This is ridiculous. The religious freedom law signed by Indiana Governor Mike Pence has generated all sorts of outrage. But nobody is talking about the other 19 states that already have similar laws on the books, or the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act signed by former President Bill Clinton way back in the 1990’s.
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy is boycotting Indiana over the new law, even though his state has had its own RFRA on the books since 1993. The Connecticut law is almost identical to the one signed by Pence in Indiana.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is getting in on the action, trying to lure companies away from Indiana and to his city over the same issue. But again, Illinois also has a RFRA law, and Barack Obama voted for it when he was in the state senate.
Every day there is some new thing to be outraged over, and politicians trying to score points off of that outrage. It’s getting so old and tiresome. It would be nice if people would just calm down and take a breath.
On a related note, be sure to read Elizabeth Scalia’s take on the matter, regardless of which side you’re on. She raises some interesting questions.
so - the Gay Mafia will go after all the rest too.
It is all pre-emptive distraction. The real story is the democraps destroying the economy. You reported on it some time ago - the quotas for liar loans - here we go again.
in fact - that stuff deserves to be documented to the hilt.
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Your link to Scalia’s take was enlightening. She speaks of tolerance, a trait screamed for yet rarely exhibited by liberals. They are, as Ben Shapiro points out, Bullies.
What about the Kentucky T-Shirt company who realized an order they took was for the Gay Pride parade. They agreed to find another printer to do the same work for the same price, even if it cost them, but that was not good enough and they were punished. What about the couple who agreed to host a gay reception on their farm, but not the actual gay wedding ceremony? Forced to shut down.
As I try to make sense of it all, I recall that nonsensical condom question during the Romney debate and it hit me … it’s election season … and that is a game Dems have truly mastered in recent years.
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The far greater issue is that Christians in America in 2015 still need legal protections from their own government, even though that is enshrined in the First Amendment.
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Pence should retaliate in kind against Connecticut - and remind them that it is the Constitution State. As in the Bill of Rights, and Religious Freedom.
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