When Bigotry and Prejudice Prevail...

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Some celebrate the following announcement by Pence. It is those who, without considering the potential bigotry and prejudice this law indirectly supports, may someday be subject to like bigotry and prejudice.

This bill is not about religious freedom and the right of Hoosiers to chose their faith and how they worship. They already have that and it is guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America and their state constitution.

Rather this law is about allowing businesses to deny equal patronage to those they disapprove of; simply out of bigotry and prejudice.

This is NOT anything the inhabitants of Indian should be proud of. But there is a creeping religous insurgency trying to change America from a truly secular state into a theocratic one. Tell me, what is the difference with Islam? Anybody?


Indianapolis – Governor Mike Pence today issued the following statement after signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SEA 101) in a private ceremony.

“Today I signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, because I support the freedom of religion for every Hoosier of every faith.

“The Constitution of the United States and the Indiana Constitution both provide strong recognition of the freedom of religion but today, many people of faith feel their religious liberty is under attack by government action.

“One need look no further than the recent litigation concerning the Affordable Care Act. A private business and our own University of Notre Dame had to file lawsuits challenging provisions that required them to offer insurance coverage in violation of their religious views.

“Fortunately, in the 1990s Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act—limiting government action that would infringe upon religion to only those that did not substantially burden free exercise of religion absent a compelling state interest and in the least restrictive means.

“Last year the Supreme Court of the United States upheld religious liberty in the Hobby Lobby case based on the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but that act does not apply to individual states or local government action. At present, nineteen states—including our neighbors in Illinois and Kentucky—have adopted Religious Freedom Restoration statutes. And in eleven additional states, the courts have interpreted their constitutions to provide a heightened standard for reviewing government action.

“In order to ensure that religious liberty is fully protected under Indiana law, this year our General Assembly joined those 30 states and the federal government to enshrine these principles in Indiana law, and I fully support that action.

“This bill is not about discrimination, and if I thought it legalized discrimination in any way in Indiana, I would have vetoed it. In fact, it does not even apply to disputes between private parties unless government action is involved. For more than twenty years, the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act has never undermined our nation’s anti-discrimination laws, and it will not in Indiana.

“Indiana is rightly celebrated for the hospitality, generosity, tolerance, and values of our people, and that will never change. Faith and religion are important values to millions of Hoosiers and with the passage of this legislation, we ensure that Indiana will continue to be a place where we respect freedom of religion and make certain that government action will always be subject to the highest level of scrutiny that respects the religious beliefs of every Hoosier of every faith.”

For more reading on this story find it HERE, and HERE.

Via: Memeorandum

Comments

  1. "..challenging provisions that required them to offer insurance coverage in violation of their religious views." HobbyLobby and their ilk provide vasectomies and Viagra, but have apoplexy with birth
    control pills. Any idea of their biblical basis, or are they just stupid?

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  2. And we further note:
    "Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen, who is a Republican if you can believe that, suggested this week (while explaining her vote for a bill that would allow people to carry guns basically everywhere) that Arizona lawmakers should debate a bill to force citizens to attend church on Sunday" Is religion becoming an excuse for crazy?

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    1. BB: I support one of his ideas. I oppose the other, strongly. Guess which ones.

      (sorry, Sylvia. BOTH the First and Second Amendments are important)

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  3. The difference between the two types of theocrat you mention are of degree of extremism. but not the fundamentals of this.

    Yes, I agree with you on this 100%.

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  4. When the state of Indiana starts losing convention business, money will trump scripture.

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