>>>>Someone saying they won't serve a person or hire a person for a job because the person is gay is no different than doing it because they're black
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>>>>I agree with you. However, that is not what Indiana's "Religious Freedom" law was all about. Many Christians (and I really wouldn't know about that personally since I am Jewish) believe that marriage is between a man and a woman because that is what their religion teaches them. The law doesn't that they do not have to serve a gay person who, say, walks into their restaurant.
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>>>Actually that's exactly what the law said - until people started complaining and businesses threatened to leave the state because of it....which resulted in the governor backpeddling real quick and the law got changed.
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>>>>That behavior is still, by definition, discrimination. It does, however, protect them from having to actively participate (by having to cater) in a (religious) event that they believe is sinful.
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>>>It's still legal to get fired from your job for being gay - and I bet we agree that is discrimination. You'll find that most republicans (or maybe I should say the elected and running-for-office republicans) are ok with this and their core favors this type of discrimination. Sort of brings me back to my original point - which is that they seem out-of-touch with the way the real world is today.
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>>>>You really shouldn't use such a broad brush...
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>>We have a similar thing here with gay marriages. Lots of right wing politicians come out (LOL) against it.
>>I don't personally don't know anyone who has a problem with it.
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>Some reporters starting asking some of the republican's running for president - if they had a family member that was having a gay wedding, would they go to it? The answers these guys provided (although I know at least one simply didn't answer the question) was some of the most ridiculous things you could imagine.

>> The answers these guys provided (although I know at least one simply didn't answer the question) was some of the most ridiculous things you could imagine.

If the answers were ridiculous, how about the questions?
NJ's credit rating is plummeting, state employees' pensions are at risk, real estate taxes continue to soar, schools are a mess, there's no money to fix roads and bridges, and these dumb-dumbs are asking Christie about a gay wedding that will probably never take place.
He LOVES them for it!
Keeps the real issues on the back page.