2/9/25
The following bills obey and defend the following United States and Wyoming constitutional provisions and thus are all CONSTITUTIONAL. To fulfil their Oath of Office, all legislators should support these bills.
HB0207 Religious Freedom Restoration Act; HB0222 Medical Ethics Defense Act-2; HB0223 Preventing strategic lawsuits against public participation; HB0339 Homeowners associations-display of political campaign signs; and SF0077 Compelled speech is not free speech. A commentary is provided for each bill after the constitutional provisions below.
United States Constitution
Amendment 1, Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Wyoming State Constitution
Article 1, Section 18, Religious liberty.
The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship without discrimination or preference shall be forever guaranteed in this state, and no person shall be rendered incompetent to hold any office of trust or profit, or to serve as a witness or juror, because of his opinion on any matter of religious belief whatever; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of the state.
Article 6, Section 1, Male and female citizens to enjoy equal rights.
The rights of citizens of the State of Wyoming to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. Both male and female citizens of this state shall equally enjoy all civil, political and religious rights and privileges.
HB207 Religious Freedom Restoration Act
CONSTITUTIONAL
As of 2/9/25 the bill does not have any amendments.
“Gives a person a fair day in court to make their case as to why they shouldn’t be forced to do something that might violate their conscience.” “Sets a standard to follow, but does not decide the outcome of any case.” (Video of sponsor summarizing the bill for the House Judiciary Committee.)
As examples: This bill addresses bakers from being legally forced to provide services to actions that violate their religious beliefs, as in the case of Jack Phillips who refused to create a Masterpiece cake for a gender transition celebration. It is also pertinent that other business owners, including a Washington florist, appear to have been specifically targeted with this kind of lawfare because of their religious beliefs. Over a ten year span the WA florist had never refused service to a gay customer until he wanted her to provide flowers for a gay wedding. After she refused, a lawsuit was filed.
HB222 Medical Ethics Defense Act-2
CONSTITUTIONAL
As of 2/9/25 the bill does not have any amendments.
“This bill protects the conscience rights of medical professionals. Every American should have the freedom to live according to their ethical and religious beliefs, and this includes medical professionals.” (Video of sponsor summarizing the bill for the House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee.)
HB222 is written to protect medical professionals from being terminated, as well as from censorship and potential lawfare when they are expected to perform or professionally support treatments or procedures that directly conflict with their right of conscience.
As examples: This bill protects medical professionals from being forced, against their religious conscience/beliefs, to directly facilitate procedures or treatments for abortions, physician assisted suicides or gender-affirming care.
This bill would also protect medical professionals to express themselves according to their professional conscience – as in the case of Wyoming Dr. Eric Cubin when he expressed his opinion on WY 2023 Chloe’s Law which bans transgender medical treatments being performed on children. After sending letters to legislators in support of the bill, Governor Mark Gordon later removed Dr. Cubin from the Wyoming Board of Medicine ultimately saying that Cubin had a conflict of interest. Dr. Cubin filed suit (Cubin v. Gordon) which is still making its way through the courts.
Noteworthy: In the above committee video Representative Mike Yin stated there is already a statute [35-22-408 (e)] that provides protection for a medical professional’s conscience. However the statute Yin references only applies to Chapter 22, Living Wills. HB222 would provide a new stand-alone chapter specifically for the Medical Ethics Defense Act.
HB0223 Preventing strategic lawsuits against public participation
CONSTITUTIONAL
As of 2/9/25 the bill has one committee amendment that does not change the intent of the bill.
Referred to as the “Wyoming Anti‑SLAPP Act”, which provides “immunity from lawsuits based on the constitutional rights of freedom of petition, expression or speech; specifying procedures and limitations for lawsuits based on public participation”. (Video of sponsor summarizing the bill for the House Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee.)
As in the two bills listed above, HB223 protects individuals First Amendment rights from frivolous lawsuits (lawfare) designed to censor people from expressing their opinion and their right to participate in their First Amendment rights. Thirty three states have already passed similar versions of the Anti‑SLAPP Act.
HB339 Homeowners associations-display of political campaign signs
CONSTITUTIONAL
As of 2/9/25 this bill has one committee amendment that does not change the intent of the bill.
“No homeowners’ association shall prohibit the indoor or outdoor display of a campaign sign, including any flag, advertising a candidate for nomination or election to public office or a clearly identified ballot proposition for an election.” (Video of sponsor summarizing the bill for the House Labor, Health & Social Services Committee.)
Even though members of homeowners’ association have agreed to certain HOA rules, this bill recognizes and supports the First Amendment rights of Wyoming citizens. The bill does not however prohibit a homeowners’ association from dictating how many signs are allowed, how long they’re displayed, how signs are physically mounted, or disallowing signs that contain obscene language.
SF77 Compelled speech is not free speech
CONSTITUTIONAL
As of 2/9/25 this bill has one committee amendment that does not change the intent of the bill.
“The state and its political subdivisions shall not compel or require an employee to refer to another employee using that employee’s preferred pronouns.” “The government cannot force you to say anything you do not want to say”. (Video of sponsor summarizing the bill for the Senate Judiciary Committee.)
compel – to force someone to do something
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/compel
The way in which SF77 is tied to the First Amendment is prohibiting the government from forcing someone to express something they do not believe. In this way, compelled speech violates a person’s conscience and turns speech into a command – which is an authoritarian dictate.
307 Votes Note:
Even more insidious, any individual that is asked to state what pronouns they prefer (as in a job/employee setting or within the public school system) is psychologically manipulated into buying into the whole transgender pronoun issue altogether just by being forced to participate in such nonsense.
This manipulation has already been happening to Wyoming public school students (grades 6th to 12th) who are being given more than two gender choices on Wyoming state issued surveys. This can be seen on the last page of the 2022 WY Prevention Needs Assessment (PNA) Student Survey that was written by the University of Wyoming:
Here is a 1 minute Dr. Jordan Peterson video on the authoritarian foundations of “compelled speech”.