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White House: Obama Finds Religious Freedom Laws ‘Unthinkable’
theblaze.com ^ | Fred Lucas | April 1, 2015

Posted on 04/01/2015 2:45:19 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

President Barack Obama finds Indiana’s religious freedom law and others like it “unthinkable,” the White House said Wednesday.

“I do think in the mind of the president, the thought that we would have state legislatures in the 21st century in the United States of America passing laws that would use religion to try to justify discriminating against people for who they love is unthinkable,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.

Critics say Indiana’s law now allows for businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Arkansas; US: Illinois; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: arkansas; bhohomosexualagenda; demagogicparty; deviants; homosexualagenda; illinois; indiana; memebuilding; mikepence; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; perverts; rfra; sodomites
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Unfortunately the liberal are controlling the narrative in this saga.

We do not see people of faith rallying for religious freedom, or pointing out the sodomy proponents efforts to force people of faith to support and endorse that lifestyle.

81 posted on 04/01/2015 5:08:05 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: ex-snook

I think you were talking to someone else.


82 posted on 04/01/2015 5:30:25 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Star Traveler

You know, I think that private individuals ought to be able to decide on their own, without government interference, who they do business with and who they choose not to do business with.

Of course, this went out the window due to our justifiable national intent to end discrimination based on race.

The problem is that managerial government can’t ever stop expanding its reach and power over free individuals. Once the door was opened, it was opened to ending discrimination based on personal appearance, cleanliness and smell.

Sexual deviancy is small beans, since most business owners can’t discern this unless the potential customer exposes it in some way, like same-sex smooching in the donut shop - perhaps to put the business owner into a trap.

If I were a baker I’d refuse to make a phallus-shaped cake for anyone, gay or not, and therefore could not be discriminating against gays. But that won’t fly with today’s courts which are more concerned with protecting their mascot classes than with the equitable application of the law.

We have come to the point where we need a revolution in this country. A revolution of the sane to end government by the insane.


83 posted on 04/01/2015 5:43:32 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Star Traveler

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” - Thomas Jefferson

Simple.


84 posted on 04/01/2015 6:18:40 PM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionaly blank.)
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To: savagesusie

I tell you something weird. I was in Miami Beach a few weeks ago, well there was a queer event at my hotel, they basically took over the pool area on a Saturday and it was closed to hotel goers unless paid some money, it was little event on the Centiennal celebration of Miami Beach, no big deal. It rained most of the day so haha. But what was strange was all these guys looked like bodybuilder convention. Ripped, muscled dudes in little shorts. There were typical scrawny dandies in little shorts and T-shirts with small stringy backpacks, but I never knew bodybuilding was part of the deviant culture, some guys were huge. Of course they talked with feminine voice. So all those muscle magazines and fitness mags with half nude guys...uh yeah..


85 posted on 04/01/2015 6:24:14 PM PDT by TheBigJ
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Obozo’s affiliation with Muzzie Brotherhood from his handler Valerie Jarrett is revealed further from these usurping domestic enemies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnQonCwvbBc

Keep buying ammo folks.


86 posted on 04/01/2015 6:26:04 PM PDT by TheBigJ
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The Commie pink fag? Do tell.


87 posted on 04/01/2015 6:34:17 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: jessduntno

Several leftist articles I have read in the last few days made a point of what is truly behind all of this. Basically their point is that the Federal RFRA was passed to protect the minority religious freedom but that it should not be extended to the majority. Christians/Jews are the majority so they should not have this protection.

They also object to individuals having a right to use the RFRA as a defense in private civil suits. So if a person sues you for not providing a service that you object to based on your deeply held religious conviction they don’t want you to force them to prove that you don’t have a 1st ammendment right, (and a RFRA backed right), to refuse service to them.

A prime example would be an OB/GYN who is a devout Catholic being sued because he refused to perform an abortion. They want to destroy him/her but if the OB/GYN has the right to argue that his/her deeply held religious convictions prevent him/her from performing an abortion the complainant may lose the suit.

Keep in mind that in “civil rights” lawsuits under federal law, (section 1989), there is no limit on financial damages.


88 posted on 04/01/2015 7:48:07 PM PDT by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

0 voted for the Illinois version that was signed into law.


89 posted on 04/01/2015 8:01:59 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: TheBigJ

That’s pretty simple. In the dominant gay culture, looks are pretty much all that matters. I know from sad experience.


90 posted on 04/01/2015 8:10:38 PM PDT by Luircin
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To: kiryandil

Why don’t they use the correct verb: it’s not who they love, since they don’t love thousands of men. It’s who they have sex with.


91 posted on 04/02/2015 1:08:30 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: kiryandil

He is running for U.N. grand pooh bah.
57 mooselimb states there ya know.


92 posted on 04/02/2015 2:06:48 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
NO, they're laws to protect Religion from Homosexuals and the Communist disrupters
who have taken up their cause.
93 posted on 04/02/2015 2:18:42 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: Le Chien Rouge
"The lefties response: ‘Obama EVOLVED as should the REST of the nation.”"

There are four problems with that argument:

1. As a state senator in Illinois, Obama stated his support for gay marriage, years before he claimed to oppose gay marriage. So he must have devolved before he evolved, or else he was lying on one or both occasions.

2. In a recent memoir, former Obama advisor David Axelrod said that Obama lied about his views on gay marriage in 2008.

3. Libs hailed Obama as a great man even during the time he said he opposed gay marriage, whereas now anyone who opposes gay marriage is an unregenerate bigot.

4. Who are libs to proclaim how fast everyone should "evolve," and why is their timetable the only legitimate one?
94 posted on 04/02/2015 6:31:06 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Star Traveler
"Are you saying that Christians will be excluded from this law?!"

No, I'm saying that the law doesn't specifically mention Christians. Or gays. Or gay marriage.
95 posted on 04/02/2015 6:32:17 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: FlingWingFlyer
"Anybody still think that the boy isn’t a Muzzie?"

I don't, I think he's an atheist, and so did several prominent atheists, such as Christopher Hitchens.
96 posted on 04/02/2015 6:33:31 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

But it applies to them also ... :-) ...


97 posted on 04/02/2015 6:42:04 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

98 posted on 04/02/2015 3:10:30 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: tacticalogic

By SHTF, do you mean society goes to anarchy? Because that would kill a lot of people who cannot get to their HIV mess every 4 to 6 hours anymore.


99 posted on 04/02/2015 3:37:14 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Morpheus2009

Not necessarily anarchy, a government move to systematically eliminate Christians and conservatives by violent force would be a SHTF moment too.

It basically means a situation where the old rules no longer apply.


100 posted on 04/02/2015 3:39:59 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEALY CRUZ 2016)
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