The Human Toll of the Equality Agenda

Labels, politics, and the unchosen crusade of Christine Geiger

In today’s America of distant bureaucratic government, labels obscure as much as they reveal, and no agenda embodies this truth more than the Equality Act.

The top legislative priority of the Biden White House, the Equality Act would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include “sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation” where gender identity means “the gender-related identity, appearance, mannerisms, or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, regardless of the individual’s designated sex at birth.” It “expands the definition of public accommodations” where discrimination can’t occur and allows the Department of Justice “to intervene ... in federal court on account of sexual orientation or gender identity.”

If Democrats sweep the November elections, the Equality Act will likely be their first piece of legislation, despite warnings from both feminists and religious believers that it threatens a range of freedoms.

But, like abstract labels, abstract warnings don’t mean much until they’re concrete, which is what they’ve become in Michigan. There, an informal and formal prosecution under an Equality Act-type state law has hit a single person in ways that next year could occur across the country.

Read more at The Epoch Times.