Leftists’ ‘gender identity’ agenda deals blow to constitutional right
By Bob Unruh
It’s not been much publicized, but the actions of the state legislature in Minnesota have resulted in what essentially is the “end of religious liberty” in the state.
It is Allen Quist, a former three-term Minnesota state lawmaker and retired professor at Bethany Lutheran College who has written at The Federalist that already one faith-based school is being targeted by a complaint from the state.
The issue is that lawmakers and the governor schemed to add a so-called human right, “gender identity” to the state’s Human Rights Act.
And they included no provision for exemptions for religious people or groups, “demonstrating their intent to deny religious freedom to Minnesota citizens, churches, and schools and to engage in persecuting Christians and some other religious bodies.”
He pointedly noted, “If the state can tell churches and schools what they cannot say or do on ‘gender identity,’ then it can tell churches and schools what they cannot say or do on other subjects too.”
A legislator tried multiple times to correct “this violation of First Amendment rights,” only to be rebuffed by leftists in power in the state.