Civil Rights Act of 1964 and H.R. 5 vs. The Declaration of Independence

The 116th Congress is considering H.R. 5, a Democrat monstrosity of so-called “law” (237 Democrat and only 3 Republican co-sponsors).

This “law” doesn’t deserve the name of law because it perverts the law principle enunciated in our Declaration of Independence.

H.R. 5 expands the 1964 Civil Rights Act into new areas of human relations in America. The 1964 Act already contains very bad law enough by outlawing what should be private rights in employment. It prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of an “individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.”

H.R. 5 amends the 1964 law “To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.” The “Findings” section of H.R. 5 is simply awful. LGBT activists, who need to be distinguished from good people who are LGBT, apparently wrote parts of it. Other parts have such incredible language as this: “For example, discrimination against a married same-sex couple could be based on the sex stereotype that marriage should only be between heterosexual couples, the sexual orientation of the two individuals in the couple, or both.” Since when is marriage between a man and a woman a “sex stereotype”?

Basic principles are in play here. Does a human being, any human being, have a right to choose with whom to associate, or is this freedom to be disallowed by legislated “law”? May a human being make a contract with some other human beings and not with others, or is this freedom to be disallowed by Act of Congress?

The answer given by H.R. 5 and the Act it amends is that these basic rights and freedoms are subject to control, curtailment and even destruction by Congress. This has been held to be consistent with the Constitution. Yet it clearly demolishes the principle of rights in the Declaration of Independence.

Once having made “laws” that eliminate such basic freedoms and gotten away with them, what new areas of human relations become targets of the government totalitarians?

H.R. 5 is called the Equality Act. This goes to show how badly Americans are being led astray by single-minded devotion to a false principle, that is, a misunderstood, misread, misinterpreted and bowdlerized principle. The Declaration of Independence reads “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

This says that we are born equal by virtue of our equal possession of rights to live, to be free and to pursue our lives and happiness. It doesn’t say or imply that our government may mold our pursuits or tell us whom we may associate with in employment or in any other context. It doesn’t say that our government exists to create equality of opportunity or equality of service or equality of hiring or equality of our thoughts or preferences, our clothing, our income, our religious views, or how others treat us. It says that our Creator has already seen to equality in the sense of giving us life and endowing us with certain Rights.

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10:04 am on March 22, 2019