Posted on 05/19/2015 11:09:50 AM PDT by GIdget2004
A Louisiana House panel has effectively defeated religious freedom legislation that drew staunch opponents to it based on criticism – either real or perceived – that it authorizes discrimination against LGBT people.
The bill (HB 707) is designed to block the government from pulling licenses, tax benefits, and the like from a company because of the owner's view of same-sex marriage. But LGBT advocates and a few legal experts have said it would also allow businesses of any size to refuse to recognize and sanction discrimination against married same-sex couples, should same-sex marriage become legal in Louisiana.
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Cowards
The New American way.
Unbelievable. So they will discriminate against religious people in favor of perversion. Robert Bork was right, only now no longer slouching. USG, not USA.
It can be traced back to the Brown v. Board decision which should have halted government-sanctioned segregation and stopped at that point. But the liberals took it way too far, encroaching on the rights of private companies and individuals to conduct affairs with the freedom of the marketplace. In that respect Barry Goldwater was correct about the overreach of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Republic is now paying the price for the central government's meddling.
I’m shocked that this happened in Louisiana.
Same with Texas last week.
These are states where this issue should be a slam-dunk for us; what the hell is going on? Does the Chamber of Commerce hold that much power?
Churches, religious schools and other organizations had better start figuring out how they will pay the taxes. I predict most will be entirely unable to do it. First donations will go down because of loss of tax benefits. Sales tax, federal and states taxes, all bad. But it is the property taxes that will be the real sticker shocker.
It won’t end here. We will get first hand experience at what it felt like to be a Jew in Europe back in the early 1930’s. Let’s hope we don’t get to experience the late 30s to 40s. But I don’t know. The left has blood in their eyes.
We have chosen for ourselves weak leaders. I was watching an interview between a lawyer on the side of normal marriage and one on the side of homosexual marriage. The one on the wrong side was way more effective than the one on the right side. I couldn’t believe it. I thought, is he a plant by the left? He was terrible. She couldn’t answer some of it but it went right over his head.
Once the Supreme Rulers hand down their mandate it is only going to increase — and fast. We won’t have time to turn around. And they will finally have all the legal status to do it. We SHOULD HAVE gone for the Federal Marriage Amendment 10 years ago. But the left and their “moderate” cohorts said it was not necessary because of all the state laws and amendments. The joke is on us. Big shock. No morals AND no truthfulness.
So they will discriminate against religious people in favor of perversion
Yes. Yours is better. Thanks.
The property taxes alone will take many down.
On the bright side - they didn’t get our guns first...
LOL.
I think that one is coming. They will find some other sneaky and dishonest way to bring it about.
I think I’ve seen how they’re getting around it.
They sold all that military equipment to local law enforcement departments nationwide,
then Obama comes out against locals using that equipment...
it’s called “forward positioning” for the federalized “police” force.
Take off your rose colored glasses! How did the looting & burning in Ferguson & Baltimore differ in horror from Crystal Night in 1938 Germany? (And in Baltimore, at least, how did the Mayor's suppression of a Police response, differ essentially from the Government's implied consent to what happened in German cities in the late 1930s?
The Left has always known how to really hate! The reason, also, is obvious. The whole motivation of the Left has always been hatred of the traditional workings of normal societies. It may be portrayed as "enlightened" on college campuses, and in the mass media, largely run by those who were too dumb or too craven to ever challenge the idiocy that was being preached in many class rooms; but the nature of the beast was always obvious, from pre-Jacobin France on--Hell, from Genesis on. The Left is motivated by a pathological hatred of reality.
Very true.
There is nothing idealistic about them--and certainly not about the absolutely predictable results.
Shows you just how many fudge packers there are in positions of power.
Pinging Bubba Ho-Tep. Another perspective on what we talked about.
Just last month:
“As thr fight for religious liberty moves to Louisiana, I have a clear message for any corporation that contemplates bullying our state: Save your breath,” Jindal wrote in a NYT op-ed piece.
Louisiana is not as conservative as people like to think. All around me are idiots who think ohomo is doing a great job, fags have as much right to marry as real people, and think you shouldn’t be able to walk into a gun store and buy an AK. I could go on all day but I type slow.
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