FRC complains that Indiana businesses won’t be able to tell black people to FOAD

• April 3, 2015
• civil liberties  
• politics  
• religion  
• assholes  
• christianity  
• wingnuttia  

I just received another “action alert” from the FRC (Family Research Council) urging me to contact Indiana Governor Mike Pence because

The “fix” being forced through by legislative leaders actually guts Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and empowers the government to impose punishing fines on people for following their beliefs about marriage.

Furthermore, Mr. Perkins says we should

Urge him [Governor Pence] to protect people like florist Barronelle Stutzman, bakers Aaron and Melissa Klein, and wedding photographer Elaine Huguenin by vetoing this “fix.”

Of course Mr. Perkins doesn’t say what those fine upstanding business owners need protection from. Is it that they might “decide” to become homosexuals after helping two same gender individuals get married? Because, after all, it’s a tenet of the right-wing that being gay is a “choice”. And we wouldn’t want a good example of a loving couple to entice someone who had “chosen” to be heterosexual to reconsider that choice.

The Christian faith as understood by the FRC and the people they are reaching out to also calls for them to refuse to do business with the “sons of Ham“; i.e., African-Americans, aka “black people”. Hell, the Bible can be interpreted to conclude that “those” people should be treated as slaves. So excuse me if I am unmoved by all the wailing and gnashing of teeth at the prospect that hideous law will be made less odious.

Update: See The Friendly Atheist where I am reminded that the bible also requires discriminating against couples where the wife leaves her head uncovered. Not to mention the husband who shaves his beard, persons who eat shellfish, the person who wears clothes of mixed fibres, etcetera. If these sanctimonious assholes were consistent and didn’t cherry-pick from their religion they would soon be out of business.