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Republican Led House Opens With Morning Bible Reading About Killing Homosexuals
June 16, 2016 by Richard Zombeck 5 Comments
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The Republican led House of Representatives opened Thursday’s session, which included an anti-discrimination bill for LGBT Americans, with a verse from the Bible that condemns homosexuals to death.
Shortly after a gunman opened fire in an Orlando gay nightclub killing 49 people and injuring more, Republicans came out from under their rocks to offer thoughts and prayers to the victims. It was painfully evident that nearly none of them mentioned the LGBT community in any of their statements.
As “The New Civil Rights Movement” writes on their website:
Almost no national Republican lawmaker, as far as NCRM has found, could bring themselves to offer condolences to the LGBT community, which was the target of the nation’s deadliest mass shooting and terror attack since 9/11. A terrorist shot to death 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, and injured another 53 people, very early Sunday morning.
They’ve got a slew of tweets and statements that were issued that corroborate that.
GOP House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions was one and his thoughts and prayers are most notable because of what happened only a couple of days later.
Here’s Rep. Sessions’ Tweet:
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My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Orlando and everyone who was impacted by last night's senseless attack.
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He made a similar post on Facebook, and his posts are notable because Rep. Sessions is one of the most anti-LGBT and most conservative members of Congress. “He has repeatedly and without exception voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, voted to ban gay adoptions, voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) which included LGBT protections, voted against prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation, voted to “protect” anti-same-sex marriage opinions as free speech, and voted to make a state’s definition of marriage supersede federal law on same-sex marriage,” according to The New Civil Rights Movement.
So it makes sense that late Tuesday night, just two days after a massacre that decimated the LGBT community, Sessions would block a bill that would have codified into law President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive orders banning discrimination against LGBT workers by federal contractors — protections that affect about 20 percent of the nation’s workforce.
This was the third time Republicans stopped the LGBT protections bill; the lead sponsor of the bill, Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, is gay.
The first time, the bill passed when the clock ran out, but GOP Leadership colluded by personally speaking with several other Republicans, convincing seven of them to change their “yea” vote to “nay,” while holding open the clock. The bill failed. House GOP Leadership allowed them to do it electronically from their seats in an attempt to hide their names rather than have them walk up to the clerk to make the change, as is customary in the House.
It gets worse. It actually gets worse than a Republican Congress voting down a bill that would protect the LGBT community from discrimination. According to “Roll Call,” Georgia Rep. Rick W. Allen led the opening prayer before the vote last month by reading from Romans 1:18-32, and Revelations 22:18-19, a passage from the Bible that refers to homosexuality and the penalty for homosexual behavior.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
So, there’s the gay part. Here’s the rest:
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
And here’s Rick Allen just the other day: “My wife and I, our prayers are with those family and friends,” he said in an interview. “The members of Congress who represent that district are just devastated.”
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Allen said that he read the verse because he believes a nation founded on Judeo-Christian values needs to come together, and he does not condemn anyone. “I just simply shared that, in what’s supposed to be a private setting with fellow members of my conference, just like I would in a Bible study,” he said.
Yeah, because the House of Representatives – also called “The Peoples” House — is a lot like Bible study.
Got that? That’s what your tax dollars are going to. Elected officials, in mere days following a brutal slaying of a community that has been chastised, vilified and dehumanized by the likes of these hate bags for centuries, voted to deny them the basic civil right of not suffering discrimination, and in a previous session before voting on the same bill opened with a morning prayer about killing homosexuals.
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