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cbayer

(146,218 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 11:18 AM Mar 2015

Georgians Rally Against Oppressive ‘Religious Freedom’ Bill

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/18/georgians-rally-against-oppressive-religious-freedom-bill.html

Samantha Allen

SHEEP’S CLOTHING
03.18.15

If it passes, the “Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act” will make the state one of the most anti-LGBT places in the country.

ATLANTA, Georgia — Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Georgians had another reason to be drinking yesterday besides the obvious one. A new bill could make Georgia one of the least LGBT-friendly states in the country and there’s less than a month left to stop it.

On a sunny St. Patrick’s Day afternoon, hundreds of LGBT Georgians gathered on Liberty Plaza across from the Georgia State Capitol—known to residents as the “gold dome”—for a rally organized by Georgia Unites Against Discrimination in opposition to the “Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act” (GRFRA).

The GRFRA—also known as SB129—is headed to the Georgia House of Representatives after clearing the Senate by a wide margin and, if passed, it will become what The Daily Beast’s Jay Michaelson has called “the nation’s harshest ‘religious freedom’ law,” granting business owners unprecedented latitude to refuse service to LGBT people and potentially even impeding child abuse investigations.

The law itself makes no reference to these consequences, only citing the need to defend “persons whose religious exercise is substantially burdened by government.” But the intent is clear to LGBT residents based on the implementation of previous RFRAs.

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Georgians Rally Against Oppressive ‘Religious Freedom’ Bill (Original Post) cbayer Mar 2015 OP
I'm sure this has nothing to do with religion. AtheistCrusader Mar 2015 #1
yes these people should get up off their asses and do something about social justice Warren Stupidity Mar 2015 #2
Perish the thought. trotsky Mar 2015 #3
 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
2. yes these people should get up off their asses and do something about social justice
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 12:46 PM
Mar 2015

instead of protesting this nonsense.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
3. Perish the thought.
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 01:01 PM
Mar 2015

I'm sure it's just the desperation of a tiny religious minority who happens to make up a majority of the state, lashing out in the only way they can - via majority rule.

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