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March 3, 2021 (Family Research Council) – A lot has been made about the need for Republicans to “get on board” with some sort of alternative to the ill-conceived Equality Act. However, the “Fairness for All Act,” introduced by Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) one day after the Equality Act vote in the House, is just as ill-conceived as the bill it is trying to replace. To constitute an acceptable alternative, a legislative proposal should actually solve a problem. While Fairness for All (FFA) backers may mean well, their proposal solves nothing.
Like the Equality Act, FFA would overhaul our federal civil rights framework and introduce special privileges for sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) throughout federal law. Unlike the Equality Act, FFA does provide scattered protections for religious liberty. However, these protections are so minuscule and incremental, they fail to adequately deal with many religious liberty issues that have arisen as a result of SOGI laws.
On top of this, the philosophical approach of FFA sends the message that religious liberty is something that can be “carved out” of a broad
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