newyorker | The Indiana law is the product of a G.O.P. search
for a respectable way to oppose same-sex marriage and to rally the base
around it. There are two problems with this plan, however. First, not
everyone in the party, even in its most conservative precincts, wants to
make gay marriage an issue, even a stealth one—or opposes gay marriage
to begin with. As the unhappy reaction in Indiana shows, plenty of
Republicans find the anti-marriage position embarrassing, as do some
business interests that are normally aligned with the party. Second, the
law is not an empty rhetorical device but one that has been made
strangely powerful, in ways that haven’t yet been fully tested, by the
Supreme Court decision last year in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. That ruling allowed the Christian owners of a chain of craft stores to use the federal version of the RFRA
to ignore parts of the Affordable Care Act. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her
dissent, argued strongly that the majority was turning that RFRA into a protean tool for all sorts of evasions. As Jeffrey Toobin has noted, she was proved right even before the Indiana controversy.
Both
of those factors have combined to produce real confusion about the
Indiana law. Some people are not being straightforward about its
implications, whether because they are calculating, mortified, or—in the
case of opponents, some of whom have also been unclear about what the
law means—alarmed, but it also inhabits novel legal territory, so it is
genuinely hard to know what those implications would be. Governor Pence
has done much to muddle things even more. On Sunday, on “This Week,” George Stephanopoulos asked Pence
“a yes-or-no question” about whether “a florist in Indiana can now
refuse to serve a gay couple without fear of punishment.” He asked half a
dozen times, but never got an answer:
Pence: This is not about discrimination, this is about …
Stephanopoulos: But …
Pence: … empowering people …
Stephanopoulos: But let me try to pin you …
Pence: … government overreach here.
Stephanopoulos: … down here though. … It’s just a question, sir. Question, sir. Yes or no?
Pence: Well—well, this—there’s been shameless rhetoric about my state and about this law and about its intention all over the Internet. People are trying to make it about one particular issue. And now you’re doing that as well.
12 comments:
What started the debacle is the backwater pizza shop lady she will not cater pizza to a same-sex weddings. As if gay weddings order pizza from her all the time...
Up to $250k now!
I thought about that also...create a crowdfund to help me order $47,000 worth of pizza with bacon layed out like a cross
I'm thinking the owner of Garret's Treasures could be their real life Ted Cobbler...., strictly on the down low. btw - I'll have you know that these are NOT hillbilly's - these are genuine hoosiers. Don't get it twisted.
Look like there is a lucrative cash money machine business in pandering to fringed xtians fears and beliefs
http://www.celebtricity.com/couple-arrested-for-selling-tickets-to-heaven/
Who in the fuh bought anything from these two crackheads?
http://www.celebtricity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/image3.jpg
They said the cops had to really grill the guy to get answers out of him
This is no different than *any* other N-1 Scam.
Duped suckers donate 5-6-7 figure lifetime sum$$ to purchase, hopefully, salvation/heaven......
lol, set up for that punchline...,
I think they built a lot of credibility with their customers before the ticket scam. They're the coldest salespeople in the world for pulling that off.
Yeah. But this is also the culture now. People who tell you wood is gold are positive and dynamic. People who cut it open and show you the wood are haters.
What's missing is the cat who pulls out a 4.5 long rod about as big around as my thumb, knocks all the "tickets" out of the crackheads' hands, and proceeds right there on the spot to administer a righteous ass-whooping to these two clowns and anybody gathered around them to hear their ripe-critter gas...,
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