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Anything less than a frank debate on these issues will hasten a government which races to the bottom, abandoning liberty and limited government for inescapable, tyrannical “equality"

The INEquality Act: How We Got Here, and What We Do About It



The INEquality Act: How We Got Here, and What We Do About ItFor decades, United States Congressmen have become experts at false advertising in their legislative endeavors. The “No Child Left Behind” Act of 2001 left many children behind. Government fiat to fix education through regulatory reign would never balance or phase out achievement gaps. Schooling by standardized testing does not increase or improve learning, but certainly increased the budgets of government-run schools and the bank accounts of scholastic education firms and researchers. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? “If you like your doctor, your insurance plan, your health, etc., you can keep them.” Right? Need I say more: Congress loves to label bills to appeal—and deceive—the voting masses.
Like a lot of legislation out of Congress, “The Equality Act”, which passed the House with all Democrats and nominal Republican support on May 16th, 2019, is about anything but. Equality, like discrimination and tolerance, has become twisted, turned into weasel words, corrupted by those who speak them, and government agents who publish them and impose policy in their name. “When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty”, Confucius lamented. How true that is with the passage of this most UN-equal of acts yet. Strictly speaking, the Equality Act, authored and initiated by openly gay Congressman David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island) is designed to expand and amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Whereas the Civil Rights Act of 1964 intended to prevent discrimination against individuals based on sex, race, or ethnicity, the Equality Act wants to extend these protections to individuals who identify as LGBT … and however many other letters the larger-scale movement intends to add. More casually speaking, this legislation is a push to further corrupt our natural rights, which are immutable, God-given, and clearly defended in the Unites States Constitution. Pundits from George Will to Charles Krauthammer have pointed out that the state’s obsessive push to create more rights simply creates more government. What is particularly disturbing, however, with the Equality Act is the Democratic majority’s particular need to recognize rights for an essentially newly-created status of people whose identity is based on dubious claims of immutability.

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Indeed, people are born into certain ethnic and even so-called racial categories. No one should dispute that. Male and female are indeed concrete aspects of human experience. These factors are not based on integumentary expression or personal experience. Rather, increasing rigor in genetic research has confirmed that 9,000+ chromosomal aspects determine male or female. These realities cannot be altered by surgery, hormonal replacements, or plastic implants. And yet the Equality Act brushes aside thousands of years of history and the biological record to determine that “self-identifying” characteristics not only quality as grounds for defense from discrimination, but necessitate the forfeiting of the natural rights of all for the delusional fantasies of the few. Looking back over 55 years, when libertarian-leaning, gold-standard conservative US Senator Barry Goldwater refused to vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, we can understand why his fears of government intrusion to enforce equity would be fraught with unintended consequences. Even pro-gay libertarian columnist John Stossel has repeatedly stressed that government action and sanction are neither sufficient nor effective in combatting discrimination in our larger society. During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Labor and Education Committee to be the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson announced that he did not believe in special rights for some. Yet that is precisely what “The Equality Act” wants to do. The bill authors and sponsors claim that they want to eliminate discrimination against a class of individuals, people who face discrimination just for “being who they are” as oft-repeated by the stunning number of Democratic lawmakers who blithely dismissed the laws of nature and nature’s God.

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And back to this issue of discrimination. Just like equality, tolerance, acceptance, etc., discrimination has been twisted into a perennially bad word, a concept which dare not speak its name. Yet discrimination and inequality, generally defined as distinctions among entities and differences among diverse attributes or outcomes, are inevitable, natural occurrences in life. Discrimination is a necessary element for free enterprise and free people. There is male and female by virtue of biological fact. In the fields of economic, athletic, and even political competition, challenges will emerge for pre-eminence or supremacy, i.e. someone is going to win, and someone is going to lose. Within economic activity in particular, economic gain or loss in the business sector creates victories for every consumer. Any direct push to eliminate distinctions of merit or quality creates a dystopian wasteland in which everyone loses, and not by choice. Communism, like other radical pushes for equality by government fiat in education or health care, end up creating a race to the bottom in terms of opportunity, options, and outcomes. The push for Equality with a capital E in all matters, and particularly as the final goal of government, is not fair—in fact, it’s quite discriminatory, and in the worst way possible. Sadly, this race to the bottom will become worse if the mislabeled Equality Act becomes law. Women are already being left behind in growing numbers in athletic pursuits because men pretending to be women outclass them every time. The push to reduce marriage, sex, sexuality, identity into irreducible equals reduces everything into tyranny or unseemly anarchy. Activists for life, liberty, faith, family, and freedom must stop running away or avoiding these fundamental discussions. We need to talk about the true meanings of equality—as in before the law, based on natural rights, not government overgrowth; discrimination, whether invidious—as based on arbitrary and irrelevant factors, or essential, as in distinguishing death from life, health from sickness, good vs. evil; and tolerance, as a vapid embrace of everything—which means nothing--or a calm respect for the differences among others, based on clearly defined, immutable principles. Anything less than a frank debate on these issues will hasten a government which races to the bottom, abandoning liberty and limited government for inescapable, tyrannical “equality.


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Arthur Christopher Schaper is a teacher-turned-writer on topics both timeless and timely; political, cultural, and eternal. A life-long Southern California resident, Arthur currently lives in Torrance.

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