The hypocrisy of the liberal left in all its glory. They are outraged and apoplectic about a law their liberal messiah signed into law in 1993. This is their issue du jour this week. Why don’t they protest and boycott all 21 states that have a version of the law in effect? That should work. I wonder what Miley Cyrus thinks about the law.
The ‘extremely controversial’ RFRA is based on a 1993 Federal Law, which is also dubbed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. It was signed into law by ‘right-wing extremist’ president Bill Clinton.
Above is a map of the states that have signed onto versions of the 1993 RFRA signed into law by former President Bill Clinton (as of 2014). The ACLU map shows 19 states that adopted such legislation; Utah and Indiana more recently passed laws.
The RFRA does not give businesses a “license to discriminate” against LGBT persons, but rather works within a narrow legal parameter to give businesses defense against federal lawsuit. That is because the states can recognize individual rights in a more assertive fashion than the federal government, under the 9th and 10th amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The HSLDA explains:
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