On the recordMay 17, 2019
Yes, I would be happy to engage my colleague from Utah. Mr. McADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I want to confirm and clarify in our debate today that H.R. 5 does not change our Nation's longstanding First Amendment right to free religious exercise, speech, and association. I understand that houses of worship will not be affected in their religious observances by the public accommodations provisions in H.R. 5. The current exemption in title II of the Civil Rights Act remains in place, so chapels, temples, synagogues, mosques, and other houses of worship will continue to have legal certainty to practice their religion, conduct services, and affiliate with fellow members of their religion, as well as engage and welcome others not of their faith in their houses of worship for religious activity or faith practice, as they do now.
