Indiana Law has Homosexuals 'Foaming at the Mouth' -'I Call It the Screaming-Child-in-a-Toy-Store Tactic'

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Critics of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s recent signature on his state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act are ignoring the fact the U.S. Constitution and the state constitution “both provide strong recognition of the freedom of religion,” Pence said.

And Monday, he said, “Many people of faith feel their religious liberty is under attack by government action.”

The signing has evoked strong reaction from “more rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth people than you can imagine,” in the words of one observer. Many activists claim the law intended to protect religious rights will allow discrimination against homosexuals.

But does it?

“[J]ournalistic abuse has exploded into controversy over an innocuous religious freedom law in Indiana,” wrote Gabriel Malor on The Federalist. “This law, known as a Religious Freedom Restoration Act … tracks the language of the 1993 federal RFRA signed into law by President Clinton after a 97-3 vote in the Senate. But you would not necessarily know how innocuous it is from news media coverage. According to what you might hear in the news, this is an anti-gay law that is ‘almost universally loathed,’ and which a White House official suggested would ‘legitimize discrimination.’ Indiana’s RFRA has none of these characteristics.”

That 1993 federal law that was signed into law by Democratic president Bill Clinton “unanimously passed the House of Representatives, where it was sponsored by then-congressman Chuck Schumer …,” reports the Weekly Standard.

“The law reestablished a balancing test for courts to apply in religious liberty cases (a standard had been used by the Supreme Court for decades). RFRA allows a person’s free exercise of religion to be ‘substantially burdened’ by a law only if the law furthers a ‘compelling governmental interest’ in the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.’”

Indiana is not alone in enacting protective legislation. Thirty-one states already have heightened protection for the exercise of religion. Eighteen of those states have laws based in the 1993 RFRA, and the protections in an additional 13 states came through court rulings.

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