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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/05/lawmaker-likens-opposing-chick-fil-a-to-an-all-out-assault-on-our-freedom-to-worship/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/05/lawmaker-likens-opposing-chick-fil-a-to-an-all-out-assault-on-our-freedom-to-worship/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014 Texas Republican State Rep. Jeff Leach signed on to <a href="https://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/15546/same-sex-marriage-could-lead-to-polygamy-incest-says-dan-patrick-ken-paxton-61-gop-legislators" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">an amicus brief</a> warning same-sex marriage could lead to polygamy and incest.</font></p><div class="p1_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2016 Rep. Leach signed on to an amicus brief <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/lawmakers-sign-same-sex-benefits-brief/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">arguing that same-sex spouses of government employees should not be granted the same benefits</a>, such as health insurance, granted to different-sex spouses of government employees.</font></p><div class="p2_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2017, Leach <a href="https://www.themonitor.com/2019/01/07/texas-lawmakers-see-less-appetite-divisive-measures/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">supported a bill</a> that would have banned transgender Texans from using restrooms that correspond with their gender identity.</font></p><div class="p3_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And on Tuesday morning, Rep.Leach went on “Fox & Friends” to support <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Chick-fil-A" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chick-fil-A</strong></a>, the restaurant chain known for tasty chicken sandwiches whose profits are used by its owners to support anti-LGBT organizations and even at least one hate group.</font></p><div class="p4_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not only is Rep. Leach supporting Chick-fil-A, he’s supporting legislation to protect the purveyor of fast food with a plate of hate.</font></p><div class="p5_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A “Save Chick-fil-A” bill <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/05/texas-republicans-tried-to-pass-a-savechickfila-religious-freedom-bill-an-lgbt-democrat-just-killed-it/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">was defeated in the Texas House last week</a> by an LGBT Democrat and the LGBT House Caucus, but on Monday the bill was “quietly revived” in the Senate.</font></p><div class="p6_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“On Monday, the Senate waived rules to allow Hughes’ bill to be heard in committee without public notice,” <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2019/05/13/texas-house-killed-save-chick-fil-bill-senate-just-revived" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the Dallas Morning News reports</a>, explaining how Republicans chose to secretly push the bill through. “A few minutes later, the Senate Affairs Committee convened and held a speedy public hearing on the bill with no speakers — probably because no one had notice there would be a debate. When the bill came before the House State Affairs committee last month, dozens of people spoke for and against the bill.”</font></p><div class="p7_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Later, the committee advanced the bill to the full Senate and placed it on the Senate’s intent calendar for Tuesday.”</font></p><div class="p8_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Cathy family, owners of the $10 billion, 2200 location Chick-fil-A chain, via their foundation have donated millions of dollars to groups that discriminate.</font></p><div class="p9_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leach says not only should Americans not argue that Chick-fil-A’s food is tasty, but they should not even be allowed to argue over the anti-LGBT organizations Chick-fil-A’s profits support.</font></p><div class="p10_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You can’t argue with Chick-fil-a’s food, and I don’t think you should be able to argue with the organizations that Chick-fil-a chooses to support either,” Leach told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday.</font></p><div class="p11_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leach likens opposing Chick-fil-A and the groups they support to “a all-out assault on our freedom to worship and to give our money to organizations we want to support.”</font></p><div class="p12_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is not, of course, “a all out assault on our freedom to worship and to give our money to organizations we want to support.”</font></p><div class="p13_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is, however, growing resistance, even in Texas, to supporting discrimination and hate, even when it’s cloaked in the shroud of “religious freedom.”</font></p><div class="p14_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch Rep.Leach on “Fox & Friends”:</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div>