Likely GOP Congressman Pastor Jody Hice is calling on Congress to pass a law banning what he deems is discrimination against those who discriminate against gay people.
Jody Hice recently won the GOP primary in Georgia for a seat in the U.S. Congress. Being a deep red Georgia district, chances that a Democrat will beat him in November at slim.
Hice, a pastor who hosts a daily radio talk show, which he use to advance his policies and ideas (seemingly sponsored by a 501(c)(3)Â non-profit organization,) late last month wrongly conflated President Barack Obama’s HHS contraception mandate with his executive order banning anti-LGBT discrimination by federal contractors.
Hice, who almost certainly will be elected a U.S. Congressman in November, is calling on Congress to pass a law banning “discrimination” by the federal government of people who discriminate against LGBT people. In short, Hice is calling for a federal religious license to discriminate.
As Right Wing Watch reports, “Hice said that Obama’s decision to sign this executive order ‘is almost like a thumbing of the nose of the president at the U.S. Supreme Court, at our First Amendment, at our unalienable rights … How else do you look at this but a thumbing of those nose of our administration at our First Amendment and our Supreme Court at the same time.'”
Hice went on to call upon Congress to repeal Obama’s executive order by passing legislation that would “clearly prohibit our government from itself discriminating against any individual or any group or organization, whether nonprofit or for profit, it doesn’t matter, to prevent the government from discriminating based on the beliefs about marriage and sexuality.”
“Our government, our system, absolutely should be prohibited from discriminating against these types of groups,” Hice declared. “Our government should not be allowed to use these things to penalize individuals and groups for not adjusting their philosophies to political correct ideas.”
In May the Daily Beast labeled Pastor Hice “Mr. Bigot.”
Listen to Hice from his radio show last month:
In May, Hice falsely warned that gay people have a plot to seduce and sodomize America’s sons. And just one week before demanding legislation to protect anti-LGBT hate masquerading as religious expression, Hice praised the Bundy Ranch militia for being “prepared to die,” then linked the “undercurrent” of frustration they have with government to “the whole battle over gay marriage.”
Here an image from Hice’s Facebook page:
Hat tip and audio via Right Wing Watch