Tuesday, March 24, 2015

The Slippery Slope

It is a slippery slope that they have created, granting special rights to people to break the law. This country was based on the fact that no one is above the law, that is about to be broken…
Indiana Sends 'License to Discriminate' to Governor's Desk
Republican Gov. Mike Pence has indicated he intends to sign the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The Advocate
By Sunnivie Brydum
March 23, 2015

Less than a week after it passed out of committee, legislation in Indiana that would allow businesses to turn away customers who somehow offend the owner's religious beliefs — and seemingly targeted at LGBT residents — is headed to the governor's desk.

Senate Bill 101, also known as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, passed the Indiana House of Representatives by a vote of 63-31 Monday, reports LGBT blog The New Civil Rights Movement.
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As with similar legislation introduced around the country, the Indiana bill does not specifically mention LGBT people or same-sex marriage. Instead, it couches its so-called license to discriminate in a stated desire to protect "religious freedom."

By doing so, SB 101 inculcates any "person" — defined as an individual, organization, religious society, church, corporation, company, "unincorporated association or another entity" — from any "government entity" that may "substantially burden a person's exercise of religion." The legislation does not define what constitutes a "substantial burden," though it does provide relief for the possibility that such religious freedom might be burdened in the future.
This is a license to break any law you do not like.

Are they going to have a religious test? Or can I just claim that a law violates the tenants of my spiritual beliefs? Can I use drugs and claim that my religion believes that I can achieve a god like state. Can I rape a teenage girl by claiming it is a religious ritual?

When you tell a group of people that they do not have to obey the laws that everyone else has to obey is wrong it is granting them special rights based on religion. It is a perversion of the First Amendment.

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