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And assuming Indiana's law does not allow this, then it's not a religious freedom law. It's a Christian privilege law, which is clearly unconstitutional and morally unfair.
Last week, Governor Mike Pence of Indiana signed into law the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Almost immediately, an uproar ensued, claiming that the law was discriminatory — that it provided a license for businesses to discriminate against gay and lesbian customers. Entirely lost in this kerfuffle has been the simple fact that the Indiana law is modeled on the 1993 federal law of the same name, and that counterparts have been adopted in 19 other states. Further, four federal courts of appeals and the Obama Justice Department have all taken the position that RFRA can be used as a defense in private suits involving the enforcement of laws that substantially burden free exercise of religion. Important debates over the intersection of faith and equality are impaired when they are overtaken by misguided rhetoric, rather than being informed by the history and context of how our legal system has treated this issue.
I don't need to read any of this to know what the law means. Seeing Pence choke on his spit six times when asked by Stephanopoulos whether the law allows discrimination, is all I need to know that the law allows discrimination.
I just hope it causes Pence and the Indiana GOP to sweat.
Why? Pence and Indiana aren't executing gays. The countries in which Apple does business and supports their products execute gays. Any wrath should be directed at Apple, which silently acquiesces to the execution of gays.
. Entirely lost in this kerfuffle has been the simple fact that the Indiana law is modeled on the 1993 federal law of the same name, and that counterparts have been adopted in 19 other states. Further, four federal courts of appeals and the Obama Justice Department have all taken the position that RFRA can be used as a defense in private suits involving the enforcement of laws that substantially burden free exercise of religion.
Washington (CNN)Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is set to sign into law a measure that allows businesses to turn away gay and lesbian customers in the name of "religious freedom."
The move comes as Pence considers a bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination -- and just a year after Pence and socially conservative lawmakers lost their first policy battle against gay Hoosiers. In 2014 they had sought to amend Indiana's constitution to ban same-sex marriages -- but were beaten back by a highly-organized coalition of Democrats, traditionally right-leaning business organizations and fiscally focused supporters of Pence's predecessor, former GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels.
Where does this law allow people to arbitralily discriminate against customer simply because they are gay?
This is just political partisan garbage; think of the most obsure scenario posible, then, for political gain, just claim it is the function and purpose of the law.
Ask Tim Cook. He injected himself and Apple into the controversy. In doing so, Cook exposed Apple's horrendous hypocrisy of publicly condemning what amounts to no more than a retail/service choice law in Indiana but quietly acquiescing to the execution of gays in the countries in which they do business or service their products.
Because this whole issue is just a political game to these people.
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