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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCartoon. "Hateful" Hoosiers’ store window running out of space.
Hateful Hoosiers Window SpaceFinally, I drew a cartoon about Indiana. No, I havent really been waiting for a reason to pick on Indiana though I wonder how this will fly since I do have a little sister, a little brother and quite a few nieces and nephews up there. I doubt theyll see it.
But yeah, I got to hit Indiana. It seems theres always something stupid coming out of Texas, Florida and Arizona giving me an opportunity. Earlier today I drew a custom cartoon for a publication in Utah which youll see Sunday. But now Indiana has decided to doing something Neanderthaleriffic. You really gotta hate somebody to refuse to take their money.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)When you refuse to sell to someone you are hurting yourself. Such a simple concept.
Gothmog
(145,794 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)is guaranteed by supreme federal law.
How long would such a bigoted and hateful business stay open with even one of these 19the century signs?
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)They really are trying to take us way back in time.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)And the twice elected pesky President controlling the Executive Branch and military...what else to do but throw a Hail Mary?
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Just call it religion, and then it's okay.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,819 posts)father founding
(619 posts)Were You alive during the Bush years ?
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Never thought of it that way.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Belongs to Claytoonz site. I have trouble drawing a stick figure.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)ndiana Gov. Mike Pence defended his state's new religious freedom law Sunday while refusing to say if it would allow discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Facing a rising tide of criticism and business boycotts against his state, Pence said he would consider a second law that "amplifies and clarifies" the first one but added, "We're not going to change the law."
"We have suffered under this avalanche for the last several days of condemnation, and it's completely baseless," Pence said on ABC's This Week. "This isn't about disputes between individuals. It's about government overreach.
"I'm working hard to clarify this," Pence said. "We're reaching out to business leaders."
And good old Betty Bowers said it best:
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)On the basis of their faith.
Am I right?
salin
(48,955 posts)the frame is that there is government overreach that people need protection from (though he couldn't point to a single example.)
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Because they are against most everything.
What does "theology of the faith" mean? Am I dense?
salin
(48,955 posts)the action taken - that is protected - does not have to be a central belief of the person's faith.
So if I feel that it is against my faith to have women in authority roles within my business because I believe that it isn't the natural role of women in my faith tradition (I am making this example up, btw), I can have protection even though the issue of the role of women is not a central teaching/belief in my religion.
I think that is the gift to the teaparty of the Hobby Lobby ruling - and why so many rw legislatures are wading into this right now.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)There may be more sensible people than teapartiers but they are loud and pushy and have billions of Koch money behind them.
We should not doubt their power is great.
Your paragraph is good:
So if I feel that it is against my faith to have women in authority roles within my business because I believe that it isn't the natural role of women in my faith tradition (I am making this example up, btw), I can have protection even though the issue of the role of women is not a central teaching/belief in my religion.
Makes sense to me.
salin
(48,955 posts)The Hobby Lobby ruling extended the exemption beyond those methods of birth control that went against church doctrine.
These post HobbyLobby Religious Freedom bills/laws being pushed at statehouses - attempt, imo, to take that expansion given in the HobbyLobby case and codify it as state law.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)They are biting off their noses to spite their faces. So stupid.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)based on their religious beliefs.
Begs the question...what can they do to patients in the name of religion?
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2015/02/03/ind-senate-oks-bill-allowing-religious-discrimination/22808421/
The Indiana Senate passed a measure today that would allow religious-affiliated organizations such as hospitals and universities to discriminate against employees based on religion, even if they receive state contracts.
The Republican-controlled Senate voted 39-11 in favor of Senate Bill 127, which would allow faith-based recipients of state funds to hire employees based on religion. It would also allow those organizations to require employees to follow certain religious tenets.
But Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Portage, said the language that would let employers require adherence to religious tenets goes further than federal law.
This is outrageous, she said. How many tenets must you conform to? Do you have to go to church every Sunday? Can you eat meat on a Friday.