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 ...
Apparently you have not read these laws or do not understand these laws. The laws do not grant new or special rights for individuals; the laws place limits on government, prevent government from imposing upon individuals, forcing individuals to violate their faith.
These type of laws, as exampled in Hobby Lobby case found Constitutional and cited as reason to stop the federal government via Obamacare from forcing owners of Hobby Lobby to violate their faith and purchase mandated items. The Supreme Court also stipulated that the Federal Law did not apply to State governments; such is why you see States now passing similar laws to RESTRICT government from forcing people to violate their faith.
Remember, the U.S. Constitution limits the Federal; not so much the States in many specific instances. I would not hold my breath waiting for this Leftist Federal Government to step in and attempt to intercede in the defense of an individuals religious liberty at the State level any time soon.
Well, Barry certainly has unthinking down.
Since they all knew he was lying, no.
Apparently, he was a Constitutional instructor in a law school.
Social promotion on steroids.
‘Last I checked, evolution and indoctrination weren’t anywhere near synonymous’
I agree....I’ll give you these lefties addresses and let YOU debate them....I’m just passing on their twisted logic...
Who gives a $hit what that O-hole thinks!
You can't debate dogma. All you can do is hit it in the head with a shovel, push it into a hole and cover it up.
Constitution “expert” Obama evidently doesn’t know that the religious freedom laws are not only based on Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A), but that Section 5 of 14A gives Congress the constitutional authority to strengthen religious freedoms as evidenced by the RFRA.
14th Amendment, Section 1:All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Note that the “privileges or immunities” term which John Bingham, the main author of Section 1, used in that section is just another way to refer to constitutionally enumerated rights, most of these well-known rights listed in the Bill of Rights.
What does Obama know about thinking?
Yes. He’s such a Bible expert, after all.
Right down to knowing about all there is about Sodom on the Potomac, and sleeping with men.
This current information comes from the White Hut, after all. It’d get no traction otherwise.
Really? Men love their mother but they don't have sex.
Then he probably shouldn't have VOTED FOR ONE.
The leftists will go violent sooner rather than later.
You are correct that obammy is a mooselimb.
What i fail to understand is he is a homo.
Yet they throw folks like him off high buildings.
That should disuade him one would think.
Plus, at the end of his term, he's up for a "Hero of the Islamic State" medal...
When it comes to 0bama things are not so much unthinkable as un-thought of.
Constitutionally, none of his official business at all.
Obama’s mother was Muslim. Hell she married two Muslim men.
Islam is of course exempt from this line of criminal thought!
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