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White House slams Indiana religious freedom law amid Obama hypocrisy criticism
The Washington Times ^ | March 29, 2015 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 03/29/2015 8:38:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Indiana’s religious freedom law drew an attack Sunday from the White House even though Indiana Republicans say President Obama voted in favor of similar legislation as an Illinois state senator in 1998.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest didn’t deny that Mr. Obama voted to pass the Illinois Religious Freedom Restoration Act but said the Indiana law appears to “legitimize discrimination.”

“When you have a law like this one in Indiana that seems to legitimize discrimination, it’s important for everybody to stand up and speak out,” Mr. Earnest said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Meanwhile, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a Republican who signed the bill last week, came out swinging Sunday against what he described as an “avalanche of intolerance” aimed at the legislation, which gay rights organizations say allows discrimination based on religious convictions against homosexuality. The law has led to numerous actual and threatened boycotts of the state, even though the federal government and 19 other states have such laws....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; indiana; mikepence; obama; pence; rfra
Of course.
1 posted on 03/29/2015 8:38:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The regime did not approve of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 either.
_ _ _ _ em and the horse they rode in on,


2 posted on 03/29/2015 8:43:16 PM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...it's important for everybody to stand up and speak out..."

What if not everybody stands up and speaks out?

3 posted on 03/29/2015 8:44:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Islamocommie and that pillow-biting mayor of Seattle


4 posted on 03/29/2015 8:45:17 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where are other Republicans on this issue? Why are they all silent? The whole thing is ridiculous. Nobody is asking someone if he or she is homosexual before selling him or her a cookie. Christians are just refusing to participate in a ceremony that goes against the Bible.

When it comes down to it, though, if we are not free to discriminate with whom we associate or do business, then we are not free. Yes, even based on race. Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams agree on this. Businesses who discriminate lose some business, paying the price for their choices, but government has no right to outlaw it.


5 posted on 03/29/2015 8:57:19 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/03/283057-21-problems-national-outcry-indianas-religious-freedom-law-one-map/?source=FBshare


6 posted on 03/29/2015 8:58:55 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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Without the facebook share tag.

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/03/283057-21-problems-national-outcry-indianas-religious-freedom-law-one-map/


7 posted on 03/29/2015 8:59:51 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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GOP
8 posted on 03/29/2015 9:00:51 PM PDT by baddog 219
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Ha, ha... wait, that’s not funny. :-(


9 posted on 03/29/2015 9:01:28 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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10 posted on 03/30/2015 5:05:58 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Exactly! If it is a private business, you have to abide by their rules. I mentioned in another thread that a (very good) restaurant down the street from me requires that you have no religous artifacts showing when you dine there. No Yamaka’s (sp), no crosses on a necklace, etc. It turns out that the owner had enough of Religous bickering at his restaurant and made this a rule years ago. People complained and “banned” his place. I’ve eatem there a few times. Very good food and packed nightly so... Whatever. Don’t have to like it.

I personally think he must have had a bone to pick with someone but this has been a rule for almost a decade.


11 posted on 03/30/2015 11:12:05 AM PDT by Snark
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

the financially in trouble angie’s list decided to do self promoting excuses as to why they could not build a new HQ.

This was her excuse and it is utter BS.

Do not pay for angie’s list and watch the company continue to be downgraded.

This BS is about giving the sexual fetish behavior a protected status. Thus ANY sex act other than normal couples will be a “special protected class” by their mere sexual orgasm methodology.


12 posted on 03/30/2015 11:16:20 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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