Indiana Gov. signs "religious freedom" bill into law

The governor specifically mentioned Notre Dame and that the Catholic school didn't think it should have to pay for birth control for employees if it's against what the religion believes.

Taking that logic next step, Notre Dame should kick out every student and athlete it finds to have engaged in premarital sex or used birth control. That's only fair, since it's against Notre Dame's religion and all.

The NCAA is based in Indianapolis, has two out of every three Final Fours there and is making some noise. I hope this really comes back to bite those bitter, close-minded assholes hard.

 

Do you think all Christians are close-minded assholes? Or just all Catholics?

 

If the rest of us think something's OK, then by God we're going to pass a law to make sure you backwards-ass simpletons go along.

 

... and all you backwards-ass religious folks are going to do that exactly the way we tell you.

 

I bring it up because there is an inherent hypocrisy with what religious freedom means in this country. Indiana passes a law so a Christian establishment can deny service to a gay couple citing religious objection. Hobby Lobby successfully wins in court to deny birth control based on religious objection. In Oklahoma, however, the state legislature passed a law stating Sharia law is expressly forbidden. So the natural extension to this would be what if a Muslim establishment (a print shop because it as already been brought up) denied a group service to print brochures to protest a new mosque from being build in their city? Or what if a business said all female employees had to wear head scarves, citing religious beliefs? Would the law offer the Muslim business owner the same protection?

Personally, this is just an end around to push discrimination on to people and it needs to be quashed. I don't care how you worship, where you worship or if you require animal sacrifice to worship so long as we all treat each other as humans inside an outside of your church/synagogue/mosque/temple/or where ever.

 

Yankeefan and Dick must be in the box. This should be 6 pages by now.

 

That is only a valid argument if said Jewish writer was making anti-Semitic materials for non-Muslims. If he doesn't produce the materials for anyone, he's fine. If he does it for everyone but the Muslim he's discriminating.

 

This. Anyone can refuse service for a variety of reasons. It's refusing service to a specific group of people, when doing the same for others, that is the problem.

 

No. Just anyone who supported this bill. Notre Dame is just hypocritical.

 

The Indiana statute doesn't come close to saying what you say it says. It simply says that someone who feels his/her religious freedoms are being substantially burdened by some governmental action, has the right to raise a religious freedom defense. In other words, you can go to court and SEE if you can get the court to agree with you.

Secondly Hobby Lobby did not win the right to "deny birth control." It won the right to not be forced to pay for certain forms of birth control.

 

Imagine if he was Governor of California.

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However, I am always amazed that what a law says doesn't mean nearly as much as how it is chosen to be enforced or not.