Posted on 04/27/2016 7:12:09 PM PDT by Innovative
GOP Gov. Bill Haslam cites law’s requirements for referrals, helping at-risk individuals.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed a law Wednesday that allows professional counselors to use personally held principles as reasons to refuse clients and refer them on, projecting his state into the national debate over measures affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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But you have to bake them a cake?
I don’t even like the “referring” part, unless it’s to overcome their sexual deviancy.
Our TN Gov did this ???
Did he have a stroke recently or something ???
What have the aliens done to my Gov ???
sooo a business that provides public service such as legal council can refuse based on someone’s beliefs, but a public business that makes cakes can’t? Why is one public business exempt and another isn’t? Who decides which public businesses are exempt and which ones aren’t? Is it subjective? Well obviously it is- there is no objective law- it all apparently is determined by whichever social persuasion a judge has?
We’re told judges are supposed to be impartial- but obviously they aren’t- therefore people are treated differently depending o n their belief
If someone has a personal issue with someone gay, how could they help them in counseling? This makes sense.
Uh Oh, Bruce Springsteen won’t concert there anymore.
Now the bakers' legal counsel can quote a precedent.
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