02.11 / 14:19
Marriage Equality
Transgender
Virginia GOP Congressman rails against gay marriage, transgender shelter access in House floor speech
Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2021, a piece of legislation that funds emergency shelters and support services for domestic violence survivors.“Nearly everything that plagues our society can be attributed to a failure to follow God’s law and his rules for and definition of marriage and family,” Good said in his speech.Good attacked the bill’s provisions, which prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in shelters and support services, and require that shelters that offer sex-segregated or sex-specific programming provide “comparable services to individuals who cannot be provided with the sex-segregated or sex-specific programming.” Good claimed that such provisions would “coerce
