12 GOP Senators Ditched Their Constituents To Allow For Government Persecution Of Speech In Deceptive LGBT Bill

Respondents to the Respect for Marriage Act

• Constituents of the 12 Republican senators who voted to advance it strongly oppose the legislation because they know it poses a risk to the First Amendment rights of religious Americans.
• 47% oppose the bill, a plurality oppose it, and 70% oppose it in a poll by the Heritage Foundation.
• Under this bill, religious organizations and business owners who do not submit to the government’s attempts to dictate Americans’ theology will be subject to legal scrutiny, endless lawsuits, and fines. Young, Ernst, Romney, Moore Capito, Lummis, and their seven other Republican colleagues who voted for the objectionable legislation were warned of its problems by legal scholars, legislators, and religious liberty groups including Ryan T. Anderson, Roger Severino, Rep. Chip Roy, Sen. Mike Lee, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Liberty Counsel. Regardless of those warnings, the GOP senators voted to proceed.

When voters learned that religious organizations and for-profit businesses that are owned and operated by people with traditional beliefs about marriage would come under fire for those beliefs, dissent for the bill rose to 53 percent among all voters.

• The poll never directly asked whether the government should be able to tell religious nonprofits or other businesses what to believe but still yielded majority opposition generally and huge majority opposition from the constituents of several of the supportive GOP senators

https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/28/their-constituents-oppose-the-gay-marriage-bill-so-whom-do-these-12-gop-senators-think-theyre-representing/