MAMMON TRUMPS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN LATEST EPISODE OF INDIANA HYPOCRISY?
According to Reuters, “Republican lawmakers in Indiana were meeting with gay and lesbian groups on Wednesday as they rushed to re-craft a potentially discriminatory Religious Freedom Restoration Act that sparked national outrage.
“Indiana’s Republican Governor Mike Pence pledged on Tuesday to rewrite the law he rushed through last week after Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Apple Inc. and other major businesses said it sent a message that the state was intolerant.”
OK, so lets see if we got this right. Hatemongering Indiana lawmakers who don’t like the idea of boys kissing each other — or at least don’t want anyone to know how much they do like the idea of boys kissing each other — decided to use the guise of religious freedom as a way to punish men and women who love people of the same sex by allowing business owners to discriminate against them so long as they claim they are doing so because it’s what God would want them to do.
But then, Wal-Mart says it’s not happy with the new law and those same lawmakers instantly decide that God’s opinion was never really all that important anyway compared to Wal-Mart’s opinion so now they are rewriting the law to make Wal-Mart and other corporations happy, presumably at God’s expense.
All of this raises the all important question for Indiana and the other 20 something states with similar legislation: Do we really need special constitutional protections for business owners whose theology includes the worshipping of a giant discount box store as the supreme entity in the universe?
All of this must be playing like a really good movie in heaven. First it makes you cry, then it makes you laugh.
Once again, God gets blamed for the actions of a bunch of bigoted buffoons.
WHY YOU SHOULD BE GLAD YOU’RE NOT JOHN KERRY
So if Iran doesn’t sign a nuclear deal with the U.S. that is acceptable to all the Middle East countries that hate and fear Iran, then several of those countries will create their own nuclear weapons program. This does not include Israel because it already has plenty of nukes.
That’s right. Saudi Arabia and Egypt are both threatening to make the move to the total global annihilation club.
Based on their differing cultures, these countries will likely choose different paths to attaining nuclear armaments. The Saudis will likely just offer North Korea $100 billion dollars for a couple of its nukes, while Egypt tries to figure out how to make a bomb using several hundred thousand low-wage laborers in the process.
All joking aside, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry doesn’t have a prayer of coming out of this mess unscathed. You can’t make irrational people behave rationally now matter how much ketchup you own. At this point, trying to make sure that nobody gets their hands on longrange missiles is looking like the best that can be hoped for.
Oh, and did we mention how thankful we are to those Republican blockheads whose letter to the Iranians undermining this process may just help the whole thing end with a giant mushroom cloud somewhere one of these days? Your children must be so proud.
