Congress to dip its toe into ‘religious liberty’ debate?
Tamar Hallerman
July 6, 2016
WASHINGTON — Georgia critics of Gov. Nathan Deal’s ‘religious liberty’ veto are licking their wounds and preparing for a new round of fighting in the legislature next year, but lawmakers on the federal level are only now beginning to consider whether to dip their toe into the debate.
The Hill reports there are plans in the works for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to hold a hearing next week on the First Amendment Defense Act, or FADA. The legislation would bar the federal government from penalizing people, groups or businesses that believe marriage should be between one man and one woman.
The hearing hasn’t yet been formally announced, and a committee spokeswoman did not confirm the report.
But here’s one intriguing detail, as reported by the LGBT newspaper The Washington Blade: one of the invited witnesses is Kelvin Cochran, the former Atlanta fire chief. Cochran was fired by the city last year after publishing a religious book in which he called homosexuality a “perversion.”
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/07/06/congress-to-dip-its-toe-into-religious-liberty-debate/
