COLUMBUS — Voter frustration may be reaching a boiling point with the Equality Act aided by House Democrats passing last week. Along with the Fairness Act on debate in Ohio, it may just turn up the heat even more.
Barry Sheets, Executive Director of the Institute for Principled Policy, based in Gallipolis, Ohio says most Ohioans oppose the Equality Act and the Ohio Fairness Act.
Executive Director of Institute for Principled Policy
“The Ohio Fairness Act (Senate Bill 11) mirrors the Equality Act which is on the federal level. Both bills create the same hostile environment towards religious freedom and mandate how people should think. An un-elected bureaucracy, the Civil Rights Commission, would act as a theology board leveling punishment on individuals and institutions who do not comply to their arbitrary re-definitions of gender.”
Sheets believes this intolerance by the Democrat Party is evident when multiple times nominees are attacked by Senate Democrats and told they are not qualified to fill federal government posts because of their Christian beliefs. Ohio Senate President Larry Obhof publicly points out this is a violation of Article 6 Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution.
‘The Democrat Party is alienating their traditional base. In 1993, President Bill Clinton and nearly every Democrat and Republican unanimously passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Today there is no comparison, the Democratic Party is hostile to religious freedom. It is a huge problem that is driving their party off the cliff.”
‘The Democrat Party is alienating their traditional base. In 1993, President Bill Clinton and nearly every Democrat and Republican unanimously passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Today there is no comparison, the Democratic Party is hostile to religious freedom. It is a huge problem that is driving their party off the cliff.”
Barry Sheets, Institute of Principled Policy
“In Ohio, all ten Republicans present opposed the Equality Act and all three Democrats voted in favor. Three did not vote. Clearly this vote reflects how the majority of Ohioans feel.”
According to 2018 Gallup poll data, liberals outnumber conservatives in only six states, dropping more than thirty percent.
Democratic strategists are observing this conservative trend in Ohio. As a result, a top Democrat super PAC announced this Spring that it has removed Ohio from its list of target swing states.
Sheets believes the real problem that lies with the Democratic party is not in the party’s strategy but rather its policy and party platform.
“The Equality Act and Ohio Fairness Act are perfect examples of how the Democratic Party by choosing elitism, has distanced itself from voters,” says Sheets. “Both codify a small group of persons with sexual dysfunction into a place of preeminence, creating “LGBT privilege” in nearly every aspect of society.
“LGBT persons presently have no traits of a discriminated class of people. It has political elites supporting it, carries considerable political clout, has no economic disenfranchisement, and has no ongoing systemic discrimination.
According to Sheets, the most vulnerable in society will become even less protected under the Equality Act and Ohio Fairness Act.
“Domestic abuse shelters have the expectation of an atmosphere of security where there is separation of genders. If these two bills become law, all a predatory ex-boyfriend has to do is dress as a girl and come to the shelter to continue harassing his victim. Local communities will be forced to allow a male LGBT teachers to supervise girl’s locker rooms and restrooms. This shift would be in a setting where there already is a history of illicit behavior between teachers and students.”
Barry Sheets adds, “There is an identity crisis and a lack of moral cohesion in the Democratic Party. When the party is supporting infanticide forty-four different times as of last week, and when several Democrat Representatives are publicly speaking of their disdain for Israel, there could be no starker contrast between the two parties and their platforms then now.”
For a better understanding of the contrast between the Democratic and Republican Party platforms view the video below.
