Dear
Friend,
At
a time when our state is dealing with the health, economic, and
cultural effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, LGBTQ activist groups and
their allies in the General Assembly have exposed their radical agenda
for North Carolina by filing a
number of bad bills in the NC General
Assembly:
The North Carolina Values Coalition believes every
person should be treated with dignity and respect and our laws should
protect constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of every citizen, no
matter who they are. Unfortunately, these bills seek to implement
coercive sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”) laws that
would undermine both fairness and freedom. Furthermore, these
bills:
- Create unfair playing fields for girls in athletics,
forcing them to compete against biological males who have an unfair
advantage physically.
- Threaten the right of parents to raise their children
consistently with their beliefs, instead mandating curriculum in
schools that affirms and promotes gender ideology and depriving
parents of the right to refuse harmful medical experiments that alter
the God-given sex of their children.
- Harm efforts to find loving homes for kids in our
nation’s overloaded foster care system by forcing faith-based adoption
and foster care providers to violate their beliefs or stop their
important work.
People of faith should not be treated like second-class
citizens, and that is exactly what these bills propose. They would
override the fundamental right to exercise our religious beliefs and
engage in free speech that our First Amendment guarantees.
Disagreement is not discrimination, yet these bills target those whose
views the LGBT groups don’t like rather than respecting a diversity of
beliefs. These bills would ostracize and marginalize people who hold
decent and honorable beliefs about marriage, sex, and
gender.
Our state does not need, nor does it support,
the radical extremism in these bad
bills. NC Values Coalition is urging our members
to encourage their legislators not to fall into the trap of using
government to punish citizens who disagree about marriage, sex, and
gender by violating their fundamental rights of free speech and
freedom of religion.
If you support the work the NC
Values Coalition does fighting against bad bills like these at the
General Assembly, would you consider making a $500, $250, $100, $75,
$50, or $25 donation today towards our
efforts?
Sincerely,
Tami Fitzgerald
NC Values
Coalition
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