Posted on 04/01/2015 3:03:36 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Connecticut's governor is blasting the governor of Indiana for signing the state's controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, calling it discriminatory against the gay community and asking for its repeal.
The Indiana measure, which Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) signed last week, prohibits state laws that "substantially burden" a person's ability to follow his or her religious beliefs. The definition of "person" includes religious institutions, businesses and associations.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday that the law is covering "outright bigotry" in Indiana.
"The reality is, the governor is not a stupid man, but he’s done stupid things. And signing this law and, quite frankly, promoting this law, knowing exactly what it was going to do, was an incredibly stupid thing for him to do," Malloy told MSNBC. "But even there, if you get the picture from who was around him when he signed this bill, there were three homophobic men standing alongside the governor. One of them who equated being gay with bestiality. That’s who he invited to the signing ceremony. He knew exactly what he was doing, and when you see a bigot you have to call him on it."
"When it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it is a duck. And they knew what they were doing. What they were doing was making it legal for people who were deciding they weren’t going to serve gay men and women," he added.
Socially conservative groups accused Malloy of not understanding that Connecticut also has a freedom of religion statute, similar to what was enacted in Indiana.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcconnecticut.com ...
Doesn’t his state have a similar law?
Malloy is a hypocrite and liar. But that’s nothing new for a scumbag Democrat.
Bigotry in Connecticut since 1993 ? D’oh
...of course there are still a few room temperature IQ people that think Obamacare is a good idea.
“Bigotry” is-a very, very tall-a tree in Italy.
And delusion is a river in Egypt.
It’s not discriminatory to Gays ... NOT HAVING THE LAW is discriminatory towards Christians and their deeply-held convictions!
Well, to tell you what I’ve thought about this legislation, all along, is that it’s the “gay issue” that brought it out ... BUT ... it’s not JUST about gays, but preventing Christian business owners from being forced into do several things that they consider to be VIOLATIONS of deeply-held religious convictions!
I posted elsewhere ...
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To me, this kind of legislation seems to have a lot more to do with OTHER THINGS, other than gays. It seems that the “gay issue” is driving the discussion, but to me, that “gay issue” seems to be a minor point, as compared to ALL of what legislation guaranteeing “Christian Conscience” in business is about.
Unless I’m mistaken about what this kind of bill means, I see this bill as preserving the “conscience” of a Christian owner of a business from serving or doing business with a person who violates that “religious conscience” by who they are or what they represent or what they stand for. SO, in that sense, it is NOT TARGETED at gays, but all sorts of other things that would violate the “Christian’s conscience”!
A sampling of some other things I can think of, in which one would DENY SERVICE to people, would be a group coming in for Pizza who supports ABORTION! That would really violate a Christian’s conscience.
Or, if a Mormon church group came in and had an “after church Pizza gathering” some Sunday afternoon. I would DENY THEM SERVICE as they are one of the largest CULT GROUPS in America ... and as far as I’m concerned Mormons shouldn’t get service from ANY CHRISTIAN BUSINESS WHATSOEVER, ANYWHERE!!
If Mitt Romney were to come in to that Pizza place he SHOULD BE DENIED SERVICE because of clearly being a Mormon!
I would DENY SERVICE to GLENN BECK, too, for his Mormonism!
SO ... it doesn’t appear to be a “gay issue” but a VERY REAL “Religious Conscience” issue and opens the door to CHRISTIAN BUSINESS to serving Christians and not VIOLATING their religious conscience!
A private business should have the right to refuse to do business with anyone, for any reason.
Let the marketplace decide. If a business wants to turn a way business, that’s their decision. That’s money they won’t make. And if someone wants to boycott them, fine. That’s free speech.
I dont know the formal name of that law, but the religious freedom restoration act?
The one Indiana and Arkansas were trying to implement?
It was supposed to PROTECT Christians, not brand us a TARGETS!
Our nation has fallen, we have abandoned God...
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Judg 21:25 In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.
Zip your lip and keep to your own business.
will Malloy start closing churches since he doesn’t believe in Religious Freedom???
Even without these religious freedom laws; we should have the right to discriminate against any deviant lifestyle. Don't people non-violently discriminate against pansexuallity, polyamory, bestiality, pedophilia, etc.? Non-violent discrimination against deviant lifestyles is a good thing!
Nobody is born being homosexual; it has never been scientifically proven. In fact, just the opposite is true – IT IS A CHOICE! We have not only lost this premise, now people believe the premise that bisexuality is OK. Soon, we will lose the premise on polysexuallity, polyamory, bestiality, pedophilia, etc.
Frankly, IMO, we started to lose the premise that discrimination against indecent behavior was good when Americans began to accept sexuality outside the bond of a monogamous heterosexual marriage between one man and one woman for life.
Very good point!
I notice one thing that is happening -— Democrats ( O’Malley, de Blasio, Hillary, the MSM, Tim Cook, Walmart, etc. ) are all tag teaming to attack RFRA on one side.
On the other side, I don’t see ANY UNITED FRONT from Christians, Conservatives and Republicans defending the law.
How do you expect to win the fight when you allow the other side to throw all the kicks and punches and you simply try to duck for cover?
Or is it the case that you’ve surrendered already?
Where is the Daniel who will dare to stand for what is right in the face of danger?
I’m hoping it’s Ted Cruz.
The bigotry is the GAYSTAPO demanding Christian businesses to serve them ....
I expect we might here something about this law and the reactionary outcry against...from Sen Ted Cruz before very long.
If a bar refuses to serve a drunk — is the bar owner a bigot?
If a daycare refuses to hire a child molester — is the daycare owner a bigot?
If a preacher refuses to officiate over a three person wedding — is the preacher a bigot?
Soros' talking points to the DNC outstrips US laws...
RE: If a bar refuses to serve a drunk — is the bar owner a bigot?
If a daycare refuses to hire a child molester — is the daycare owner a bigot?
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Notice how these people are protected — they object to the BEHAVIOR of those they refuse to serve. If these folks BEHAVED, they would have been served.
Same principle should apply to gays.
It is not their being gay that’s the problem, it’s their forcing people to participate in a BEHAVIOR Christians object to that’s the problem.
The law should protect Christians from PARTICIPATING in a BEHAVIOR that is against their religious beliefs. THAT is what RFRA is all about.
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