Thousands in Indy protest RFRA law

[Newsjock]

Source: Indianapolis Star

Thousands gathered in Downtown Indianapolis on Saturday to protest the passage this week of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The protesters chanted and held signs as they marched from Monument Circle to the Indiana Statehouse to express their displeasure at Gov. Mike Pence's signing of the religious freedom legislation on Thursday.

"No hate in our state," "Our State! Who's State?" and "Fix the bill" were some of the chants being heard in the background at the We Are Indiana rally,

An unidentified State Police trooper estimated that as many as 3,000 were in attendance at the height of the rally,

Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/03/28/hundreds-in-indy-protest-rfra-law/70594058/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. K&R, and the Greatest Page for you. n/t

[AwakeAtLast]

2. I wanted to go so badly!

Could not make it happen, but I'm excited by the turnout!

[WillTwain]

3. Mike Pence is an Indiana Hoser

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Correction: Loser

[WillTwain]

6. That works

Hoosier, Hoser, Loser

Hoser is closer so Hoosier

Loser is closer to reality

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Buy one, get the other..........Free!

[gademocrat7]

5. K&R

[TheMastersNemesis]

7. Christian Nuts Do Not Give A Shit. It Is Their Way Or The Highway.

Their reply is if you don't like it just leave the state.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. They don't believe the states should be united.

[bvf]

33. And when they start losing business

they'll shriek, "Persecution!"

[Thespian2]

8. K & R

[Snarkoleptic]

10. He's getting an earfull on his Facebook page right now!

He's got a video up called "Indiana’s on a roll. But there’s one thing holding us back..."

Lot's of fine folks are helping explain to him what's really holding Indiana back.
https://www.facebook.com/mikepence

[riversedge]

25. i will take a peek thanks

[captainarizona]

11. make them pay

The demonstrators should shut down the interstate highway it was very effective in the anti police violence campaign. I have written a screenplay on the effectiveness of people's roadblocks at:thealamoisavenged.com Also demand college presidents pull their teams from playing in indiana with college demonstrations and occupations of presidents office. Go after republican candidates running for office especially for president starting with the homophobes huckaboob and cruz. In 1968after the chicago convention police riot demonstrators would chant the whole world is watching at every candidate event so they couldn't campaign forcing humpty dumpty to be more anti-war then he wanted to be. Go get um and don't stop!

[shrike]

12. I've read the law. Its implications go far, far beyond LGBT rights

Unless I misunderstand the wording, it means you can ignore a law if it goes against your religious beliefs. Use your imagination. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

[Chipper Chat]

13. I'll give it 24 hours after July 1st until "Whites Only" signs pop up in bars.

And it will be perfectly legal in Indiana.

[workinclasszero]

24. You are right

These so-called religious protection laws are just a covert way to bring back Jim Crow laws and legal segregation as it was in the south in the pre-civil rights era.

The damned SCOTUS already killed the voting rights act and now these hateful religious sharia laws will bring back legal separation of the races and discrimination against gay people.

[eggplant]

15. Well, they have their own time zone...

...it's like Eastern Time, but they set their clocks one century earlier.

[Fred Sanders]

17. Look at the definitions of "excercise of religion" and "demonstrates", incredibly broad.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1696428-read-indianas-religious-freedom-restoration-act.html

"exercise of religion" means " any exercise of religion, whether compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief"

The law is a hodgepodge of vagueness that permits discrimination and then compels the government to act to stop the discrimination and then ties the hands of the judicial branch because the burden is on the government to show there is discrimination.

That is what it is, and the legal beagles of the GOP are hiding behind the "the courts will take care of it", while undermining the courts.

It may appear clever, but it is transparently evil and a stark violation of the federal supreme law.

[caraher]

23. People are already pushing the limits

I give you the First Church of Cannabis:

INDIANAPOLIS - Paperwork for the First Church of Cannabis Inc. was filed Thursday – the same day Gov. Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law.

Church founder Bill Levin, who filed paperwork with the Secretary of State's office to register the church as a non-profit, posted to his Facebook page that church and its "cannataerians" would seek "love, understanding and good health."

<snip>

According to Levin's Facebook page, members of the First Church of Cannabis will be asked for individual donations of $4.20 a month.

[Stonepounder]

34. Now we need someone to file papers for the "First Church of Woman's Right to Choose" n/t

[caraher]

35. good one! <nt>

[Zorra]

36. Can the courts in Indiana dictate which religious beliefs are valid and

which are not, on a case by case basis?

[caraher]

37. The standard is "sincerely held"

The law is even very clear that you need not even show your religious belief is something central to your religion, or point to any evidence that others in your religion share your view. You just have to be "sincere."

So I guess on a case-by-case basis, courts are to test one's sincerity.

[Marthe48]

16. Whose religion?

Jesus Christ himself told the people he was talking to: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto the Lord what is the Lord's" This law disobeys human and divine law and ignores the separation of church and state. Why are people like this elected?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. Divine law? What on earth is that?

You mean we need to hear voices in our head to get the full meaning of such law?

[Marthe48]

29. No matter what our personal belief is,

if rightwingers are spouting religion to justify their extremism, I want them to know I know they are way off. On behalf of everything else I care about, I do not accept their twisted view of faith, and I'll quote the Bible ACCURATELY at them when they do crap like this. Chapter and verse.

[workinclasszero]

28. These people are not actual Christians

They just use His name as a weapon of hate sadly.

If they followed the teachings of Jesus there would be no religious right wing at all.

And they sure as heck would not be republicans, the protectors of the rich and haters of the poor!

[PassingFair]

32. Boom...there it is!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218188821


But, this NEVER happens.

[jtuck004]

19. Any college team sent to this bigoted place should send advance scouts to see if they are turned

away -

If so, it might be dangerous for their team to go at all. Will the good citizens even call an ambulance if they see you injured, or deny that too?

If I am a parent, I might consider your school or business negligent if something happens that seems perfectly predictable right now. They better be spending some money being careful, else there may be some big lawsuits ahead.

ISIS must love Pence. Are they donating to his campaign? He is showing how we could be just like them.

[maindawg]

20. I hope its costs the state billions

in lawsuits. I hope the gay lawyers association hounds these assholes to the ends of the earth. So many bad things will happen , then the KKK will start their shit and the ACLU brings this all the way to the supreme court.
Any organization that does not exit Indiana such as the NCAA ,should be held accountable in the most aggressive ways possible.
The founders were very clear on this point.

[riversedge]

21. Hey Mike Pence, look at 'em all. photo.....

Dat White Genocider ?@Anomaly100 6m6 minutes ago

Hey Mike Pence, look at 'em all. Thousands of them protesting the discrimination bill you signed. #BoycottIndiana

[riversedge]

22. Petition-->NCAA, Move the Big 10 Football Championship out of Indianapolis...

Petition-->NCAA, Move the Big 10 Football Championship out of Indianapolis https://www.change.org/p/ncaa-to-move-the-big-ten-football-championship-out-of-indianapolis #BoycottIndiana #LGTB

[Chipper Chat]

30. I just signed and added:

Send Mike Pence and the Indiana legislators a message: Don't let the churches push you around."

[Aldo Leopold]

26. Right on!

[Bozvotros]

27. RFRA could have some merit...

If it was called "Restraining Fanatical Religious Asshats"

[Cha]

31. This is great! Mahalo Newsjock! Go Indiana! FO Gov Dense.