Posted on 03/31/2015 2:46:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
MILWAUKEE (WKOW) – Governor Scott Walker talked about Indiana's religious freedom bill on Monday in the Milwaukee area for the first time since it became law last week.
Walker believes the NCAA will discuss how the bill, which some say gives businesses the right to discriminate against members of the LGBT community, will impact their headquarters and events like the Big Ten Football Championship Game, which are in Indianapolis, in the near future.
Despite that, he doesn't think the law will stop most Badgers fans from making the trip to Indianapolis to see the men's basketball team play in the Final Four on Saturday.
Walker doesn't expect a similar bill being put up for debate in the Wisconsin state legislature because businesses in the state have found a balance between not discriminating against groups while still respecting people's religious beliefs.
“That's something that folks will have to look at in the future,” said Walker while talking about the bill in Indiana. “As I understand, the law is not unlike the one that President Obama voted for when he was a member of the state senate in Illinois, but that's an issue they'll have to debate in Indiana. It's really not something that we're going to be involved with here.”
Democrats in Indiana told ABC News the only way they can fix the law is to repeal it, which is unlikely to happen.
Of course if you go to the comment section of the WKOW piece, the Leftists know Walker's sidestepping their trap - again - and it has these rabid activists spitting in anger.
The Left loves it when they can pit their opposition against each other by making them comment on each other.
The Washington Post played ‘gotcha’ with Scott Walker (and lost)".... Of everything they had opportunity to ask, they chose to ask Walker whether he thought Obama was a Christian. ...Walker refused to give them the answer they wanted....... And so our national press falls yet another rung in their slow, sad, descent into irrelevance. There is a silver lining though: maddening as the interview was to read, it’s abundantly clear Scott Walker will not be presshandled."
Making The News: Scott Walker And The Media"...The media isn’t interested in covering the news; they’re out to make it. Potential Republican candidates need to recognize that either have a “that’s a bullshit question”-esque answer chambered for when they come, or simply ignore them altogether.
Reporters are, at the heart of it, lazy. They get an easy narrative in their heads and try to fit the news into it. If you don’t play along, they will be forced to cover something else, like what a candidate said that matters."....
Hmmmm.... Sounds more like a warning to the state legislature to me: “Don’t pass a bill like this cause I won’t sign it.”
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So, how will gay activists portray Walker's comment, when he won't play their game? They will go forth and write headlines and write copy to stir the "hate pot" because THEY WANT THIS ISSUE to rally their base!
They are desperate to change the topic from Hillary's corruption and talk instead about GOP hate. And it works.
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"In response to Indiana’s adoption of a “right-to-discriminate” law targeting gay and transgender people, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed an executive order today barring state spending on travel to that state.
Malloy’s action follows similar moves by the cities of San Francisco and Seattle. But, while numerous companies, conferences, performers and political leaders also have threatened to boycott the state, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker bucked the trend of denouncing the law today, telling CNN through a spokesperson that he supports it. -- Conn. bans state travel to Indiana, Wilco cancels concert but Scott Walker backs 'right-to-discriminate' law
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Below is the CNN piece. How does it match up?
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Fox 59 Morning News"WASHINGTON (CNN – March 30, 2015) — Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum and Ben Carson are rushing to defend Indiana’s “religious freedom” law, standing with social conservatives on a measure that opponents have said opens the door to discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, meanwhile, is backing the “principle” of the measure.
......Walker hasn’t weighed in directly on the Indiana law, but a spokeswoman for his political action committee, Our American Revival, said he supports religious freedom rights.
“As a matter of principle, Gov. Walker believes in broad religious freedom and the right for Americans to exercise their religion and act on their conscience,” said spokeswoman AshLee Strong.
Speaking in 2012 to a teleconference with activists from Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition, Walker said his faith has enabled him to rise above the “vitriol, and the constant, ongoing hatred” during the recall election he faced in the wake of his anti-union legislation, which has crippled the state’s once-iconic labor movement. Along with the unmistakable contrast of his church-going family with the profane and progressive activists, Walker cited two Bible verses. He didn’t recite them, but for anyone who knows their Bible—as Walker, the son of a Baptist pastor, does—the meaning was clear. The verses that helped him withstand the hatred were Romans 16:20 (“The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you”) and Isaiah 54:17 (“no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.”)
Should he run for president, Walker may very well turn out to be the 2016 cycle’s evangelical favorite—not because he ticks off a laundry list of culture war talking points, pledges fealty to a “Christian nation,” or because he’s made a show of praying publicly to curry political favor. 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.”
Over the course of his political career in Wisconsin, Walker “hasn’t presented as any kind of culture warrior,” said Hunter Baker, Associate Professor of Political Science at Union University, a Southern Baptist school in Jackson, Tennessee. “One of the worst things that ever happened with conservative Christians,” said Baker, was that they “give in to a tribal impulse,” by questioning “are we getting the respect we perceive we once had, are we losing ground, we need to mobilize, we need to increase our force.” That, he added, “is a losing strategy. It gives people the sense you’re working from resentment.”.......
No, that doesn't sound like American values and is a sexual perversion.
LGBT does not deserve special privileges in America, and LGBT does
not fall into the civil rights act category.
The LGBT community as they call it needs to be locked up away from
Americas children and lobotomized.
He said the same things about Right to Work. The legislature passed it without his (visible) involvement, and he signed it.
He tried that with the right to work law, but the legislature went ahead with it anyway and he signed that. If the Wisconsin legislature passes a similar law this year or next then Walker will have to sign it.
He said the same thing about RTW and signed it. Don’t listen to what Walker says, watch what he does. That’s my advice.
He plays the MSM for fools and does the right thing over and over again.
And it’s not a right to discriminate law. I wish it were. It’s only through discriminating that we can make choices.
Why can’t Walker simply state that IN’s bill is necessary because homosexual activists are trolling businesses and suing those who refuse to cave in to their demands.
The Left’s most successful weapon is division - it’s the only way they can win elections.
It’s the hate that brings them emotional voters.
Walker refuses to dance with them.
Their latest smear tactic making the MSM rounds is that Walker is a racist.
They fear him.
Swastika cakes?
Really?
That’s a hate crime.
Ted Cruz on the other hand, voiced his support of Mike Pence.
Exactly.
You can’t govern if you’re constantly defending yourself against MSM headlines.
The Left is constantly rolling the right to slow them down.
Democrat activists throw chum in the political water to activate a feeding frenzy.
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Washington (CNN)Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says concerns that his state's new "religious freedom" law will allow businesses to turn away LGBT customers is the result of a "tremendous amount of misinformation and misunderstanding."
......Pence said he's open to legislative efforts to clarify the "religious freedom" law -- though the state's Republican-dominated legislature already rejected Democrats' push to amend it to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination, and Pence said he doesn't support a new state law with those protections.
"This isn't about disputes between individuals, it's about government overreach," Pence said, "and I'm proud that Indiana stepped forward." CNN
Sadly, too many FReepers trust the MSM. I’m always shocked at the lack of thinking that goes on here.
Walker’s winning and people are whining because he ‘doesn’t say the right things’. Isn’t that the liberal positions - rhetoric over substance?
I don’t believe that Walker is GOPe in the least sense, but he’s a winner. He understands that you must come to peace with the GOPe to win. He gets how to play the game.
He’s the 21st century Reagan. I only hope he gets enough support and money to win. It will take a billion dollars plus to win in 2016. Reagan had the backing of businessmen from America’s most dynamic state at the time, California.
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