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To: Tailgunner Joe

Hey, order pizzas for some other reason but, going after a business and destroying the livelyhood of employees demonstrates you are a selfish and for your own ascencion a vindictive ass.

Nevermind that more than half the states have similar laws and the U.S. Government does as well, signed Bill Clinton in 1993.

There are 21 states that have a version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act enacted by their legislature:

Alabama (state constitution amendment)[22][23]
Arizona[24]
Arkansas[25]
Connecticut[26]
Florida[26]
Idaho[26]
Illinois[26]
Indiana[27]
Kansas[26]
Kentucky[28]
Louisiana[26]
Mississippi[29][30]
Missouri[26]
New Mexico[26]
Oklahoma[24]
Pennsylvania[26]
Rhode Island[26]
South Carolina[26]
Tennessee[26]
Texas[26]
Virginia[26]

If states with RFRA-like provisions that have been provided by state court decisions—rather than via legislation—are included, the list also contains:[31]

Alaska
Hawaii
Ohio
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
North Carolina
Washington
Wisconsin


11 posted on 04/01/2015 2:47:01 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome

RE: There are 21 states that have a version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act enacted by their legislature:

I notice New Mexico is on the list.

Pretty useless RFRA there as a Christian photographer was taken to court for refusing to shoot a gay wedding.

SEE HERE:

http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/5537

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent Elane Photography and its owners, Jonathan and Elaine Huguenin. In 2006, Elaine received an e-mail from a woman about photographing a “commitment ceremony” between her and her same-sex partner and asking if Elaine would be “open to helping us celebrate our day….” Elaine politely declined to use her artistic expression to communicate a message at odds with her beliefs. The woman who approached Elaine, Vanessa Willock, easily found another photographer for her ceremony—and for less money. Nevertheless, Willock filed a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Commission. After a one-day administrative trial in 2008, the commission ruled against the Huguenins and ordered them to pay $6,637.94 in attorneys’ fees to Willock.

The case then made its way through the New Mexico state court system, and the New Mexico Supreme Court upheld the ruling. In a concurrence accompanying the court’s opinion, one of the justices wrote that the Huguenins “now are compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives,” adding “it is the price of citizenship.”


32 posted on 04/01/2015 3:01:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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