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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (846888)4/2/2015 12:31:35 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) of 1577107
 
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was written by Chuck Schumer and was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993, after almost unanimous support from Congress.
Nowhere in that law does it allow discrimination, it was driven by our drug laws which prevented some Native Americans tribes from smoking peyote in religious ceremonies......... There is no part of that law that gives businesses the right to refuse service on religious grounds... People who smoked peyote in religious ceremony, if caught, were fired from their jobs and denied unemployment benefits.

It is not some willy-nilly effort to deny gays THEIR rights; but it is an acknowledgement that all Americans are entitled to absolute religious freedom. First and foremost. That it may interfere with the rights of someone else may be a bad thing; but unless there is some way to have it both ways, I really can't say political correctness is a righteous outcome in this instance.
Absolute religious freedom, like segregation and like the Taliban denying girls the right to go to school and dozens of other rights enjoyed by men....? And of course, banning gay marriage....

My question to you is.......what problem is the "religious freedom act" trying to solve??? Reminds me of the flag burning amendment the RW spent years trying to pass (trying to gain votes with their base)....
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