week to pass it quickly.
“Each person must be treated with dignity and respect, and this bill represents a critical step in ensuring that America lives up to our fundamental values of equality and freedom for all,” said Biden in a statement.