BREAKING NEWS: SIGNING OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BILL IS A MAJOR STEP BACKWARDS

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 26, 2015

PELATH: SIGNING OF “RELIGIOUS FREEDOM” BILL A GIANT STEP BACK FOR INDIANA’S FUTURE

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana House Democratic Leader Scott Pelath from Michigan City today issued the following statement after Gov. Mike Pence signed SB 101, the “religious freedom” bill, into law:

“Today marks a giant step backward for Indiana.

“We are allowing people to discriminate against others under the phony cover of religious belief.

“This is progress? To conjure up images of people being denied service at lunch counters?

“Of course, none of this will register with the misguided souls who crafted this outrage. The dismay of interests as diverse as Cummins Engine, the Disciples of Christ Church, and the organizers of the Gen Con convention mean nothing to them.

“They will remain blissful in their ignorance. They have created a problem where none existed, except in their old-fashioned thinking.

“Today’s news will delight one group of people above all. This will be a gravy train for Indiana’s lawyers, as they line up to defend this law. We will keep our expensive court system busy.

“But will this help put more Hoosiers to work with good-paying jobs? Does it show kindness and compassion for others? Does it demonstrate to the world that Indiana is a place where people should want to live and work?

“No.

“All this will bring our state is embarrassment and even shame. I hope it was worth it.”

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Clint McKay
Chief of Staff
Indiana House Democratic Caucus
PH: 317-234-9049
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6 COMMENTS

  1. It was worth it. A small win but the battle against the anti Christian left will be a long and hard fought battle. Indiana is now amongst the 20 states that have enacted this law. Nothing destroys jobs like democrats, a well proven fact. Democrats look at jobs like foreign aid and send them to other countries. It was worth it because it will drive a stake between far left wing democrats and moderate democrats, forcing the moderates to cross the line to the party of the people. Christians have rights the same as non Christians, I’m not a Christian but I stand up for the underdog. Liberals are nothing but bullies and I’ve had enough of them and democrats need to expel them from their party. They’re like the rotten apple in the barrel.

    • The only anti Christians are ISIS. Everyone in the USA already had religious freedom. But just because you are free to worship in your own chosen church that does not mean you can go out and break the US Laws and then claim you did that in the name of Jesus. Sorry but Jesus didn’t roll that way and he didn’t teach those ways either.

  2. CCO- This is your idea of breaking news? Did you get paid by the Indiana House Democrats to run this? It’s nothing more than a paid political commercial, and every bit as misleading.
    For Shame.

  3. The POS bill should be called Freedom to Discriminate Act because it does exactly that. These bible thumpers are always claiming their religion is under attack while at the same time they use the government they all hate so much to discriminate against many others every chance they get. Nothing worse than a multi faced religious hypocrite.

  4. Indiana faces backlash from the newly passed and signed by Governor Pence religious freedom to discriminate against minorities and gays act. IIT that the NCAA College Final Four Tournament in Indianapolis is in jeopardy. 🙂

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