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."
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Bingo.
And the Associated Press and other wire feeds.
This is key. We should spend MUCH less time bitching about Obama, et al., and instead devote energies to toppling the handful of wire sources.
Until we do so, Middle America will simply elect one socialist after another.
And licensing / anti-trust arguments are a key element in doing so. Why does NBC have the license to broadcast in your city? Why not Joe Schmoe Media Productions?
The fact is that the ability to discriminate is a right protected in the constitution. Freedom of Association is real. The right to privacy and abortion or even marriage, gay or otherwise , is not!
Theonly,people that hve been harmed are faithful Christians.
We hear zero defense or complaint from msm about this.
In this case, Travis McGee.
And if he ain’t the best, you’d be hard pressed to find better!
Tolerance = Brutal oppression of Christians.
he who that does not discriminate is doomed
Wrong. The bathroom regulations were designed to destroy Christianity.
Another MSM robotic non-thinker
Seriously, do these guys ever have an original thought? Any principles? Same bio, born NYC, raised Boston, BA Penn. Just the same cookie cutter “journ-O-lists” one after another.
No wonder they’re so ignorant on the issues and real life.
Yeah, wouldn’t you like to see a survey of CBS personnel, categorized by religion. Disproportionately athiest, agnostic and Jewish. And I’ll bet they have their token Muslims.
Barely a Christian anywhere to be found.
Anyone else remember Hillary stating that people would need to re-evaluate their religious beliefs?
America is over.
Mark
I don’t know about other State so called bathroom bills, but for our State, it was generated by a policy approved by the State High School Activities Association, based on the National Associations approval of said policy, which pretty much opened bathrooms and locker rooms to the trans folks we are talking about. Policy approved at a Jun 2014 meeting of the State Association. Efforts ever since have been to get rid of said policy, without much success other than raising awareness of the dangers of such a policy.
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