Good Questions and Bad Law

[rug]

March 3, 2014
By vorjack

JT posted a clip of Anderson Cooper interviewing Al Melvin, Republican member of the Arizona Senate. Melvin was one of the supporters of the recent “religious freedom” bill.

You can go to JT’s site for the interview, or for Jon Stewart’s take on the interview. There’s one particular exchange that caught my attention, so here’s a segment of the CNN transcript:

COOPER: Help me understand. Under your law, under this law, if I’m a Catholic loan officer, say, in a bank, and I don’t like the idea of loaning money to a divorced woman because Jesus spoke against divorce very strongly, or I don’t want to loan money to an unwed mother, even though she might be, you know, able to pay me back as a loan officer. I just don’t — it’s against my religious belief and my religious belief is sincere.

Under your law, I could refuse to do business with an unwed mother or a divorced woman, correct?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2014/03/good-questions-and-bad-law/

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/24/acd.01.html

[cbayer]

1. It repeatedly amazes me how these people can't fathom how these laws might

possibly apply to situations that they don't personally embrace.

Are they that self-absorbed that they really think everyone is just like them?

[Hoppy]

2. I think the law should pass.

I'm an atheist and I wouldn't have to do a damn thing for any of those bastards.

[cbayer]

3. I think you could probably make a case for denying to serve them, but

I still couldn't support it.