Posted on 03/28/2015 8:38:50 PM PDT by Liberty1st
The NBA and the Indiana Pacers released a joint statement on Saturday in regard to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that was recently signed into law in Indiana.
The official release:
(Excerpt) Read more at probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com ...
Clinton and the Dems did it on a federal level in ‘93....
Courts have ruled limited ability to enforce so states have been adding their own laws for some time. Indiana is doing it now specifically for that reason. To protect business owners from these radicals out to destroy Christian business owners.
The NBA is dead to me. To hell with them all... players, coaches, owners.
I’d be willing to bet that if the State of Indiana threw the Pacers out of the state, they’d see a huge drop in the crime rate. They should give it a try.
This is what the new law was intended to do, protect the individual conscience. If you want to facilitate sinful behavior in your business, go ahead. If your conscience forbids it, you shouldn't have to.
Please try to explain that to the angry, pro-sodomite commenters down at the bottom of the page if you would.
Well, Indiana might care because the gays and other industrial strength victims have proven that they can get the leagues and conferences and conventions to shut down operations and events in states and cities that ever cross them in any way.
That may be a reason, even though it's unreasonable.
They were strong enough in AZ to have Gov. Jan Brewer to veto a similar bill, didn’t they? The NFL Cardinals threatened to leave, or so I thought.
Where IS the governor? Has he addressed this backlash? Did he not think there would be one?
Yeah, I never knew my thoughts lined up with the Taliban before.
Sports organizations all all levels should stick to their particular sport and stay completely the hell away from politics.
No one gives a crap about how many LGBTs are participating in competetive sports. Observers just want to see how well the participants perform in their chosen sport.
Decades ago, people didn’t make a big deal about Natrilova and Billy Jean being gay in pro tennis because they were top performers. Same has been true in other sports for many years regarding gays.
There is no doubt in my mind that he needs to publicly stand up & defend religious freedom & say that he has no regrets whatsoever in signing the RFRA bill....& rub the Progressive’s nose in it while doing so.
Looks like the Pats aren’t the only sports franchise with deflated balls.
Are the Libertarians split on the RFRA & Gov. Pence signing it into law?
Please, let them relocate or disband! PLEASE!
the homonazis have said their “rights” trump the First amendment.
Next the homonazis will demand churches to marry them and have the govt shutdown the churches which won’t.
I never thought 22 years ago that whole states would jump ship on the sanctity of traditional marriage.
We have entered those days Our Lord talked about when He said people would call good evil and evil good.
If Clinton signed an RFRA 22 years ago (which he did), why is a State Governor doing it again now? I thought that once the Feds did something, the States wouldn’t have to sign another similar bill into law.
Like I asked earlier, did the Dems repeal the Federal RFRA when they took control of Congress, either during the Bush or Obama Presidencies?
in 1998, the supreme court ruled that the federal rfra does not apply to state / local laws. since then, 19 states passed their own rfra. one other thing, the hobby lobby case was decided on the rfra.
“Where IS the governor? Has he addressed this backlash? Did he not think there would be one?”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/pence-effort-clarify-religious-objections-law-underway
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