Last week, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing on “the administration’s religious liberty assault on LGBT rights,” highlighting the alleged ways in which the Trump administration’s expansion of religious-liberty protections has undermined the rights of same-sex couples and transgender people. The Democratic majority on the committee — which includes representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley — called four witnesses to discuss the administration’s religious-liberty efforts and the supposed “discrimination” enacted by “zealots” in the name of their faith.
One could not help but notice that the committee, convened in opposition to religious zealotry, included four elected representatives who believe, as a matter of faith, that a man can become a woman just by saying so.
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