From Infidel753:
The Republicans have a nasty theocratic surprise waiting for us — the grotesquely misnamed “First Amendment Defense Act”, which is in fact a national version of the pro-discrimination “religious freedom” laws enacted in places like Indiana and North Carolina over the last few years. So far from “defending” the First Amendment, it would make religious taboos and prejudices a blanket excuse for violating the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, preventing the federal government from enforcing any limit on discrimination when that discrimination is motivated by religion. Any form of discrimination against gays would become legal under federal law. Obstruction of access to birth control, or to pretty much anything else that some knuckle-dragger decides he doesn’t like, would be similarly protected.