Argument Summary: Representative Julio Gonzalez

Representative Julio Gonzalez filed a “religious” freedom protection bill that would allow any healthcare provider to refuse services to any person who violated the provider’s moral and/or religious conscience meaning the bill is clearly aimed at gay people even though the bill doesn’t mention sexual orientation. In addition Gonzalez wants to empower adoption agencies to refuse to place children in homes with two lesbians all due to their religious convictions and also allow individuals and small companies to refuse service on the same grounds. Gonzalez has already implemented this bill in Arkansas and Indiana. I for one do not support his bill because health insurance should be available for everyone, religion shouldn’t be used to discriminate others, and if the bill becomes law, these businesses would not have “to produce, create, or deliver a product or service” that violates a religious or moral principle held by a business or its employees. Health insurance should be available for everybody no matter the size, the color, nor where you come from. Just because they decided to be gay doesn’t give us the right to treat them different. We should have a respect …show more content…
People who work in these companies are Christians and they are against homosexuals (which is respectable). However when it gets to the point where they can use religion to discriminate them is absurd. Christians should have a heart to love one another not hate the person next to you because he/she is gay. Now that Gonzalez filed the bill, they have the right to kick them out of their establishment. “When that happen-the true faith, the central meaning that is taught in its scriptures, is distorted, if not corrupted. Ultimately, despite their conflicting viewpoints, most Christians are sincerely struggling to interact with the modern world in a spirit of love, being true to what they believe God wants.” (Sanna