Gov. Jindal Backing Broad Anti-Gay Religious Freedom Bill

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM/The New Orleans Times-Picayune

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is throwing his support behind a religious freedom bill that's broader in many ways than the controversial one in Indiana that Gov. Mike Pence (R) was forced to clarify after a national uproar.

"Yes, we support the bill," Jindal spokeswoman Shannon Bates Dirmann said according to The New Orleans Times-Picayune. "This is a common sense bill that provides necessary protections for individuals to prevent adverse treatment from the state based on religious beliefs regarding marriage."

The bill, introduced by Louisiana state Rep. Mike Johnson, allows businesses to refuse to recognize same-sex marriage. It also would allow a private company to not offer benefits to same-sex married couples based on religious objections.

Jindal's support for this bill falls in line with him backing the Indiana bill and similar legislation in Arkansas, which Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) sent back to the state legislature to better reflect a federal religious freedom law passed in 1993.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bobby-jindal-religious-freedom-louisiana

[TlalocW]

1. Pay attention to me! Pay attention to me!

No one is excited about my run for the presidency. This will get momentum on my side!

TlalocW

[Enrique]

3. exactly

and at the expense of his party, who wants to move away from the anti-gay nonsense.

[The Wizard]

2. Ever notice how Repubics always

need a scapegoat? First they came for the labor unions, then it was the gays and gypsies and then the Jews (liberals) and then it was--------------- Holy crap they act like German National Socialists in the 30s and 40s.
The only things missing are the snappy uniforms and the hooked cross.

[GOLGO 13]

9. Now it's just $5,000 suits and gold crucifixes on their lapels

that they use to identify each other with. Their "salute" is done in private I'm sure.

[Myrina]

4. Just really not bright at all, is he?

Or was he just completely asleep for the last 2.5 weeks?

D'oh!

[BlueMTexpat]

16. In Jindal's case,

it could be both.

[mpcamb]

5. Interesting, how they all suddenly "got religion."

[lark]

6. Yeah, that will really win him a lot of votes from NO.

NO will die if the conventions are pulled. Jindal is just another Repug inbred idiot, obviously didn't mean a thing he said about Repugs being the party of "stupid". Guess he has to personally demonstrate just how stupid they really are.

[Trillo]

7. Seems like this would violate Lousiana's Declaration of Rights.

http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Constitution/Article1.htm#%C2%A78.%20Freedom%20of%20Religion
§8. Freedom of Religion

Section 8. No law shall be enacted respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

It also seems like it would violate the Right to individual dignity,

§3. Right to Individual Dignity

Section 3. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws. No law shall discriminate against a person because of race or religious ideas, beliefs, or affiliations. No law shall arbitrarily, capriciously, or unreasonably discriminate against a person because of birth, age, sex, culture, physical condition, or political ideas or affiliations. Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited, except in the latter case as punishment for crime.

If it were to be passed, it doesn't seem like it would be upheld on challenge.

[vkkv]

8. Let's hope that Republicans never have both Houses AND the White House.. YIKES

We're already looking like a third world nation as it is..

[atreides1]

12. Not a third world nation

Just the American version of Iran with an ISIL like group in charge of a new inquisition!

[olddots]

10. what a insecure little twit

the perfect repukian .

[americannightmare]

11. So much easier...

to boycott Louisiana! Maybe this will get more people to buy local, too...

[Vinca]

13. Bobby's working hard to out hate the haters.

Good luck to him. The mountain is high.

[BigDemVoter]

14. Stupid & useless Fuck Bucket

[tabasco]

15. This man is a governor of one of our United States

Our society is rotten to the core and I think I might even live to see it collapse.

[LynneSin]

17. New Orleans is an amazing city and I'm glad to have had a chance to visit it

Because there is no way in hell I will step one foot in that state again while that law is in place. Jindal has turned an amazing state into an embarrassment.

I hope the next governor can undo the damage and bring back the greatness that was one Louisiana.