Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Map at link.
1 posted on 03/28/2015 3:29:15 PM PDT by Salman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: Salman

Don’t give them any ideas, unless you want them to explode or go nuts!


2 posted on 03/28/2015 3:31:27 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman

Conservative states I expected but Connecticut and Rhode Island in gay friendly New England?


4 posted on 03/28/2015 3:35:24 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman

“miley cyrus weighed in”

that twit is about 60 pounds soaking wet...makes that comment kinda funny.


5 posted on 03/28/2015 3:38:24 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman

Didn’t the beloved godfather of the Democrats, Bill Clinton, sign a Freedom of Religion bill? Let’s hear some media supporter of Hillary ask her if she supports her husband’s bill.


6 posted on 03/28/2015 3:41:01 PM PDT by txrefugee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman

Such laws should not be necessary. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of association, as well as religious freedom and freedom of speech.


7 posted on 03/28/2015 3:44:11 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman

And other states will have similar laws soon. One passed in the Michigan house a while back but hasn’t been taken up by the senate yet.


8 posted on 03/28/2015 3:51:38 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman

Hmmmm...too bad my home State of AR doesn’t have it, but it is completely surrounded by other States that do. I noticed that Obama’s home State (IL? Kenya?) has it, too.


12 posted on 03/28/2015 4:11:35 PM PDT by Liberty1st
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman; All
As indicated in related threads, these religious freedom laws actually protect the states from violating the 14th Amendment as per the following explanation.

Pro-gay, PC interpretations of the 14th Amendment’s (14A) Equal Protections Clause (EPC) are arguably a litmus test for determining if somebody has actually read the Constitution or not. This is because Section 1 of 14A where the EPC is found also prohibits the states from making laws / policies which unreasonably abridge the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens.

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 [emphases added].

So since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay marriage for example, the states are free to make laws / policies which discriminate against constitutionally unprotected gay marriage imo, as long as such laws don’t also unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated rights.

On the other hand, low-information, pro-gay activist states have violated the 14th Amendment imo. This is because they are unthinkingly using equality policies to protect constitutionally unprotected gay “rights” in order to bully Christian business owners for example, owners who are protected by the 1st Amendment’s religious expression provision.

13 posted on 03/28/2015 4:11:52 PM PDT by Amendment10
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman

Not only that, there was a federal law like this....signed by Bill Clinton.


18 posted on 03/28/2015 4:51:29 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman

“Freedom” means you have a choice. Unfortunately, as we have discovered in the reign of Obama, liberals and democrats want to FORCE their beliefs on everyone else, which is a form of fascism.


20 posted on 03/28/2015 5:52:09 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman

They’re just feeling a little Pense-ive.


22 posted on 03/28/2015 9:44:40 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by government regulation.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman
19 states that have ‘religious freedom’ laws like Indiana’s that no one is boycotting

Do any of THEIR governors have a higher political ambition?

YA think this dustup might be POLITICAL in nature?

23 posted on 03/30/2015 5:00:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Salman

Darned ol' BIGOTS are EVERYWHERE!!!


24 posted on 03/30/2015 5:04:56 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson