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CBS: Religious Freedom a 'License to Discriminate' for 'Extreme' Christians
MRC Newsbusters ^ | May 16, 2016 | Kyle Drennen

Posted on 05/17/2016 12:55:08 PM PDT by Zakeet

In a slanted hit piece against religious freedom laws for CBS Sunday Morning, correspondent Mark Strassmann proclaimed: "North Carolina's public bathrooms are the new frontier in American civil rights law....Just since the beginning of this year, lawmakers in 34 states have proposed so-called 'bathroom' bills and 'religious freedom' laws that, critics say, target gay, lesbian and transgender people."

The reporter argued that the source of such supposed discrimination was signed into law decades earlier: "These state actions descend from a little-known bipartisan bill signed into law by President Clinton back in 1993....The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, prohibited the government from unduly interfering in the way Americans express religious beliefs."

A soundbite played from left-wing University of Pennsylvania law professor Marci Hamilton, who expressed her disgust over the legislation: "It's really hard to explain what was happening. Basically, the civil rights groups dropped the ball. Everybody was just so excited about religious freedom - how could you be opposed to religious freedom? But the very smart, very conservative evangelical groups knew what their agenda was."

Strassmann declared: "...she argues that RFRA, in effect, granted a license to discriminate."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; christian; christianpersecution; civilrights; extremechristians; homosexualagenda; perverts; religiousfreedom; strassmann
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SeeBS Snooze: Christians are practicing discrimination every time they take a stand against sin!

1 posted on 05/17/2016 12:55:08 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

The networks hate religion. Any other reading of the facts is erroneous.


2 posted on 05/17/2016 12:58:38 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Zakeet

The 4 big networks should be anti-trusted and broken up


3 posted on 05/17/2016 12:59:21 PM PDT by heights
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To: heights

BUMP


4 posted on 05/17/2016 1:01:14 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Zakeet

5 posted on 05/17/2016 1:02:17 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: Zakeet

The smarmy CBS hypocrites don’t hesitate to discriminate against certain religious persons or groups. What makes them exempt from discrimination rules? For that matter, what makes the lying, liberal, lunatic left’s brand of offense any more worthy of government sanction than mine?

According to the demented left all cultures are equal...unless they don’t like it.


6 posted on 05/17/2016 1:04:36 PM PDT by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: heights

Totally agree with that.


7 posted on 05/17/2016 1:06:45 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (her name is no longer is Hillary. It's Hilarity. Try it on for size, it's fun to say)
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To: Zakeet

In 100 years I wonder if the Atheists of this age will regret their life’s decisions as they ponder their eternal existence separated from any comfort or good.


8 posted on 05/17/2016 1:07:39 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (God is a racist! Get over it snowflakes. Deuteronomy 7:6-8; Romans 9:13-15)
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To: Zakeet

It unfortunately will take a lot of women and children being molested for this to change back.


9 posted on 05/17/2016 1:09:25 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm actually going back to school. I kinda don't believe it.)
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To: Zakeet

The discernment of right and wrong must be outlawed!


10 posted on 05/17/2016 1:09:45 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: null and void

A classic!


11 posted on 05/17/2016 1:11:46 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Zakeet

Allowing perverts to use whatever restroom they “identify with” has nothing to do with religious freedom. It’s insanity and an indicator of cultural rot.


12 posted on 05/17/2016 1:16:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Zakeet

Really? Only Christians care about men using women’s bathrooms?


13 posted on 05/17/2016 1:25:06 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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To the extent there is a God, yes.
In other words, no.

—— an atheist


14 posted on 05/17/2016 1:28:48 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Thanks, I stole it fair and square...


15 posted on 05/17/2016 1:30:52 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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Decent Americans continue to shovel dirt on the sh-t pooped out by the so-called Progressive atheist asshats.


16 posted on 05/17/2016 1:31:41 PM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Zakeet

Let’s not get hung up on the word “discriminate.” We discriminate all the time, and it is usually a good thing to do so.


17 posted on 05/17/2016 1:32:46 PM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: null and void

I try to steal from the best too!


18 posted on 05/17/2016 1:33:09 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Zakeet; All
Thank you for referencing that article Zakeet. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Regarding the so-called “license to discriminate,” please consider the following.

The states are free to discriminate on the basis of anything that they have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect, the states having never amended the Constitution to protect so-called LGBT “rights.”

So regardless what lawless Obama’s pro-LGBT, state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices want everybody to think about the constitutionality of gay “marriage” for example, the Founding States had made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution’s silence about things like marriage means that such issues are automatically and uniquely state power issues, not the business of the feds.

It can also be argued that pro-LGBT activist officials in both the state and federal governments are wrongly using government power to effectively make LGBT people a privileged / protected class. The problem with doing so is that the Founding States had expressly prohibited both the state and federal governments from establishing protected classes.

Also note that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified in United States v. Cruikshank that only the state and federal governments, not private citizens, are obligated to respect constitutionally enumerated rights.

19 posted on 05/17/2016 1:33:46 PM PDT by Amendment10
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Wow.

Waiting for CBS to argue that FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION = RACISM/DISCRIMINATION/BIGOTRY/HOMOPHOBIA.

Dummies.

20 posted on 05/17/2016 1:34:50 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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