Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert has called the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) part of President Barack
Obama's “war on religion,” media watchdog RightWingWatch.org
reported.
The 58-year-old Gohmert criticized the
federal bill which would outlaw employers from discriminating against
workers on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Speaking on the conservative radio show
Today's Issues, Gohmert told host Tony Perkins, president of
the Christian conservative group Family Research Council (FRC), that
ENDA is part of Obama's “ongoing war on religion, on particularly
Judeo-Christian values.”
“But of course this is one that even
is extremely contrary to the Muslim religion as well. I mean, Islam,
Judaism, although there are plenty of people in Judaism and
Christianity who think despite the plumbing that God created, that as
the Iowa Supreme Court said, there is no biological evidence of a
preference for a man and a woman being married as opposed to a man
and a man.”
“It also means that Christian schools
will be forced to hire openly homosexual individuals, and it's kind
of tough to teach biblical principles in Romans 1 in a school if you
are of the persuasion of being homosexual.” (The video is embedded
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Gohmert made his remarks on the same
day a Senate panel held a hearing on the measure.