The Democrat party has spent years trying to pass legislation amending the Civil Rights Act. When I say years, I am speaking about a span of almost 50 years.
The Equality Act was first proposed in the 1970s and the House of Representatives has finally passed it. It will now go before the Senate.
The primary goal of the Equality Act is to promote LGBTQ rights and to afford equal protections to the members of this community.
What strikes me – and I hope you will read the bill for yourself – is how many times the H.R. 5 text equates women and LGBTQ people. In almost every line of the bill – especially where they propose anti-discrimination laws – you will find a direct correlation being made between women and the LGBTQ group.
My question is pretty simple and no one seems to be asking it: are we really saying that women’s rights should be no different than what are afforded to the people in Gay Pride parades?
Do we really believe that there is no obvious difference in the protection women deserve and the protection that transgenders deserve?
To be clear, the issue is not just women’s sports, as our politicians keep talking about: the issue is the demotion of women in our society.
There can be no doubt that there have been injustices in all societies. There can also be no doubt that women have been on the receiving end before. My contention is that they are currently on the receiving end again.
The Equality Act is an attack on the created order – and particularly, the dignity of women. There is simply nothing noble about saying that biological women deserve no more legal protection than a biological man who is identifying as a woman. In fact, the very thought will eliminate any protection that a woman can receive in the first place. It will do this by necessity because the trans movement requires the elimination of gender.
Discrimination is often used to speak of hatred or prejudice in a bigoted sense. It can also be used to mean the act of discernment. But to fix the issue, we should begin by using our discretion to say that women have a natural dignity in the created order of the world. They have been given the high honor of being wives, mothers and co-laborers.
The Equality Act is not about equality. The reality of the matter is that there is no equal to a righteous woman because they are unique in God’s economy.
That is the conservative message we need.
Jeremy Wiggins writes a bi-weekly column for The Graham Star.