Tony Perkins Money Beg: The Equality Act Will Strip Christians Of Their Employment Rights

Tony Perkins needs a lot of money to stop the Equality Act, which he today tells supporters will strip Christians of their employment rights. Via email:

“I was wrong. I thought we had just about beaten ENDA — the dangerous Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would force Christians to employ people utterly opposed to their own values. But the Left has managed to mount a new assault on your rights and freedoms — and I have to confess, I’m astonished. Now they’ve unveiled a sort of supercharged ENDA — a bill that not only strips you of your rights regarding employment, but strips you of your rights in 25 areas of U.S. law . . . 25 areas of life! This legislation will create and enforce special privileges based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Almost every federal law that already protects on the basis of race will be retrofitted to accommodate the radical homosexual rights lobby: credit, education, employment, federal funding, housing, public educational institutions, jury service, public facilities and accommodations, and federally funded programs, to name a few.

“Any resistance in the context of employment and public accommodations you might want to offer would be futile. Even if somehow you could afford massive legal fees, your defense in court would be “dead on arrival” — because this bill strips away your right to use the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to defend yourself as an employer or provider of public services. Which means there is no legal recourse for Christian business owners. In other words, the “Equality Act” is an explicit statement that special privileges for those who participate in homosexual and transgender behavior shall henceforth trump religious rights.”

Those would be the “special privileges” that Christians have enjoyed since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.