Shrug
LCPL Champion
I'm not likely to be discriminated against because of this law, so I might be the wrong person to be aggrieved, but this shit is ridiculous. In essence, Indiana contrived (and passed) a law affording corporations, for-profit and otherwise, the right to claim religious freedom against individuals, and backed the law with specific wording to ensure any suit claiming discrimination brought by a private individual against a business would be discarded, assuming the reason for the argued discrimination was religious, in accordance with the law. This seems based at fostering discrimination, specifically against gay and lesbian individuals, and I'm confused as to what makes it permissible in a society that has supposedly been trying to move away from segregation.
I understand there are states with laws titled the same thing - the Religious Freedom Restoration Act - including Connecticut, whose governor condemned the act's passing. However, these laws in the majority of the states where they are applied do not mention corporations as part of this protection and similarly do not forbid suits claiming discrimination when the dispute is religious. They are not the same; they should not be treated the same.
For my part, i cannot distinguish between the following scenarios:
A Christian couple makes wedding cakes. They receive a request to bake a cake for a gay wedding and refuse based on religious grounds.
A Christian couple makes wedding cakes. They receive a request to bake a cake for an interracial wedding between a black man and a white woman and refuse because they are racist.
Essentially the latter is "i feel i can discriminate based on my personal beliefs" and the former is "i feel i can discriminate based on my personal beliefs because my religion says so".
When did believing in God mean you don't have to follow laws and mean you get to be a dick?
I understand there are states with laws titled the same thing - the Religious Freedom Restoration Act - including Connecticut, whose governor condemned the act's passing. However, these laws in the majority of the states where they are applied do not mention corporations as part of this protection and similarly do not forbid suits claiming discrimination when the dispute is religious. They are not the same; they should not be treated the same.
For my part, i cannot distinguish between the following scenarios:
A Christian couple makes wedding cakes. They receive a request to bake a cake for a gay wedding and refuse based on religious grounds.
A Christian couple makes wedding cakes. They receive a request to bake a cake for an interracial wedding between a black man and a white woman and refuse because they are racist.
Essentially the latter is "i feel i can discriminate based on my personal beliefs" and the former is "i feel i can discriminate based on my personal beliefs because my religion says so".
When did believing in God mean you don't have to follow laws and mean you get to be a dick?