HOW THE EQUALITY ACT REFLECTS THE POLITICAL AND MORAL DECLINE OF AMERICA

We have been aware of the slow moral decline in the American government even before the legalization of abortion in 1973. But with the passing of the Equality Act, America will achieve a whole new level of moral and political contradiction. Since the Equality Act aims to legally require individuals who claim to be the sex opposite their own to be treated as such, independent companies and schools will no longer have the power to keep biological men and women apart in spaces such as bathrooms and dressing rooms. To some extent, it will even become illegal to verbally declare a biological man is a man if he wants to be called a woman.
This not only puts women in danger and encourages people with gender dysphoria to seek treatments that will harm themselves, as opposed to getting the help they need to accept themselves body and soul, but it completely ignores the reason the First Amendment was written: so that citizens could openly express their opinions and beliefs, no matter how controversial. It is not the sweet pleasing words that must be guarded, but the controversial opinions which people have the right to freely express that require protection. What I find the most disgusting in the Equality Act is simply that it is binding to law what people are allowed to express. If a man decides to believe himself or refer to himself as a woman regardless of his objective genetic code, that is of no consequence to me, but the moment I am bound by law to express beliefs I do not hold (which would be contrary to one of the most fundamental human rights), that is when the validity of the government comes into question.
As is becoming more and more evident, the American government is falling farther from what it was originally established as by the Founding Fathers, but from what is this decline originating? I argue that the government collapses the farther the morality of the people declines. Without any support from the citizens, government is powerless. The reason the government is even able to put into consideration passing bills like the Equality Act is because it is receiving support from the people. The American citizens are the ones on whom the fate of the country rests, so with the falling of morality, the government system begins to crumble. According to John Adams, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
In other words, the failing of the American government to do its job by protecting the rights of its citizens is partially due to the decline of morality in the people. Naturally, there are corrupt members of Congress and the Senate whose influence in bills like the Equality Act cannot and should not go overlooked, but the reason it even has a chance at passing means there is a significant amount of supporters in the general public.
The Equality Act is marking the progression of the obliteration of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. What was once the proud history of our free nation is being undone by its own people in the name of liberty. I fear for what will become of our country if the government continues to take control and the people either support it or do nothing to prevent further injustice and federal contradiction. However, because it is on account of the people’s lack of morality that the government is crumbling, we know that we have the power, as American citizens, to prevent the collapse of our country by redirecting the moral standard through prayer and evangelization.