Posted on 03/31/2015 10:04:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Governor Mike Pence of Indiana seems to have caved into enormous pressure and will ask the state legislature for new legislation to make it clear that Christian florists and bakers could be forced to participate in weddings that violate their religious beliefs.
Last week, Indiana joined 19 other states and the federal government by enacting a law to protect religious believers from governmental encroachment on religious freedom. Such legislation was cited in the recent Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision that determined religious employers could not be forced to supply abortion drugs to employees under ObamaCare.
In a packed press conference this morning, Pence did not give specifics about what the new legislation would say, only that he wants it to make clear that “Indiana businesses will not be able to discriminate against anyone for any reason.” He said the religion freedom bill he signed was never considered by him or the bill’s sponsors to allow a “license to discriminate.”
Such legislation has been read as supporting businesses and individuals not just to avoid supplying abortion drugs, but also allowing certain businesses to avoid serving gay weddings, usually bakers and photographers some who are now being run out of business for refusing to serve what they see as a religious ceremony that violates their own deeply held beliefs.
Pence and the state of Indiana absorbed a tsunami of protest from the main stream media, major corporations, athletes, movie stars and gay leaders after enacting the bill......
....Social conservatives, a base Pence would need if he tries to make it through the GOP primaries, were immediately upset.
Columnist Robert Knight tells Breitbart News, “Mr. Pence would do well to find out what Scott Walker had for breakfast when he faced down union mobs, the media and the ruling elites.”....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Hope he can get those bigoted Dems to vote for him since he is going to have a problem with Christians. Just like ever other Repub who cares more about the liberals than he does his voters.
Pray America is waking
No, they want churches closed down and that is the next move.
Pray America is waking
He doesn't look or sound very good and the libs at MSNBC are lovn his floundering around on camera
I've been for forming a third party for 3 years now.
The JOKE may be on me, however. We don't need a THIRD party... we need a SECOND party because we have what I would call a "One Party" system currently.
"If things don't change they'll stay the same."
Years ago, Dr. Gary North predicted that if the left captured the “robes” (the authority figures — teachers, preachers, judges and others), America would fall.
They did and we have as it’s pretty hard to reach other folks if all the authority figures in their lives have convinced the rest of us are fools or crazy or both!
We need to solve THAT problem first.
WHY respond to the media, I mean really.
You’re darn right. That’s why we need the presidency and the Senate.
“...convinced THEM...” Missed a key word. Sorry.
I wonder where are all the religious leaders who should be standing up for him.
By your logic we won’t even take the field because their bugles are too loud
Excellent question.
I believe they DON’T WHAT THIS TO BE USED BY CANDIDATES AS A VOTE gathering ploy, then FOLD like what happened today which just gives the Left more ammunition and hate to spread about Christians and the right.
“.....Although by no means universal, some conservative evangelicals—those who eschew the fever swamps of talk radio, yet share the same political stances of the religious right—are weary of the old style of campaigning. They’re turned off by the culture war red meat, the dutiful but insincere orations of piety.
Emphasizing that ours is a “Christian nation” and pushing “hot button issues” as a style of campaigning has been detrimental to evangelicals, said Mary Jo Sharp, who teaches apologetics at Houston Baptist University and analyzes political campaigns as part of a class she teaches there. “It’s very difficult to hear” that kind of rhetoric, she said. “Christians are not supposed to be the dividers.”.....”
http://religiondispatches.org/evangelicals-looking-for-walker-to-do-nothing-in-2016-election/
Apparently you prefer to find fault with someone who would achieve victory by using his brain.
BOHICA!
There is nobody more vicious and vindictive though.
Most of your post is correct, but penny dug his own hole.
Frankly, I think this was scripted. The uniparty profits when so called conservatives capitulate. Thus, they “capitulate” frequently. Its demoralizing and predictable. Penny is already set for life. He doesn’t need this gig. All the better that he “capitulate” in a public and embarassing manner.
Incompetence, cowardice, or skulduggery. Take your pick.
How about a simple return to Freedom of Association?
Why do you lose your rights when you enter commerce?
Bad sign for a wannabe presidential candidate. Very bad. Toast indeed.
Biding your time, taking the high ground and ‘planning’ has worked so well for the GOP, hasn’t it? Only it wasn’t for our benefit.
GOP and conservatives’ plaints against Democrats haven’t worked because a Democrat sloughs off the truth like water off a ducks back. Is Hillary out constantly trying to assuage conservatives? Debbie Wasserman Schultz? Any of them? No. If they get caught in a faux pas, lie or misstep, it’s answered with their standard lines and then back to their canned propaganda - no more questions.
Instead of talking to reporters and addressing stuff from groups far removed, take his case to his constituents and his legislature.
From my own personal viewpoint with regard to elected officials in my state for the Federal Offices, all I want them to do is to stop anything Obama and his ilk want to do, period. They do that or try earnestly and that’s all they have to do, frankly. For Georgia’s laws, I don’t give a crap what other states or organizations say. If they don’t like the laws try and get them changed the right way.
Pandering to these groups never works. They just want more, the more you cede to them.
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