Posted on 03/27/2015 12:26:12 PM PDT by drewh
How can they possibly play the Final Four without the assurance that they can violate the religious freedom of Christian bakers and florists in Indiana?
With the Final Four a week away from shining a spotlight on Indianapolis, NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday that the governing body for college sports is concerned about an Indiana law that could allow businesses to discriminate against gay people.
The law would prohibit state and local laws that “substantially burden” the ability of people — including businesses and associations — to follow their religious beliefs.
The NCAA offices are located in Indianapolis, and Emmert said the organization was concerned about how it might impact student athletes and employees. His terse statement also suggested the NCAA might consider moving future events out of Indianapolis.
“We will work diligently to assure student-athletes competing in, and visitors attending, next week’s Men’s Final Four in Indianapolis are not impacted negatively by this bill,” Emmert said, hours after Gov. Mark Pence signed the measure into law. “Moving forward, we intend to closely examine the implications of this bill and how it might affect future events as well as our workforce.”
Maybe Christians ought to do likewise when it comes to putting money in their pockets.
Anyone who disagrees with this law basically admits that they aren’t interested in “civil rights” for the homos, but in quashing the exercise of the Christian religion.
If there is so much money in queer wedding cakes, why don’t a couple of queers open their own bakery?
This law has screwed up my plan to visit a Halal restaurant, order a Ham and Bacon sandwich, and get filthy stinkin’ rich from the lawsuit.
I AM NOT PLEASED...
Were you going to try it at the Jewish deli also?
LOL…it won’t be easy herding all Americans into the gulags.
Post of the month!!!
Aw Geez, I hadn’t thought of that. It needs to be repealed NOW!
NCAA, if this bothers you so much, then don’t have the NCAA Women’s basketball tournament in Indiana.
[ This law has screwed up my plan to visit a Halal restaurant, order a Ham and Bacon sandwich, and get filthy stinkin’ rich from the lawsuit.
I AM NOT PLEASED... ]
The ghost of Robert Byrd is also miffed that he cannot float into a Jewish Sculptor’s Studio and order a bust of Adolph...
Simple solution for the homos: Just don’t go to Christian bakeries!
Start your own homo bakeries then!
Oh yeah, your cakes might have ‘special sauce and additives’ in the dough if homos ran the place...
Good to see the NCAA still is royally screwed up.
Die creature; die!
Interesting that the NCAA uses the word “assure” rather than “ensure”.
Now maybe they aren’t to gud at English, but the word “assure” conveys that they know there isn’t any sort of issue with this law in the context the handwringers are whining about. IOW no general discrimination on the basys of sexual orientation.
He was always 3 sheets to the wind, anyway.
Packer’s Fudge Bakery & Confectioner
It has nothing to do with religion. It’s a freedom issue. If an anti-gun business turns away a gay person with a gun on their hip, are they anti-gay?
There is no such thing as “gay marriage” so it’s not a “gay” issue.
Well, tell you what, since the NCAA is so interested in assertive rights, and imposing viewpoints on others, how about we invite ISIS over to show the NCAA their option for dealing with homosexuals? Or their treatment of women?
Honestly, I'm not sure WHO this law affects. A gay couple might be thrown out of a restaurant for dogging it in the bathroom? Pretty sure that option existed before. Some florist or wedding photographer refuses to participate in a gay wedding? Well, yeah, see - that's where this whole thing comes down to. Can a gay person force someone to participate in something they don't believe in?
Before the law, most likely. After the law, probably not. Like ANYONE would seriously want someone who doesn't want to bake a cake for homosexuals shacking up? Or someone photographing the ‘ceremony’ who thinks it's sick? Do you REALLY want that around you?
All this law does is restore civility. ‘I want you to make a cake for my gay ceremony.’ ‘No.’ ‘Okie, I'll find someone else.’ rather than the current ‘Do it or I'll destroy your business using the government to enforce my beliefs on you.’
The politicians and the governor who passed this law have done a horrible job at controlling the message. They are allowing the gay activists to claim it means whatever they say it means. If they were going to pass such a bill, they should have known the media and gay activists would have an organized campaign to distort their message.
They should have had their own messaging campaign ready to roll. Instead, they are on the defensive and not even doing much of that.
Conservatives need to understand their enemy.
Well, that means most of the women’s basketball players are out of luck in Indiana I guess.
American history tells us that those in the slave territory South religiously accepted slavery.
It took a Civil War to tell them they were wrong.
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