Voters Recoil at House Gun Agenda

California’s Nancy Pelosi (D) has been waiting to get her hands back on the House speaker’s gavel for nearly a decade. Now that she might, it’s obvious how she plans to use it: as a hammer on the values of everyday Americans.

Democrats have to know how voters feel about their radical social agenda. (If they didn’t, this week’s polling ought to make it quite clear.) Everyone from party bosses to the mainstream media blamed it for Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016. But with the keys of half of Congress within reach, liberal leaders just can’t seem to help themselves.

Pelosi was already quite clear about one of her first priorities: ending religious freedom and privacy as we know it. “It isn’t in our ‘For the People’ agenda,” she explained, “because it doesn’t get that specific, but there’s one more because it’s personal for me that I really want to do, and it’s called the Equality Act.” Considered the most radical piece of pro-LGBT legislation ever introduced in Congress, this bill would force Americans’ conformity on everything from sexuality to transgenderism. It would make what’s been unfolding in Target bathrooms look like a Sunday school picnic. Under this bill, anyone who objects to same-sex marriage or gender-specific policies would be severely punished by the government. That includes schools, businesses, food banks, adoption agencies, homeless shelters, faith-based ministries, and government offices.

As if that weren’t offensive enough, the prospective speaker wants to give voters a hefty dose of gun control. On CNN Thursday, Pelosi confirmed what most Americans fear. “I do believe, because in this Congress…there is bipartisan legislation to have common sense background checks to prevent guns going into the wrong hands. It doesn’t cover everything, but it will save many lives.” This, she said clearly, “will be a priority for us going into the next Congress.”

In a party that doesn’t know the meaning of the word “moderation,” this kind of ideological whiplash might backfire. It certainly did in 2010 and 2016. When voters entrusted the House to Democrats, it wasn’t an endorsement of their radical social agenda. If you don’t believe me, read the exit polling. Tuesday’s election was as much about the GOP’s inability to get values bills passed as anything else. This is where you will play a critical role in educating your senators, especially Republican senators, that they’re now the firewall between Nancy Pelosi and common sense American values.

Tony Perkins’ Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.

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