Discussion: GOP Senators To Re-Introduce Anti-Gay 'Religious Freedom' Bill Next Year

Unfortunately, I fear you are right.

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She’ll just claim it’ll start the revolution, things need to get bad before they get better and blah de blah de blah. Same stuff from someone who will never admit they screwed up

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Does this mean that Baptists don’t have to provide services to Catholics or vice versa, just think of the living hell we could put Mormons through. Fun for the whole family.

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There will be Deeply Held Belief Commission to set the standards and to determine the depth and validity of each individual claimant on a case by case basis.

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So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor’s religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers, an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.

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No. It’s a license to hate, and hide behind Jesus’ skirts while doing so.

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Because the fiddler calls the tune,

Now Trump might disagree with that notion, but let’s find out what happens

Good god. The ability to discriminate against gays isn’t religious freedom. It’s bigotry.

When someone comes for your bible, or stops you from attending your church or tells you what to tell your children, then you can come see me about “religious freedom.”

Until then, SHUT THE FUCK UP.

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They’ll see a creative brain drain of epic proportions.

News Anchor: “shocked bystanders are in awe, as two constitutional lawyers take a shot at the first. But right now, here’s a demented grandpa strapped to 'the tree of woe.”

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Oh how awesome! Now I can not only be fired for putting up a picture of my husband at work, I can be booted from the homeless shelter when we lose the house! I love America!

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zealotry: noun: 1. fanatical and uncompromising pursuit of religious, political, or other ideals; fanaticism.

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Perhaps we’ll also see a bill that allows people to simply shoot people that they don’t like. We know they want it.

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I choose to name them “Bob” and “Jane.”

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Already got it - called “Stand Your Ground” - written by the gun lobby.

As for Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, this is the fight they always want because this is the fight that keeps them elected and in power forever. The gays, the gays, OMG, the gays!

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I don’t see how this bill would survive a SCOTUS challenge.
The Constitution is very clear about the fact that you CANNOT write a law that favors one religion over another and this bill SPECIFICALLY calls out Judeo-Christian Religious concepts.
On top of that, it is 100% in opposition of prior SCOTUS rulings on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage.
Also, I don’t think ANYONE can show they are “harmed” by somebody else getting married, therefore they have no “standing”. That has never worked in ANY of the court cases brought against same-sex marriage. Also, the government is not subject to the monetary-rescission idea. They can pull funding whenever they wish for whatever reason they wish. They AWARD money, it is not a constitutional RIGHT.

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It’s well known Jesus and Matthew used to go fag bashing on Saturday nights. And they sure as hell didn’t let them use the laundromat in Nazareth. Geez.

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then you’ll get all soft.

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Yes, and I expect salty language out of you.

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I need to start my own religion ASAP.

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