Thursday, July 16, 2020

Two Sets Of Laws

Today the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is supposed to release the report from the Commission on Unalienable Right.
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo is set to release a “human rights report” on Thursday, July 16, which critics fear will attack abortion, LGBT+ rights and same-sex marriage.
Pink News UK
By Lily Wakefield 
July 15, 2020


The Commission on Unalienable Rights, supposedly based on “natural law”, was formed by the Trump administration in July, 2019, to undercut the US government’s existing human rights laws, but one year on it is yet to release its first report.

Pompeo claimed that the commission was necessary because “international institutions designed and built to protect human rights have drifted from their original mission”, and said it would answer questions like: “How do we know or how do we determine whether that claim that this or that is a human right, is it true, and therefore, ought it to be honoured?”

The group is dominated by officials with anti-LGBT+ views, with seven of the ten members having expressed these views publicly, and when the commission was announced, anti-LGBT+ activist Brian Brown said it was an “extraordinary opening” to reverse LGBT+ equality.
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Democratic representatives Jamie Raskin and Joaquin Castro previously spoke out about their fears that the commission and its report could be used to roll back LGBT+ and abortion rights.
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However, the commission has been secretive about the content of its meetings so far, and activists note that until its release on Thursday, its impact will remain a mystery.
What I see it doing is to create two sets of laws. That by claiming “religious freedom” they can ignore a law and they can discriminate against anyone just by claiming that the law violates their religious beliefs.

I see this spreading far beyond LGBTQ+ and abortion laws to segregation laws, I can see Jim Crow laws coming back. I see landlords refusing to rent to unmarried couples or interracial couples. I see bakeries refusing to make cakes for bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah. I see businesses refusing to wait on Muslims.

I see this committee creating a divide in the law and bring division between us… this is not a good commission, its purpose is to place “Christians” above the law and have a separate laws for them. 

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