They use these same tactics to get people whipped into a frenzy in social media, which turns the mindless masses into blind followers.
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 ...
They didn't reveal that the deck was stacked but Pence should have anticipated this.
This just gave the Left a big platform and megaphone to drive a bigger wedge between Christians, conservatives and the voters in 2016. This will be portrayed as the Republican Party is filled with hate - it will close voters minds to even listening to our candidates. The Left is tickled pink over this. It will make lying about conservatism easier for the MSM.
Time for Christians to boycott Indiana
He can just join the democratic party and live happily ever after.
BUMP
GOP needs to change their symbol from an elephant to a chicken.
it’s a VERY nuanced difference, that I think only an experience attorney could understand.
In the end, I think the difference comes down to: Whether or not a court should allow a person, or business to use this law (RFRA) as a defense in a lawsuit for their decision to withhold certain services from certain customers because of a religious conviction.
The court could ALREADY have done so, or chosen NOT to do so. My guess is, even with this law, a future court would decide to apply it on not on their own. So, I don’t see that it makes ANY difference.
But, it was a ready opportunity for the gay mafia to protest.
“GOP needs to change their symbol from an elephant to a chicken.”
No, “streetwalker”
He's toast. He's totally pissed off his base, and the people he appeased won't vote for him anyway.
They use these same tactics to get people whipped into a frenzy in social media, which turns the mindless masses into blind followers.
Pence, like many others, is a coward.
Practicing homosexuals make up only about one or two percent of the population. So why in hell are so many of our “conservative leaders” so terrified of them?
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. We spend far too much time thinking about what the opposition thinks.
You give the left a platform when you listen to them and respond. Ever notice how the White House answers crap like this? They laugh and say “next question”.
We cannot survive and thrive as conservatives that want to protect honest religion and morality (Islam is neither, BTW - neither is perversion legitimate) if we are constantly wringing our hands about the other side and what they think. It just won’t work. Ignore them and move on.
This whole thing is the gay version of that whole media creation “Hands up don’t shoot”.
Those on “social media” who are that easily led aren’t on your side in the first place.
One of these day white Western Christians are going to realize they have ZERO representation in government.
People could probably understand it, but there has been very little in the way of detailed explanation, at least in the many discussions I've heard on radio and TV. Maybe there has been some better presentations in written columns.
And the Governor's explanations haven't helped since he's talked so much about what the law would not do (allow any sort of discrimination) and little detail about what it would have done.
I can buy and live by that. However, there is a problem in that some/many people would have it that I cannot do/live by such a free person creed.
I think that somewhere there is a body of people who wanted a discriminatory bill, and Gov. Pence was willing to allow then to think that this was it, to try to score political points on the side, but it blew up in his face and now everywhere he turns it’s a loss.
You don't take the battlefield when you know that the enemy can take you out. You build your strength, take the high ground and move when the timing is right.
Right now these efforts are about as successful as an army of Red Coats marching across the field and being mowed down.
That’s what happens when a politician has no core values but tries to go with the flow.
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