Posted on 04/01/2015 3:08:32 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Mayor Bill de Blasio excoriated a controversial Indiana religious freedom law, telling reporters today that it is “deeply disturbing” and “doomed to failure.”
Following the lead of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mr. de Blasio also said he would ban non-essential city travel to the Hoosier State.
“It’s a deeply disturbing reality right now in Indiana and I hope before it’s too late, they turn back,” Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, said at an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn. He promised that the law, which critics say will allow businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, will backfire on the Republican-led state.
“Absolutely, I will instruct all New York City agencies to prohibit any non-essential travel to the State of Indiana,” he continued. “This proposal [in] Indiana really undercuts decades and decades of progress on human rights and civil rights in this country. The notion that a government would allow a version of discrimination undercuts so much of what we fought for.”
“I also know it’s doomed to failure,” he added. “Any effort to exclude or discriminate ultimately proves to be against the will of the people.”
When pressed by the Observer on what city travel to Indiana is ever essential, Mr. de Blasio, using the example of his announcement of $3 billion in federal aid to Hurricane Sandy-damaged public housing, said there could be certain companies the city must work with that are out of state. “There [could] be a company we have to work with to achieve this resiliency effort, it’s necessary to go there to achieve something … that’s essential travel.”
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has faced backlash from businesses, elected officials and celebrities over his support of the law, known formally as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and said today he would seek to change and clarify the measure by week’s end. He still defended the law, however, and claimed politicians and the press misunderstood it.
Communists and Nazis have been saying that for years.
A fairly good synopsis of this ‘controversial’ law-———http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=229977
You deal with the Left by standing your ground, not accepting their premise, and let them stew in their own juices. Obviously, Pence have not learned from Mr. Cathy of Chick-fil-A and the Robertsons.
Can anyone here quote the language alleged to be unacceptably offensive?
The Left simply want Christians punished for opposing gay wedding. You can’t have an opposing view
What is essential travel for a city trough-swiller?
“In the end they will lose.”
Yea, but they might blow up the planet trying...
But,Apple and Walmart can use children and slave labor to make their products!
People like this now call the shots. They won.
Read my tagline,
Be more specific. Don't leave them, um, ... hanging. Or maybe do.
A Jerk is a jerk, we all agree,
Especially one of such degree,
that is of course, unless the jerk,
Is the famous Billy D!
Go right to the berk and ask that jerk.
He’ll give you the answer that you’ll soon shirk.
He’s always talking as if in a murk.
Talk to Billy D!
STFU Mayor DeBiaso.
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Let there be no doubt as the godless sodomites and their god denying democrat (in name only) party supporters who’ve through the guileful use of “political correctness” have declared war particularly on Christianity as well most religions.
Through miss chacterizing the defence of religion act as “bigotry” and then demand every one goose step to their agenda through the use of the device known as “political correctness” .Thus surrender your faith or freedom of choices to object and become a subject of government.
Hopefully it isn't really a backtrack by Pence. He, and the rest of us know that politicians and the press didn't misunderstand it - they deliberately twisted it so they could claim bigotry while ignoring their own. I would hope he merely has it restated so they haven't a loose chunk of meat to sink their foul teeth into.
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