The response from the left is as expected.
‘May you hang by the ropes dead gay children used to kill themselves': Ted Cruz tweets support of Mike Pence
Posted on 03/30/2015 7:28:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican lawmakers in the Indiana House and Senate have said for months that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act enjoys large support among their constituents. Now, facing a political crisis unlike the state has ever seen before, the question must be asked: Why haven't those supporters spoken up?
Since Thursday, when Gov. Mike Pence signed the bill into law in a closed-door ceremony, the list of critics of Indiana's RFRA has expanded across the state and from coast to coast.
With the possible exception of Pence, who appeared on "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday defending the law, few people are as exasperated by the apparent silence of RFRA's supporters than Curt Smith, president of the Indiana Family Institute – self-described as one of RFRA's main architects.
"I consider it our biggest problem," Smith said. "These votes in the General Assembly are not polls, but when 83 percent of the Senate, and 63 percent of the House votes for a measure, you can have some confidence that it has broad support in Indiana."
Only five Republican lawmakers voted against the religious freedom law. No Democrats voted for it....
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
We are kowtowing to a bunch of filthy perverts
Their choice to hang themselves for choosing their perverted lifestyle. Mmmmmmkay.
We are kowtowing to a VERY SMALL MINORITY of filthy perverts.
Where are the men and women of conviction?!
They hang themselves because they’re mentally ill. Instead of getting help for them the left chooses to celebrate and use that illness.
I don’t know about anybody else, but I spent the entire day doing battle with the liberals on Politix.com. I’ve never encountered such hypocritical hatred in my life.
The conservatives could use some help over there.
Is that part of Topix?
I’ve been playing rope-a-dope on Twitter with libs using the #BoycottIndiana hashtag.
The Gaystapo Nazis have a lot of people who are normally decent people pissing in their drawers right now.
I don’t believe there really is that much support for the new law.
Not only is it fundamentally wrong in the view of most Americans, myself included, but it’s very unlikely to have any useful benefit in the lives of ordinary citizens.
It seems the whole purpose of this law is to provide an exemption to render service to the occasional florist or bakery that objects to gays being married. Is this really important? A useless, symbolic gesture that will quickly be struck down by the courts
the first time it’s tested.
“Where are the men and women of conviction?!”
Afraid of being called Bigots, homophobes, or whatever else insulting name the left media can come up with. “You aren’t one of THOSE hateful people, are you Mrs. Sheeple??!!”
Fascist-style intimidation tactics work, unfortunately, as history has proven and and again.
“I spent the entire day doing battle with the liberals on Politix.com. I’ve never encountered such hypocritical hatred in my life.”
I got into a snit with one of the big Daily Kos libs on twitter several days ago over the Indiana law.
My Twitter is STILL being pinged with hatred from some of her 14,000+ followers. Not a SINGLE one of them actually says anything to counter the facts, they just spew hate.
so you’re okay with the gay printer being forced to print up “God hates fags” or the black seamstress being required to sew up KKK robes. GOT IT. Cuts all ways you know. THINK.
I saw Pence on the Sunday ABC show and he was saying everything he could to convince the audience that this bill does NOTHING.
Asked specifically if this protects a flowerist who refuses to sell flowers for a gay wedding, Pence refused to answer and instead he kept saying that it doesn’t allow discrimination against gays, and he wouldn’t give a single example of what this bill is for.
So Dems are given easy targets in this fight: Jim Crowe, Selma, water fountains, back of bus, because no one is explaining the difference between those situations and this.
All the posts here at FR about bakers and photographers being persecuted and none of them, not Pence , has got the guts and ability to make a convincing case for them.
These battles are won long term by changing minds, thats what progressives do, that requires arguments and examples.
It is, but it is strictly political and national.
Time to round the little buggers up(LGBT)
Maybe you could hypothesize a situation that might actually apply to the issue at hand.
But since you want to invent this alternate universe scenario, let's then suppose that I am okay with it. We can let the courts decide if they want to force a printing company owned by gays to print “God hates fags” fliers or to force a black seamstress to sew up KKK robes and these companies using only the new Indiana law to support their side.
Personally, I'd like to see that play out. Perhaps you'd get your wish and this type of fiasco would be the catalyst that makes the Indiana law valid and Constitutional.
But my main point stands. I don't see this affecting more than a handful of the 300 million Americans and even those it does affect it doesn't even matter that much, except symbolically. To me it's not an issue.
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