The anti-RFRA backlash is a perfect storm of hysteria and legal ignorance.
Indiana is experiencing its two minutes of hate. It is doubtful that since its admittance into the union in 1816, the heretofore inoffensive Midwestern state has ever been showered with so much elite obloquy.
Indiana’s sin is that its legislature passed and Governor Mike Pence signed into law a Religious Freedom Restoration Act, setting out a legal standard for cases involving a clash between a person’s exercise of religion and the state’s laws.
To listen to the critics, you’d think the law was drafted by a joint committee of attorneys from the Ku Klux Klan and Westboro Baptist Church.
The enlightened are stumbling over themselves in their rush to boycott Indiana. Seattle and San Francisco are banning official travel there, and Connecticut is following suit. In a Washington Post op-ed, Apple CEO Tim Cook pronounced the Indiana law part of a “very dangerous” trend that allows “people to discriminate against their neighbors” (never mind that his company is happy to do business in Communist China).
The anti-Indiana backlash is a perfect storm of hysteria and legal ignorance, supercharged by the particularly censorious self-righteousness of the Left.
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Mike MansfieldApril 1, 2015
It appears that certain advocates are looking for ghosts in goblins in anything and everything that advocates for religious tolerance and religious rights. This whole issue is blown out of proportion by a group of people who, because of an imbalance in sensitivity have allowed their sense to abandon them.
David HallApril 1, 2015
It's interesting how to some, tolerance goes in only one direction. George Stephanopoulos asked Indiana Governor Mike Pence if it should be legal in Indiana for a business to refuse service to a gay couple. I would ask the question in the other direction. Should it be legal for someone to boycot someone else because of their belief in traditional marriage? We have all of these self-righteous people wanting to deny business to Indiana for standing up for religious liberty, and that is okay. But if a wedding caterer says, "You know, I don't feel comfortable catering this wedding - why don't you go to the caterer down the street?" then they should be castigated. In the minds of these people, tolerance goes only one way - and that is against religion. This same-sex marriage thing is going to get really ugly. The gay rights agenda is not about tolerance - this is a movement to force a belief on people.