Indiana's SB-101 RFRA | chapter 9 section 7 of the law defines a person as:
"..which under the law includes not only an individual but also any organization, partnership, LLC, corporation, company, firm, church, joint-stock company, an unincorporated association, religious society, or any other entity.."
Mike Pence, Then and Now By Taegan Goddard | March 31, 2015
Mike Pence 2000 campaign:
The Pence Agenda for the 107th Congress:
A Guide to Renewing the American Dream
• Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexual’s as a "discreet and insular minority" entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities.
Pence today covering his retreat with craven
dissembling:
"I don't believe for a minute that it was the intention of the general assembly to create a license to discriminate or a right to deny service to gays, lesbians, or anyone else in this state. And it certainly wasn't my intent."
source: 'All In w/Chris Hayes' | March 31,2015
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North Dakota Senate considers anti-sexual orientation discrimination bill By: Christina Craig | March 30, 2015
currently:
For example, currently in the state, someone of a different sexual preference could be denied business from a store owner or be terminated from their workplace.
People want an end to bigotry masquerading as religious freedom and are fighting to that end:
FARGO, N.D. Hundreds are rallying against an Indiana law that has caused uproar -- one that allows businesses to refuse service to customers based on their sexual orientation. It's been a heated discussion for North Dakota lawmakers who are taking on a bill that would do the opposite.
This is the third time an anti-sexual orientation discrimination bill has passed the North Dakota Senate. Some are hoping this time around, the bill will pass the house vote.
Yet:
North Dakota House Committee gives do not pass recommendation to sexual orientation anti-discrimination bill by Don Haney | March 31, 2015
The North Dakota House Human Services Committee has voted not to endorse a bill to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Tuesday, the committee, on an 11- 2 vote, gave it a do not pass recommendation.
One of the bill's prime sponsors, Representative Josh Boschee of Fargo, the state's first openly gay legislator, tells KFGO News he's disappointed but not surprised.
TPM: How Conservatives Hijacked 'Religious Freedom' By Amanda Marcotte Published March 31, 2015
Bully's; too afraid to come near honesty:
Pence’s maddening dishonesty might be fueling the rage: Lying plus bigotry is a toxic combination.
But there’s another factor that’s helping push this past the tipping point of “another story about conservative bigotry” to national scandal. Liberals are getting fed up with this ridiculous conservative push to redefine “religious liberty” to mean its opposite, using it as a phrase to justify Christian conservatives forcing their religious beliefs on you and depriving you of basic religious freedom.
TPM: Reminder: We’ve Used ‘Religious Liberty’ For Discrimination Before By Ed Kilgore Published March 31, 2015
With a bit of history on Goldwater and republican "conservatism" that nails the connections to the past, though is a bit too clinical when describing bigotry and racism without directly naming either one - imo:
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became an unavoidable and imminent reality, conservatives—not all of them southerners—executed a strategic retreat, accepting the demolition of de jure segregation but defending de facto segregation via private action.
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Like southern “Christian” segregationists in the recent past, today’s politicized conservative Christians are executing a strategic retreat into an allegedly private sphere where they are on stronger ground in resisting anti-discrimination policies. They intensely dislike the parallels on the grounds that hostility to gay rights and/or same-sex marriage in deeply entrenched in their faith, or in the case of conservative evangelicals, in the Bible.
That is exactly what the segregationists said as well, of course. It is not hard to foresee a day when the tortured efforts of religious leaders to stitch together a few culture-bound passages into an eternal condemnation of homosexuality (or for that matter, abortion, which is virtually invisible in Scripture) will look just as absurd and embarrassing as yesterday’s thundering sermons on black people being consigned to submission by the Curse of Ham. And then maybe the strategic retreat into efforts to hang onto discrimination via protestations of “religious liberty” will look less sympathetic as well.
- emphasis added
Goldwater in 1964; a republican refrain as familiar as it is ugly and wrong today:
Just as importantly, Goldwater and many others were engaged in an effort to depict discriminators as victims of government overreach simply wanting to live their lives according to their religiously informed consciences.
- emphasis added
source:
Rachel Maddow video segment March 31, 2015
Yes Rubio, that is exactly what you and every last one of you republican wanna-be-president rwnj Christianists are saying, but too chickenshit to come out and just say it plain.
- republican "leadership" in action - unfit, spineless, bigoted and nothing new
with much thanks to Big Ed Schultz and team for rounding up sources and for putting up with Ryan Anderson from the white supremacist Heritage Foundation who I will not link to
- with an apology for my sparse writing. Usually I take too many words to describe a thing. After reading over what I wrote down, my anger came out as borderline indecent. It was best delete most of it
- thanks for stopping by - time to turn in