31 states have heightened religious freedom protections
Posted on 03/27/2015 2:00:50 PM PDT by drewh
A number of Hollywood celebrities have taken aim at Indiana Gov. Mike Pence after the governor signed a religious objections bill into state law on Thursday.
Miley Cyrus, Ashton Kutcher, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, and Broadway star Audra McDonald were among those who took to social media Thursday to decry Gov. Pence’s signing of Senate Bill 101, which forbids both the state and federal government from limiting a persons’ ability to exercise their religion. Critics say the law will allow Indiana businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
“You’re an a**hole @govpenceIN,” Miley Cyrus wrote on Instagram Thursday. “The only place that has more idiots that [sic] Instagram is in politics.”
“Indiana are you also going to allow Christian establishments to ban Jews from coming in?” tweeted Ashton Kutcher. “Or vice versa? Religious freedom??? #OUTRAGE.”
Legendary Star Trek actor George Takei had promised to boycott Indiana if the law passed, and urged his online followers to avoid attending video game convention GenCon, the largest annual convention in the state.
“To the governor and to the legislators in Indiana who support this backward-looking and divisive bill, I say to you this: If it goes into effect, Indiana will be marked as a state where certain people are not welcome, and so we will not visit,” Takei wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “We will not spend. And we will not attend events, including GenCon, the world’s largest gaming convention, held in Indianapolis each year. Many fans here are gamers, Governor Pence, and we will demand the convention move out of your state.”
The convention is reportedly under contract to remain in Indiana until 2020, and GenCon spokeswoman told the Indianapolis Star that it will honor its contract. However, she said the law’s passage will “factor into future decisions.”
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Boo hoo! The homosexuals cannot use the power of the state to bully Christians.
Go Mike Pence!! Thank You!!! You made ALL the right enemies with this bill....YEAH!!!
I don’t think Miley or George Tacky were ever major factors in the state’s tourism industry to begin with.
Nothing to do with ‘bedroom’ but ‘stay out of my bakery.’
I have also lost all respect for George Takei since he has made his sexual identity the foremost aspect of his life and, to me, wants us to like him because he is homosexual, and not for the quality of his acting. Which I guess he quit when he became a “professional homosexual” a decade or more ago.
Finally saw one article mentioning that Indiana became the 20th state with such a law based on the federal statute. Wonder if they’ll be 19 more boycotts. Actually, 20, because another state is on its way.
If trash like Cyrus opposes it, then I’m for it.
Tempest in a teacup.
lol...
I must have prodded an UBER-LIB.
My twitter is absolutely BLOWING up with liberal hatred!
Miley Cyrus?!?!?!?
Ashton....who?...?!?!?!
Oh...it hurts...
Yeah wise words coming from Master of suspense
OMG hey they show Star Trek episode on ME TV with that Sulu with sword LOL!
METV been showing Star Trek on afternoon hours
OMG that worst than Harry Reid one leave Rod Serling episodes alone LOL!
Ah. So we should obey Hollyweird “stars” and not protect religious liberty and allow people to follow the teachings of Moses, Jesus, and Paul?
I see.
Tell ya what....let’s see if the Hollyweird “stars” can withstand 2,000 years.
I love how this new law is keeping all the sodomites and their worshipers out of the state.
A two-fer!
I think what the fags don’t seem to grasp is that states protecting religious freedom aren’t afraid of being boycotted by the perverts. I would much rather live in a state that discouraged sexual deviance than in one that welcomed it.
Stupid screed. If EVERBODY is wrong, then what’s the right position?
The bill in question merely puts Indiana in concert with probably 30 other states that want to keep people from being sued for practicing their religion. Neither Muslim nor Jewish meat markets should be required to sponsor a hog roast....
So of the people they say they are boycotting ..they must still sell /perform that service for the persons they say they are boycotting..you can boycott buying..but can not boycott selling ...right?...else you are hypocrites
So celebrities / performer / trained monkeys how's it feel to be a slave bound to preform for somebody that your conscience says you shouldn't...
I say hired one of these celebrity aholes..put them on stage and charge ten buck a pop to toss tomatoes and rotten egg at them.... Per there OWN STANDARD....they CAN NOT REFUSE the business..
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