Potential presidential candidate Rick Santorum says Indiana’s governor should have stood up for his state’s recently-enacted religious freedom law. Instead, Mike Pence wants the law to be amended.
Parks and Recreation co-star Nick Offerman joined a growing list of celebrities to boycott Indiana venues over the state’s newly signed religious freedom law this week, when he cancelled an upcoming show with his wife Megan Mullally.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is calling on lawmakers to change the state’s religious freedom bill before he’d sign in.
NASCAR announced it “will continue to welcome all competitors and fans” at its racing events in Indiana and other states. It’s responding to widespread criticism over the state’s religious liberty law.
Walmart is calling on Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson to veto the state’s religious liberty bill, which is similar to the one passed in Indiana last week.
In a spectacular display of bad journalistic form, Ed Schultz cut the microphone of Heritage Foundation Fellow Ryan Anderson in the midst of a heated debate on Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act during The Ed Show on Tuesday night.
Talk radio host Glenn Beck defended Indiana’s RFRA law by arguing that freedom of conscience is “the last line of defense” on Tuesday. Beck began by stating the First Amendment means “you cannot force me to do things against my
Ben Kepes, a contributor to Forbes, took the mainstream media’s intentional misinformation campaign against Indiana’s religious freedom law to a whole new level by comparing Indiana’s religious freedom law to Nazi Germany: As the son of parents who survived the
A religious liberty bill similar to the one causing a phony uproar in Indiana this week was just passed by Arkansas lawmakers Tuesday and serves as yet another sign of the left-wing mainstream media’s waning power to intimidate and bully.
Despite the criticism surrounding Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s religious liberty law, lawmakers in Arkansas just passed a similar bill. On the other hand, lawmakers in both North Carolina and Georgia are on the defensive about their own pending religious liberty legislation.
The Post reported that a similar measure in North Carolina would “make no sense,” according to Gov. Pat McCrory who made the statement during a radio interview and added he would not sign any such legislation.
During his Monday night hour on Indiana’s religious freedom law, CNN’s increasingly bizarre Chris Cuomo repeatedly taunted Indiana Governor Mike Pence for not agreeing to an interview with Chris Cuomo. The taunting continued this morning with this tweet from a
San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, the only Republican mayor of a major U.S. city, joined the “Boycott Indiana” bandwagon, banning city travel Monday to the state over its recent Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which critics have called anti-gay. “We’ve directed the City’s Chief Operating Officer to take the necessary actions to restrict publicly funded travel by city employees to Indiana if the law is not amended or repealed by next week,” said Faulconer’s spokesperson.
A Muslim caterer refuses to cater a pork festival. A Jewish caterer refuses to cater a cheeseburger eating contest. Believing it contradicts the teachings of Jesus, a gay Christian (think Andrew Sullivan) who runs a public relations firm refuses to
Washington Post columnist and editorial writer Ruth Marcus argued that “Indiana is getting dinged for passing a law that lots of other people already have because the context is different” in a discussion on Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act on Monday’s
Thursday Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed into law the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and has been shielding himself ever since from a tirade of slings and arrows from the media, celebrities, Liberals, and even the NFL and NBA. All of this is a result of what Pence says is a law that protects religious freedom for “Hoosiers.”
Texas State House Representative Matt Krause (R-Fort Worth) is going forward with a Religious Freedoms measure apparently abandoned by Rep. Jason Villalba (R-Dallas). Krause’s bill proposes a constitutional amendment which would bar counties, cities, and homeowners associations from interfering “in any way a person’s free exercise of religion.” The amendment is intended to address ordinances passed in Houston, San Antonio, and Plano that target business owners who exercise their religious beliefs about sexual orientation.
