An anti-LGBTQ bill may be one of the first pieces of legislation up for a congressional vote during Donald Trump's impending presidency, and the President-elect already said that that he would sign it into law if it got through Congress.

After failing to gain momentum when introducing the bill in 2015, Republican Senators Mike Lee and Ted Cruz plan to put forth the First Amendment Defense Act again in 2017 in the hopes that it'll receive more positive reinforcement during Trump's presidency.

The First Amendment Defense Act claims to be all about protecting religious freedom, a major part of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. However, the bill does this by taking away the freedom of members of the LGBTQ community. One of the chief components of the bill is that the federal government can't punish people or businesses for acting on a "religious belief or moral conviction" that marriage is between one man and one woman or that "sexual relations" should only happen after marriage.

How could this work in practice? A hospital, for example, could turn away members of the LGBTQ community seeking treatment due to its apparent "religious beliefs," and it would be perfectly legal. Or, on the business side, a hotel could refuse to rent rooms to same-sex couples by citing "moral convictions."

On his own website, Trump makes it clear that he would support the law if it can make its way through Congress onto his desk. "If I am elected president and Congress passes the First Amendment Defense Act, I will sign it to protect the deeply held religious beliefs of Catholics and the beliefs of Americans of all faiths," the website reads. "The Little Sisters of the Poor, or any religious order for that matter, will always have their religious liberty protected on my watch and will not have to face bullying from the government because of their religious beliefs."

In what appears to becoming a routine tactic for the president-elect, Trump has flip-flopped on the issue of same-sex marriage. During a 60 Minutes interview shortly after the election, he said he was "fine" with same-sex marriage and was going to leave it alone, a complete contradiction to his online campaign promise that leads to more ambiguity and panic for what will actually happen once Trump takes office.

As for the bill itself, the battle is just beginning. Opponents of the First Amendment Defense Act say that it's less about religious freedom and instead trying to roll back LGBTQ anti-discrimination legislation and the Supreme Court decision from 2015 that upheld same-sex marriage. There are additional concerns about how the vast and vague language of the bill could lead to many unintended loopholes that'll continue to affect large populations in the U.S.

Luckily, there are numerous judicial obstacles that could keep it from becoming a law. Trying to discriminate against one group of people in an attempt to "accommodate" another is unconstitutional per the Equal Protection and the Establishment Clause, and the rights of the LGBTQ community are specifically protected by the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling in 2015. Furthermore, a similar bill passed through the state legislature in Mississippi this year, only to be blocked by a federal court due to violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Regardless of if the bill gets struck down, Trump's support of a potential law that openly discriminates against the LGBTQ community is yet another notch in the ongoing anti-LGBTQ rhetoric of the upcoming administration that will affect millions of people nationwide. The question is, what will it take to protect these rights — and will Americans have to wait another four years to see these protections expanded?

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