Kindness, Take Three: Love Everyone
Hi! Happy Monday! All you need is love! Zoom zoom! A couple of news items in the news lately have dovetailed nicely into my third take on kindness, love everyone. Indiana's bait and switch tactic of passing a Religious Freedom Restoration Act that goes beyond protecting a person from government religious oppression , but instead calls a business a person and then allows civil, person-to-person religious oppression. But hey, the law has the same name, RFRA! The problem with this statement [is that, well, it’s false. That becomes clear when you read and compare those tedious state statutes. If you do that, you will find that the Indiana statute has two features the federal RFRA—and most state RFRAs—do not. First, the Indiana law explicitly allows any for-profit business to assert a right to “the free exercise of religion.” The federal RFRA doesn’t contain such language, and neither does any of the state RFRAs except South Carolina’s; in fact, Louisiana and Pennsylvani