On Wednesday, in craven contradiction to his earlier position, House Speaker John Boehner plans to lead the Republican-controlled House in enacting a continuing resolution that will provide the administration with the money to carry out its attack on religious liberty while leaving Barack Obama's claimed authority to do so unchallenged. Every member of the House who joins Boehner and the Republican leaders in backing this CR will share their culpability for it.
The House Republican leaders today rushed through a vote on a 269-page $982-billion continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal 2013 in direct violation of a pledge they made to the American people to post bills online for at least 72 hours before voting on them. The text of the new CR was first posted online on the House website at 2:21 p.m. on Monday. The House leadership held the vote on the bill at 2:03 p.m. Wednesday. That is a little less than 48 hours after they posted it online for review by members and the public.
Provisions in the recently passed Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that single-out gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBT) put domestic violence among those groups at the center of the federal effort to address such violence nationwide. After it passed the Democrat-controlled Senate, the Republican leadership brought the bill up for a vote last week in the House and it passed. It has now been sent to President Obama for his signature.
The new law does not provide a definition for transgender or bisexual. However, the American Psychological Association defines transgender as “an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female, or something else; gender expression refers to the way a person communicates gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice, or body characteristics.”
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