Coulter: Republicans Have Responded ‘Very Badly’ to Religious Freedom ‘Nonsense Story’

Breitbart ^ | 04/04/2015 | Jeffrey Poor

[E. Pluribus Unum]

On Saturday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” conservative commentator Ann Coulter criticized Republican politicians, particular the potential candidates for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination, for their responses to the controversy surrounding Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

According to Coulter, it shouldn’t be up liberals to dictate what Republicans react to and she cited a litany of so-called “fake stories.”

[Mr. Jeeves]

Republican politicians believe in nothing, so the slightest breeze sends them flapping like cheap flags.

[x]

I don't think that's what she's saying.

Read article.

[Dutchboy88]

Well, your idea is good. The sense I get from looking around is that the world is too complex and too close to allow a sort of “everyman for himself” view. You don’t want a pig farm next door...why not? You don’t want the man who owns the factory to force everyone to go to his church or they get fired...why not? If everyone is “free”, why can’t these folks be free? Because they crush others. And, right now the big “churches” (Catholic, in particular) are sometimes more into acquiring than correct teaching. Why should a big gilded monstrosity of a building be needed? Really. Can’t a group of believers simply gather in a home and pray and teach? Without an “organization” behind them? Without a 40 acre parking lot and a $ 30 mm Crystal Cathedral (Schuller’s crazy palace, now in the hands of the Catholic Org.). What is wrong with the excess being taxed just like a company has to pay?

[Talisker]

...why would anyone need a law ‘granting’ the ‘ability’ to ‘bring up the defense’ of ‘religious conviction.’

That is indeed THE question.

Here's the answer: Because these are corporate laws, applying only to corporations.

Nothing will change until conservatives really grasp that. Yet they have plenty of examples, as "laws" which are really corporate statutes are made over and over and over to imitate narrow, pre-existing parts of the Constitution.

So it's easy to throw up your hands and cry corruption.

Don't do it.

Instead, understand what is going on. There are TWO SETS OF LAWS. Those of rights for the people, and those of privileges for corporations.

The two are being mixed up. The Left is doing the mixing. The Right is clueless.

Stop being clueless.

[Travis McGee]

We have to learn how to hit back.

You can't ever win a fight back on your heels or on your back.

[Talisker]

What is wrong with the excess being taxed just like a company has to pay?

LOL, what's wrong is, who decides what "excess" is?

Right now, the Courts are starting to allow gays to decide what the "excess" parts of the Bible are.

You want gays, or Muslims, or atheists, to decide how much church money is "excess"? How about Catholics deciding on Protestant money, or Protestants deciding on Catholic money?

And since religious worship is a right, not a privilege, where does the authority come from to get between someone else and God?

I can think of only one legitimate reason to limit religion - if it's being used as a cover story to protect murder, war, terrorism, sedition, treason, or the replacement of the Constitution. Guess who's doing all that?

[dhs12345]

They can lure them in. The MSM are always on a quest for bigots. Only bring your own camera and film the interview. Then when the reporter edits and splices the interview, play your own version on youtube.

[Bigg Red]

What is a Coulter?

(Nice try at being relevant again, Annie, but we are on to you.)

[JRandomFreeper]

Because the Constitution says nothing about "Need".

You need to get right. Just because the federal leviathan does it doesn't make it right. It is wrong, wrong, wrong at the federal level. That is a State function, maybe. If the state does it, it needs to be in keeping with that States constitution and not over-reach.

It's not an every dog for himself. Of course, in Houston, there is NO zoning. There are still residential and commercial neigborhoods without government intervention.

I despise government intervention and those that support it just because their hobby horse is in there.

Conservatism doesn't mean that some government stomps what you don't like. It's about freedom from government.

/johnny

[Patriotic1]

Tax deduction of donations is the biggest hit they’re after.

[trisham]

Well said.

[Dutchboy88]

Bingo! And, if the constituents could not deduct the contributions, how exactly would that limit a person’s ability to worship?

[Nea Wood]

Great points.

[Rockingham]

Thank you.

[joshua c]

The corrupt media formerly known as mainstream needs some fundamental transformation.

There needs to be more competition so that opposing viewpoints get wide spread coverage.

To fundamentally transform the existing media, first you have to destroy it. Cutting cable tv would be a step in the right direction. Tell the cable company you will be back when they have a la carte packages.