Yesterday, Indiana Republican Governor Mike Pence - heretofore a Tea Party stalwart - buckled to the leftwingnut rump ranger lynch mob and agreed to ask for followup legislation to Indiana's new Religious Freedom Restoration Act "clarifying" something - that it isn't a license to "discriminate against" homosexuals (which they define as Christian refusal to be dominated by them, but I digress) - that not only it, but no version of the RFRA in any other State or at the federal level, either explicitly or even implicitly promulgates. And which the LIVs and NIVs will conclude that it does because Governor Pence's capitulation tacitly acknowledges that fiction.
His Arkansas counterpart, Asa Hutchinson, isn't waiting for his State's RFRA to reach his desk before bending over and grabbing his ankles:
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday called for changes to a religious objection measure facing a backlash from businesses and gay rights groups, saying it wasn't intended to sanction discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Which is correct. So what "changes" are necessary to ensure it doesn't do what it wouldn't do anyway?
The Republican governor said he wants changes to the bill lawmakers sent him prohibiting state and local government from infringing upon someone's religious beliefs without a compelling interest. Hutchinson said he wants the Legislature to either recall the bill or pass a follow-up measure to make the proposal more closely mirror a 1993 federal religious freedom law.
That's not going to be enough for the Lavender Lobby, Governor.
Here's the Quint's-nails-on-the-chalkboard part:
Hutchinson had initially supported the bill and on Tuesday his office had said he planned to sign it into law.
It's amazing how quickly groundless Pachyderm fear both metastasizes and spreads, isn't it?
The move comes after Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a similar measure into law last week. Pence this week said he wants follow-up legislation to address concerns that the law allows businesses to discriminate based on sexual orientation.
Again, Governor - Governors - it won't be enough. "Gay rights groups" don't want any Religious Freedom Restoration Act bill "clarified" or made similar to the federal version; they want it vetoed and never brought up again. They don't want any Religious Freedom Restoration Act statute "modified"; they want them all repealed, killed, buried, salted, paved over, and jumped up and down on in a pagan sodomization ritual. Christian evangelicals are to have NO constitutional rights and are to be FORCED to service the Hershey Collective. Because militant homosexuals don't want "equality," they don't seek "tolerance," they demand dominance and the utter eradication of the Church of Jesus Christ (and I DON'T mean "of Latter Day Saints," either, although they would certainly be collateral damage).
It almost sounds like politicocultural bondage, come to think of it.
Good luck trying to get the splinter-of-the-mind's-eye image of Governors Pence and Hutchinson in nipple clamps and other assorted BDSM paraphernalia out of your frontal lobes. Even I won't actually post that pic.
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