1. It ISN’T a protection for JUST Christians, as the protection is for all faith’s and belief systems.
2. It ISN’T a law that supersedes the equal protection clause.
The 14th amendment to the Constitution, Section 1 says:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
What this means is that NO ONE can simply deny service to someone because they are black or female or gay or muslim or Christian.
You will not see a store that has a sign in the window that says, “NO Gays Allowed”.
If you do, you should report it and that person is in for a world of financial and possibly criminal trouble....The religious freedom law simply says that if my religion says an activity is wrong, I have the right to not participate in it.
So, guess what you have the right to do because of that?
You can boycott a business, leave them a negative rating on social media and tell all of your friends that said business did not want to take your money and participate in an activity that went against their religious beliefs.
If free market capitalism causes that business to go under because enough people in that community agree that they no longer want to do business with an organization that refuses to engage in said activities, then guess what, that is the natural consequence.
That is how the system is SUPPOSED to work.
So, to summarize, stop saying that this law will discriminate unfairly against the gay community, as that is nonsense and can be easily debunked by simply reading the 14th amendment...
3. It ISN’T a first step toward much broader legislation.
Read on.
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