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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It turns out the Constitution’s Equal Protections Clause (14A), which activist judges and state officials are twisting to promote constitutionally unprotected gay agenda issues like gay marriage to bully Christians, is found is the same section of the 14th Amendment which prohibits the states from making laws / policies which unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, such as 1st Amendment-protected religious expression.
14th Amendment, Section 1:All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws [emphasis added].
The states who have bullied Christians over gay issues have violated the 14th Amendment imo.
Note that the Religious Freedom Act not only protects religious expression, but it also makes it more difficult for Indiana state officials to unthinkingly violate 14A like the pro-gay activist states have.
Meanwhile, Arab and African countries stone, behead, and burn people to death for homosexual acts. yet homosexual activists seem to direct all of their venom towards white conservative Christians.
You'd think that being burned to death would be a greater cause for outrage than being refused a cake, but what do I know?
Miley Cyrus brings to mind the term “trailer trash.”
Liberals screech when govt gets involved in their lives, and also in the case like this, when it gets out of peoples’ lives.
Liberals are just lawless implacable people.
its was Rush choice to hire , it was Elton Johns choice to accept the job
Does any one content John should of been required by law to accept the job if he objected to working for Rush?
A liberal would say no because Elton is a liberal.
A conservative would say no because they believe Elton has freedom of association and a right to refuse service to someone they don’t want to work for.
Unless the Sangria is Sangria Senioral, Mexican soft drink that is alcohol free, yet tastes like red wine.
Yeah, but The Adventures of Superman and Emergency! are a little more enjoyable to me.
It’s an understatement to say just killed. It’s complete Open Season on Homosexuals in the Middle East, including mob justice. Whereas if I did the same thing here in the U.S., I would be charged with murder and prosecuted with murder.
So how is it different if a Christian singer does not want to preform at a Gay “marriage”?..... its not different
So the performer are beings hypocrites because they say you should not allow to not provide a service you offer on any grounds
Even the Federal government acknowledges religious grounds of conscientious objectors for things like military drafts
So the performer are beings hypocrites because they are saying you should not be allowed to not provide a service you offer on ANY grounds
Even the Federal government acknowledges religious grounds of conscientious objectors for things like military drafts
Don’t worry they keeping that on I don’t think their time change on that so far April schedule is saying Superman and Emergency still there
They need to use this picture whenever they publish stories about Indiana’s religious freedom bill.
That’s a perfect picture.
The photo includes nuns, monks, a priest & a rabbi.
Somebody’s bound to complain about the lack of inclusiveness.
Yet homosexual activists hate the United States but love the "oppressed" peoples of Africa and the Middle East. I guess being denied a wedding cake is so much worse than being burned alive or stoned to death. You also never heard any homosexual activist ever complain about Maoist China, Communist Russia, or Castro's Cuba where (at least until recently) homos were rounded up in detention camps. Once again, first things first, being made fun of or denied services at a private business is obviously much more "oppressive" than being put into a concentration camp.
Pardon me for asking...but WHY? Besides the Indianapolis 500 and the NASCAR at the Brickyard...what does Indiana have that is worth visiting?
Perhaps some Indiana FReepers can answer this for me. Only rode through there once in 1977, on a Greyhound bus, and never left the Indiana Turnpike.
Then you were within a thousand yards of some of the most beautiful fresh water lakes in the US.
I have a cottage in Indiana.....one hour door to door.
PS....the best part about rural Ind.....is that the amish are really amish....
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