{"id":72472,"date":"2021-05-18T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=72472"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:38:49","slug":"an-unholy-alliance-the-equality-act-and-corporate-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/an-unholy-alliance-the-equality-act-and-corporate-america","title":{"rendered":"An unholy alliance: the Equality Act and corporate America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe family has always been the cornerstone of American society,\u201d declared President Ronald Reagan, \u201cthe heart of our free democracy\u201d and \u201cthe mainstay of our national life\u2026 Our families nurture, preserve and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation for our freedoms.\u201d It was so from the beginning of the Republic\u2014\u201cThe foundations of national morality must be laid in private families,\u201d said John Adams\u2014and it remains so today. Which is why the so-called Equality Act may well be the most dangerous piece of legislation ever to be debated in Congress.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First introduced on March 13, 2019 by gay representative David Cicilline from Rhode Island, it passed the House the following May 17 but was never considered in the Senate. Meanwhile, the White House left no doubt as to where the president stood: \u201cThe Trump Administration absolutely opposes discrimination of any kind and supports the equal treatment of all; however, the House-passed bill in its current form is filled with poison pills that threaten to undermine parental and conscience rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next year candidate Joe Biden vowed that if he were elected, he would pass the Equality Act within 100 days of taking office. So it came as no surprise that on the day after Cicilline reintroduced the bill on February 18, 2021, President Biden issued a formal statement applauding the sponsors and urging legislators \u201cto swiftly pass this historic legislation\u201d\u2014which, he insisted, would confer \u201cdignity and respect\u201d as \u201ca critical step toward ensuring that America lives up to our foundational values of equality and freedom for all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such rhetoric is a distortion of the magnitude mentioned by the prophet Isaiah when he spoke of those who \u201ccall evil good, and good evil.\u201d In fact, as IOF and its partner National Organization for Marriage have repeatedly warned, if the bill\u2019s name reflected its reality, it would have to be called the Inequality Act<\/em>. As described<\/a> by Family Research Council, \u201cThe Equality Act would mandate government-imposed inequality and unfairness by requiring acceptance of a particular ideology about sexual ethics, while leaving no room for differing opinions and legitimate public debate. Simply put, the Equality Act mandates an anti-life, anti-family, and anti-faith agenda throughout federal law, and would be a disaster for all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our colleague Ryan Anderson has summarized<\/a> some of the disastrous consequences if America is subjected to the Equality Act: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t let the name fool you\u2026. Rather than finding common-sense, narrowly tailored ways to shield LGBT-identifying Americans from truly unjust discrimination, the bill would act as a sword\u2014to persecute those who don\u2019t embrace newfangled gender ideologies\u2026. The Equality Act would sacrifice the hard-won rights of women, while privileging men who identify as women. If it \u00adbecomes law, such men would have a right to spend the night in battered-women\u2019s shelters, disrobe in women\u2019s locker rooms and\u00a0compete on women\u2019s sports teams\u2014even at K-12 schools\u2026. Under the Equality Act, religious schools, adoption agencies and other charities would face federal sanction for upholding the teachings of mainstream biology and the Bible, modern \u00adgenetics and Genesis, when it comes to sex and marriage\u2026. Outrageously, the Equality Act explicitly exempts itself from the Religious Freedom Restoration Act\u2026 Medical doctors, secular and religious, whose \u00adexpert judgment is that sex-reassignment procedures are misguided would now run afoul of our civil-rights laws\u2026. [And] the act treats any refusal to offer abortion as ‘pregnancy’ discrimination. Decades of conscience protections against abortion extremism at the federal, state and local levels would be undermined. These threats to our society are just a few reasons why the Orwellian Equality Act should be rejected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

How could the government get it so wrong? It is hardly the first time such a question has been asked. Acclaimed historian Barbara Tuchman observed, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity\u2026. Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests? Why does intelligent mental process seem so often not to function? Why, to begin at the beginning, did the Trojan rulers drag that suspicious-looking wooden horse inside their walls despite every reason to suspect a Greek trick?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In the case of the Equality Act, the carefully crafted rhetoric has blinded not only government leaders but also much of corporate America. The Business Coalition for the Equality Act, led by the Human Rights Campaign, constitutes a veritable \u201cWho\u2019s who\u201d of companies, including not only such tech titans as Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Intel, but also firms as diverse as Nike, Xerox, Dow Chemical, Pfizer, Deloitte, General Mills, Sony, Nestle, Boston Celtics, Bloomberg, American Express, Bank of America, Chevron, MasterCard, Tesla, Cisco, Ebay, Denny\u2019s, Eli Lilly, Domino\u2019s, Expedia, GoDaddy, Home Depot, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase, Netflix, Kellogg, Marriott, PetSmart, Alcoa, Starbucks, Target, Citigroup, Twitter, Dell, Airbnb, Toyota, and Disney, to name but a few of the total 420 companies<\/a> whose combined revenue is some $6.8 trillion and whose employees number over 14.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a sobering testament to the seemingly irresistible allure of political correctness which American companies follow like sheep as they vie in their displays of enthusiasm. Dow Chemical says it \u201capplauds the introduction of the Equality Act.\u201d Facebook and Google support \u201cprotections\u2026 as outlined in the Equality Act.\u201d Levi Strauss \u201cis proud to support the Equality Act.\u201d Nike \u201csupports the Equality Act\u201d as \u201canother important step in the fight for equality.\u201d And on and on it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the vast resources of corporate America marshalled in support this disastrous legislation, America urgently needs the best efforts and courageous voices of all who care about preserving the family\u2014\u201cthe cornerstone of American society\u201d and \u201cthe heart of our free democracy.\u201d We can be silent no longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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