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Urgent Alert:
Sen. Todd Young Gives Joe Biden a Big Win!
One week after Indiana Senator Todd Young (R) overwhelmingly won his bid for reelection, he immediately sided with President Joe Biden, Senators Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, and the radical left to attack religious Hoosiers and faith-based institutions.
Senator Young was among a dozen liberal Republicans who voted for the unnecessary and misnamed, Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA). The bill should be called the disrespect for marriage act because it does not respect the First Amendment freedoms that make America great.
This legislation is a reward to the LGBTQ activists who are trying to undermine traditional values and indoctrinate children in all aspects of our culture. The Respect for Marriage Act codifies same-sex marriage even though the US Supreme Court ruled on this, years ago. People are free to live as they choose, but this bill uses the power of the federal government to take sides in cultural and moral debates. It could punish those who understand that men and women are uniquely different, and both offer important aspects to the family. Whatever two men may be, they are not a mom and a dad. Children do best with a married mother and father.
This bill is not about who can marry. It is about who can peaceably live out their faith without fear of our government.
The Respect for Marriage Act is undeniably dangerous. An amendment was added that admits this. It pretends to protect the rights of conscience and religious freedom. This was an admission of the problems this bill can cause, but it is little more than window dressing on bad policy.
Senator Young has ignored concerns from legal experts in this field such as Alliance Defending Freedom, the Liberty Counsel, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Coalition for Jewish Values, and numerous policy experts like the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, the Ethics and Policy Center, the Religious Freedom Institute, Focus on the Family and many more.
(I have over a dozen legal reviews and policy papers detailing the dangers of this bill and the inadequacies of the faux religious freedom section. Links to items from the groups I've listed here are attached. Simply click on the organization's name in blue.)
(I have over a dozen legal reviews and policy papers detailing the dangers of this bill and the inadequacies of the faux religious freedom section. Links to items from the groups I've listed here are attached. Simply click on the organization's name in blue.)
Incidentally, Senator Young supported the Respect for Marriage Act even before the religious freedom section was added. If you contacted his office when we began warning of this legislation months ago, his official response made this obvious. He now claims that this amendment “fixed” the bill he supported when it was broken.
It is still broken.
Here is just one example. As written, this legislation could remove the tax status of or punish a private school that holds to religious teachings as a condition of employment. (Remember those 87,000 new IRS agents?) It could also allow a state or a judge looking at the RFMA to punish a religious charity for similar reasons.
The RFMA will pour gasoline on the fire of “woke-ism” and transgender indoctrination in schools that has so many Hoosier parents outraged.
As the Vice President of Domestic Policy for the Heritage Foundation warned: “This bill provides no benefit or protection that same-sex couples don’t already have. All this bill does is target people of faith who don’t support woke ideology.”
Senator Young made sure that millions of Hoosiers knew he was a Marine in his many campaign ads. People assume that a Marine will fight for freedom and defend the constitution. This is not what he is doing now with this legislation. He is betraying hundreds of thousands of Hoosier voters who assumed that he would protect their rights of speech, association, conscience, and faith when they voted for him two weeks ago.
Call to Action:
The RFMA will be voted on again very soon. Please contact Senator Young and ask him to defend freedom by voting against the RFMA.
Senator Mike Lee of Utah, who is a legal expert in his own right, has an amendment that does protect religious freedom and rights of conscience, but will Senator Young support it? At the very least, if Senator Young is so adamant to side with the DC swamp again, he could support the Lee amendment.
1) Call Senator Young’s office and ask him to change his support for this bill.
317-226-6700 – Indianapolis
812-542-4820 – New Albany
202-224-5623 – Washington, DC
2) Email Senator Young’s office too.
3) Pray that Senator Young will have a change of heart on this unnecessary and dangerous legislation. Pray that the 1st Amendment will be respected and the RFMA will fail.