Indiana Takes On (Liberal...) America - HuffPo screeches gay discrimination, the usual argument when they've lost.

[Ethan]

The easy part is over. Americans now understand what the Indiana
"Religious Freedom" law was intended to do: legalize
discrimination by private businesses against homosexuals. It's
not a secret, as Eric Miller of Advance America said. Indiana
acted "to help protect churches, Christian businesses and
individuals from those who want to punish them because of their
Biblical beliefs! Christian businesses and individuals deserve
protection from those who support homosexual marriages. A
Christian business should not be punished for refusing to allow
a man to use the women's restroom!"

Anti-gay bias and intent to discriminate are itself reasons to
oppose the new law. But there's much more at stake. The
organized Right is re-writing the Constitution and the impact
will not be limited to gay Americans.

The supporters of the Indiana law are more diverse,
intellectually capable, and more widely found across America
than we think. Nineteen states have such laws, and not just the
Old Confederacy. Liberal Rhode Island has one. The Indiana
Catholic Conference supported the law (It "is very important to
secure its passage"). The Indiana legislature considered it
carefully, had hearings and received pages of testimony from
distinguished legal scholars. (The Bill and the Testimony can be
found at: The Bill; The Testimony )

There are elements of their argument that most Americans would
support. We widely accept that religious organizations and
places of worship should be free to practice what they believe.
Should a church have to marry people outside its faith and
beliefs? Should a Catholic church be legally required to perform
a same-sex marriage? Should an Orthodox shul or a mosque be
legally required to hire female rabbis and imams? Probably not.

It makes you think. Most Americans would say that some laws,
even good ones, don't apply inside a place of worship. If that
is all the Indiana law did, it would not have stirred up the
current commotion.

But Indiana went well beyond that. The law extends the inside-
the-church exemption to commercial enterprises. Business
corporations get the same protection that a church gets.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-brodsky/indiana-takes-on-
america_b_6964700.html

And you faggots don't like it that somebody finally stood up to
you and said enough is enough.

[David Hartung]

On 03/29/2015 04:41 PM, Ethan wrote:
> But Indiana went well beyond that. The law extends the inside-
> the-church exemption to commercial enterprises. Business
> corporations get the same protection that a church gets.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-brodsky/indiana-takes-on-
> america_b_6964700.html
>
> And you faggots don't like it that somebody finally stood up to
> you and said enough is enough.

Good point.

[Sn...@smack.com]

So it IS about discrimination, not equality?

Thanks for that admission

[Bill Steele]

In article <3hdhhalivq31v65p1...@4ax.com>

Nope, it's about gay child molesters getting a steel spike
driven into the heart of their agenda.