Mark Houck, the Catholic pro-life activist who was arrested for violating the FACE Act, is suing the government that attempted to put him in a federal prison. Video evidence helped a jury acquit Houck after an hour of deliberation but only after the Department of Justice indicted him and the FBI raided his home.
“We filed our preliminary complaint two weeks ago," Houck told the "Washington Watch" program. "The government now has six months to reply to it."
After learning of a federal investigation, Houck's attorneys assured federal prosecutors his shove outside an abortion clinic did not violate the FACE Act, and told the Feds they would lose their case, but the DOJ pursued the abortion-related case anyway.
Houck's attorneys also assured the DOJ their client would show up in court for an arraignment, but that was ignored, too, and an FBI SWAT team showed up at his home to put him in handcuffs.
“The government in an instant stole the innocence of my children,” Houck said, referring to his shocked children that morning. "We're going to hold the government accountable because it's necessary in order to prevent this from happening to future Americans.”
While Houck seeks government accountability, Rep. Mary Miller (R-Illinois) and other House Republicans are challenging the Department of Health and Human Services for a proposed rule that would keep Christian couples from serving as foster parents.
The rule would require that foster parents and families honor a child’s chosen gender identity should it go against the child’s biological sex. Parents would be forced to use a child’s preferred pronouns, the child’s preferred name, and support the child’s manner of dress.
Nineteen GOP state attorneys general have also written HHS on the matter.
Miller said on Washington Watch Tuesday that the Biden administration is out of touch with Americans.
“They have proven they don't care about children and they don't care about parents. They care about big government," she complained. "They have an agenda of total control, and they want people to be weak."
Miller said she’s already seen damaging effects in Illinois where Catholic-affiliated foster services have backed out of the program.
Miller also called out Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, who repeatedly refused to define "woman" in a heated exchange in April with Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Georgia).
Cardona was appearing before the House Appropriations Committee to defend proposed changes to Title IX, the 1972 federal education law. That legislation was hailed by feminists at the time for making huge progress for women in high school and college sports but today's liberal activists now want it to include men.
“These people are perverts. Every person in the Biden cabinet is just so radical," Rep. Miller complained. "They don't represent the American people."
