Texas GOP Lawmaker Defends Religious Freedom Bill By Pulling The Nazi Card

[TexasTowelie]

A Texas state Representative who is sponsoring a religious freedom bill similar to the ones recently passed in Indiana and Arkansas attempted to defend the proposed law by pulling the Nazi card, a sign that he knows he is losing the debate.

Republican Representative Matt Krause told a Texas newspaper reporter this week:

“Should a Jewish bakery have to bake a cake for the neo-Nazi convention coming into town? Nobody would say that. Nor would anybody say a gay florist couple has to give flowers to a Westboro Baptist protest at funerals.”

Are you sure you don’t want to compare opponents of your bill to Hitler while you’re at it, Mr. Krause?

Krause attempted to clarify his remarks with this hiccup of verbal cow dung:

“All it’s saying is that if you feel like it has been burdened, that gives you a chance to go to court to say the government is infringing on my religious freedom because they are forcing me to do this.”

Read more: http://www.liberalamerica.org/2015/04/02/texas-gop-lawmaker-defends-religious-freedom-bill-by-pulling-the-nazi-card/

[Xipe Totec]

1. Last I checked, NAZI was not a religion. Though looking at the Repugs, sometimes I really wonder. n

[Downwinder]

2. Jewish merchants built the West by selling to everybody.

They came as traders in wagons and ended up with department stores.

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3. If he wants to see Nazis, all he has to do is look in the mirror.