[Ohioan]

“Their efforts to purge this bill of any possibility that it would allow or encourage discrimination illustrates how difficult it is to legislate something that is best left to the broad protections of the First Amendment,” he said.

Very sad that the people of Georgia would elect so intellectually confused a Governor.

The "broad protection of the First Amendment," by its explicit terms, forbids Congress from interfering with establishments of religion. It does not prevent a State from securing the religious freedom of its citizens. It certainly was never intended to force anyone to do business with someone they deemed morally reprehensible.

As for "discrimination?" Governor Deal is totally clueless. The right to discriminate--that is the right to make decisions based upon one's values and preferences--goes to the very essence of personal freedom. Every voluntary choice between alternatives that a free man or women makes is a discriminating act.

My intention is not to pick on the Governor. But it is absolutely pathetic that one in so high an office appears so utterly unaware of what is really involved in a contemporary issue. We are going to lose more and more of our freedom to make our own decisions in our own lives, unless we stop allowing "politically correct" bullies to intimidate those who should have the character to defend the liberty they were sworn to uphold.

[Theodore R.]

He’s not unaware: just a die-hard liberal playing with the “R” label and Republicans too confused to know the difference.