#shorts On 12/13/2022, a reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “The President (inaudible) about to enact a landmark piece of civil rights legislation, but I was hoping you could speak to the concerns that some have expressed that what’s actually in the bill could be read as something that codifies discrimination. There’s a section here that speaks to the ability of nonprofit religious organizations, faith-based social agencies, educational institutions, employees of those organizations to deny services, accommodations, facilities, goods, advantages, privileges to gay couples. So how is that not codifying discrimination?”

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: … I know there’s questions about religious liberty. And so we believe that — you know, we believe that the RFMA contains strong protections for houses of worship and religious nonprofits. And this question was well litigated throughout the legislative process where it passed with both chambers of bipartisan support. And I think that matters, right? Bi-Carmel, bipartisan support was had for this piece of legislation.

Q: Codify discrimination? faith-based can’t deny services to gay couples A: strong protections for houses of worship and religious nonprofits