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Help protect religious liberty from ENDA
 

About the Petition:


Focus Action Federal Policy Analyst Ashley Horne delivering petitions to Sen. Jim DeMint

Since the 2006 election, Congress has been working to pass legislation that would threaten employers' and employees' freedom of religion, speech and association. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) elevates homosexuality and transgenderism to a protected status in employment, which unfairly places burdens on employers' hiring decisions and on the ability of employees to share their beliefs about God's design for human sexuality, marriage and family.

If passed, ENDA would grant the same protections to sexual behavior and "gender expression" that is currently granted to race, creed, color and national origin – which would have dramatic and far-reaching effects on the workplace, perhaps even for faith-based organizations like Focus on the Family Action. ENDA would:

  • Violate employers' and employees' constitutional freedoms of religion, speech and association;
  • Place unfair burdens on employers to know about their employees' and applicants' sexual self-identity and behavior and take that into consideration in employment decisions;
  • Require employers, perhaps even faith-based organizations like Focus Action, to hire people who self-identify as homosexual or transgender or others who are hostile to the organization's deeply held religious beliefs;
  • Impact employees' freedom to hold and share beliefs about God's design for human sexuality that do not embrace homosexuality and transgenderism; and
  • Force employers to spend money defending against lawsuits if employees allege discrimination.
Please join us in urging Congress to support our freedoms by opposing ENDA when it comes to a vote, possibly before the upcoming Memorial Day holiday. After you've signed our ENDA petition, please look for the "forward-to-a-friend" e-mail you can forward to your family and friends to ask them to join you. Our members of Congress need to hear from all of us! Thank you for taking the time to make your voice heard in support of our precious freedoms of religion, speech and association.


The Petition States:

Dear Members of Congress,

As an American, I urge you to protect my freedoms of religion, speech and association by opposing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. This bill will severely threaten my deeply held religious beliefs.

Sexual self-identity and behavior should not be elevated to the same protected status as that currently given on the basis of race, creed, color or national origin

Our founding documents guarantee the rights to freedom of speech, religion and association. ENDA directly attacks those rights. As my elected representative, I call upon you to do all in your power to protect our constitutional freedoms by opposing ENDA.


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