Pelosi & The 1st Amendment

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Nancy Pelosi, like most good politicians, usually avoids making predictions about what will happen in elections.  Which is why what the House minority leader told late-night host Stephen Colbert two weeks ago is surprising.

“Let me say this,” Pelosi told Colbert. “Up until today, I would’ve said, ‘If the election were held today, we would win.’ … What now I’m saying is, ‘We will win.'”

Now the Democrats, as everybody knows, would like to get rid of the 2nd amendment.  And if they retake the House, undoubtedly they will try to pass legislation restricting Americans rights in connection with firearms.  An outright ban may not be in the immediate offing.  However, it is the ultimate goal of the Communist Democratic Party.

However, Pelosi made headlines, not in connection with the 2nd amendment, but, rather with the 1st.  She said that, if Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives, a top item on their legislative agenda is to pass laws banning disagreement on LGBT issues. In other words Pelosi wants to curtail Americans rights under the 1st amendment.

Of course, she did not use those words.  What she wants to do is to make “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” (SOGI) into protected classes under anti-discrimination law.  However, as pointed out in this paper, not every disagreement over SOGI items is discriminatory.  And to use SOGI laws to put the full weight of the government into persecuting people who think differently, is a very chilling thought.

One only has to look at the Colorado baker case to understand this. Here SOGI laws were used to persecute someone who has a different religious belief,  that of believing that marriage is between a man and a woman. The state wished to force him to use his artistic talents to support a viewpoint that was clearly in conflict with his conscience.

As Ryan Anderson has pointed out,

Pelosi wants to force people to think, speak and act in a certain way. She wants to use the government to make sure that people do not espouse viewpoints that are different from her political views.  In other words she wants to remake America into some kind of communist, totalitarian society.

What Pelosi and the Dems want to do is ignore the conscience of people of good will who do not to agree with the government about issues of marriage and sexuality.  It is incredible that Pelosi has already announced her intention to punish disagreement through legislation.

This is the modern Democratic Party.