We want God, not the Equality Act By John Horvat II for Life Site News
The core of the Equality Act is found in this rejection of God’s will.
The debate over the Equality Act is much more than a discussion on “discrimination” or “rights.” If enacted, it will mark the nation’s formal and symbolic break with the will of God. Such a conclusion comes from an inadvertent remark during the Congressional debate over the nefarious bill.
This religious aspect of the proposed legislation trumps all others. Many rightly oppose the measure because they say it will create a right to abortion, facilitate its funding and impose “transgender” tyranny upon the nation’s workplaces, churches, bathrooms and schools. It will codify “gender” ideology into the law of the land. All these are legitimate and substantial reasons to oppose the bill.
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However, the most powerful reason for being vehemently against it is that it represents the severing of America’s relationship with God. In Congressional hearings about the act, Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler declared that whatever may oppose the will of God is of no concern for Congress. This is tantamount to saying that America should exist outside of God’s will, that it should be completely indifferent to His Divine Law.
This declaration should cause great concern and grief for the nation. America’s ties to God are her most precious possession. The blatant contempt for this relationship cannot fail to have drastic consequences. It would mark a disastrous turning point.
A rejection of God’s will
Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) triggered the denial in remarks he made on the House floor about God’s intent in creation. Would that in their official statement on the Equality Act, the nation’s Catholic bishops had shown the courage of this congressman! Rep. Steube went straight to the core of the problem: “When men or women claim to be able to choose their own sexual identity, they are making a statement that God did not know what he was doing when he created them.”
“The gender confusion that exists in our culture today is a clear rejection of God’s good design,” he continued. “Whenever a nation’s laws no longer reflect the standards of God, that nation is in rebellion against him and will inevitably bear the consequences. We are seeing the consequences of rejecting God here in our country today.”
As chairman of the hearings, Congressman Nadler’s brutal reply was that “[w]hat any religious tradition describes as God’s will is no concern of this Congress.”
