URGENT: Tell PHRC to Reject New Proposal that Threatens Religious Freedom, Privacy Rights

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URGENT: Tell PHRC to Reject New Proposal that Threatens Religious Freedom, Privacy Rights

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC), an unelected group of nine commissioners appointed by the governor, is proposing to circumvent state law and to work around the state legislature in order to advance Gov. Tom Wolf’s harmful agenda that puts your religious freedom and bodily privacy at risk.

The PHRC is proposing a broad definition of sex in regulations that will apply to discrimination in areas of employment, housing, commercial property, public accommodations, and educational institutions. Included in this new definition would be the special classes of “sex assigned at birth, gender identity/expression, differences in sex development, and affectional/sexual orientation.”

These proposed regulations would effectively permit lawsuits against a host of Pennsylvania citizens who are simply exercising their religious freedom and seeking to recognize rights to bodily privacy. These new regulations may:

Punish religious employers, like Christian schools, if they decline to hire a person who disagrees with church teaching on issues of human sexuality;
Open dorms so that your daughter’s roommate would be determined by gender identity, not by sex;
Allow men who identify as women to compete in women’s sports and enter women’s shelters, open bathrooms, changing areas, and showers to the opposite sex, and force residential programs like group homes and in-patient substance abuse programs to house residents by gender-identity rather than sex;
Force doctors — against their conscience — to remove healthy body parts from those who want gender-reassignment surgery and force doctors to stop the puberty of children and inject opposite sex hormones into kids; and
Punish wedding service providers who choose not to participate in same-sex weddings that violate their conscience.

LGBTQ activists and the Governor’s Office worked with the PHRC to craft these new harmful regulations, while no other stakeholders were consulted. These new regulations would also cover the Pennsylvania Fair Educational Opportunities Act. PHRC has proposed its new regulations to the state Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) for its review. After a public comment period, the IRRC will vote to either approve or reject the regulations.

Take Action: There is a window of time – through Monday, May 9, 2022 – for public comment on the proposed regulations. Use this action alert to contact the PHRC with your concerns about these harmful proposed rules.

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Pennsylvania Family Council
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URGENT: Tell PHRC to Reject New Proposal that Threatens Religious Freedom, Privacy Rights

Punish religious employers, like Christian schools, if they decline to hire a person who disagrees with church teaching on issues of human sexuality;
Open dorms so that your daughter’s roommate would be determined by gender identity, not by sex;
Allow men who identify as women to compete in women’s sports and enter women’s shelters, open bathrooms, changing areas, and showers to the opposite sex, and force residential programs like group homes and in-patient substance abuse programs to house residents by gender-identity rather than sex;
Force doctors — against their conscience — to remove healthy body parts from those who want gender-reassignment surgery and force doctors to stop the puberty of children and inject opposite sex hormones into kids; and
Punish wedding service providers who choose not to participate in same-sex weddings that violate their conscience.

URGENT: Tell PHRC to Reject New Proposal that Threatens Religious Freedom, Privacy Rights

Subject: Rescind the proposed changes to sex discrimination

Message:

I ask you to rescind proposed regulations, #52-13, by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission that broaden the definition of sex. Pennsylvanians agree that everyone should be treated with respect. But rather than advancing that laudable goal, the proposed PHRC regulations add broad phrases to the definitions, which will have the effect of putting many good Pennsylvanians and ministries in legal jeopardy. Similar laws in other states have been used to open up locker rooms based on gender identity rather than sex. Doctors and religious hospitals have been sued elsewhere for refusing to remove healthy organs from patients identifying with the opposite sex. Clearly no Pennsylvanian should be denied medical care based on class-status, but these proposed changes fail to distinguish between true class-based discrimination and the freedom of doctors to refuse harmful and often-regretted surgeries. Likewise, laws like these can be used to force religious entities, including Christian schools, to hire those who do not agree with the religious entities' beliefs about human sexuality, marriage, and gender. This form of intolerance should be rejected here in Pennsylvania. This type of major policy change that has significant ramifications should not be made by regulation but should instead be decided by duly-elected lawmakers in representation of the individuals, families, and communities they serve. I respectfully ask that you rescind this new proposal.

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Pennsylvania Family Council
717-545-0600 | pafamily.org

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