The fight in Houston over a proposed $5,000 fine against anyone who blocks transgendered men from a women’s bathroom has gone national, with an arm of the Washington-based Family Research Council assailing it as the next liberal shot against religious liberty.
In an ad beginning to run in Houston, the Faith Family Freedom Fund, the Super PAC connected to Family Research Council Action, said, “If Proposition 1 passes, you could be fined up to five thousand dollars for declining to participate in a same-sex wedding or simply objecting to a man using a woman’s bathroom.” It adds, “Don’t allow the government to flush your money or religious liberties.”
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins added, “Proposition 1 is about a lot more than even bathrooms. It’s about criminalizing religious liberty. The ordinance also gives the government new grounds to impose punishing fines on bakers, florists, planners, musicians and others who refuse to yield their religious beliefs to this new morality.”
Proposition 1, on the November ballot, is pushed as a recognition of those men and women who live and work as members of the other sex. Those who block a transgendered man or women from entering a women’s or men’s room, including parents of small children, will be subject ot a $5,000 fine.
Author David Limbaugh has also come out swinging against it. In a Washington Examiner column, he wrote, “The major driver of this law was Houston’s lesbian mayor, Annise Parker. Have we just become completely insane in this country? Is nothing sacred anymore? Is there no limit on the demands of radical leftists to force the rest of us to normalize their bizarre behavior?”
Below is the ad text:
If Proposition 1 passes, you could be fined up to five thousand dollars for declining to participate in a same-sex wedding or simply objecting to a man using a woman’s bathroom. Five thousand dollars… down the tubes.
Remember last year? The Mayor illegally disenfranchised voters and demanded Houston pastors turn over their sermons and private communications to government lawyers…The struggle is not over.
Stand up… not only for the freedom to believe… but to live out your beliefs. Don’t allow the government to flush your money or religious liberties. Vote now… and vote “No” on Proposition 1.
No person should be punished by the government because of their beliefs.
Faith Family Freedom Fund is responsible for the content of this political advertising.
Vote now… and vote “No” on Proposition 1. No person should be punished by the government because of their beliefs.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
