Michigan House Passes Bill Enshrining your Right to Discriminate Against Everyone For 'Religious Fre - Polidicks

[url]http://www.newnownext.com/michigan-house-passed-bill-allowing-emts-to-refuse-treatment-to-gay-people/12/2014/[/url] [quote]Over the weekend, Republicans in the Michigan Statehouse passed a “license to discriminate” bill that would give just about anyone the right to refuse service to LGBT people if it conflicted with their religious beliefs. The broadly written Religious Freedom Restoration Act would allow, for example, an EMT to refuse emergency treatment to a gay person or a pharmacist to refuse to refill HIV medication, because God decreed gays and lesbians should be put to death. As [URL="http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/breaking_michigan_house_passes_religious_license_to_discriminate_bill"]The New Civil Rights Movement[/URL] points out, the act is [I]so[/I] broad it would let a Catholic high school refuse to hire a Muslim janitor, and a DMV clerk deny a new driver’s license to someone who is divorced.[/quote] [quote]If it passes in the Michigan Senate and is signed by Governor Rick Snyder, a Republican, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act will become law.[/quote] "Sir.. SIR I need to know how many dicks you've sucked before I can begin treatment!"

I clicked this title thinking it was an exaggeration, but looking over it now, yeah, there's a lot you could lawfully discriminate against under this bill, like people who have tattoos. You guys are the majority, you don't need any more freedom than you already have.

Those poor, under-represented, oppressed Christians. Truly it is they who suffer the most in American society.

Is there an actual court document that I could read?

Fuck.

Found it, it's "HB5958 ". [url]http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(j1ns1p45gpwpu2f0lgsn5z45))/mileg.aspx?page=getobject&objectname=2014-HB-5958[/url]

gotta restore dem religious freedoms der that der obama-care and dem lgbtq'er are tryin to take away from you don'cha know

[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;46670132]Found it, it's "HB5958 ". [url]http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(j1ns1p45gpwpu2f0lgsn5z45))/mileg.aspx?page=getobject&objectname=2014-HB-5958[/url][/QUOTE] Assuming this doesn't just get shot down in the senate or the executive office, the wording is very vague, it leaves a lot up in the air, which I suppose was the point.

[QUOTE]“No one from the LGBT community has ever had fire hoses turned on them by the police department, they have never had to drink out of an LGBT water fountain,” pastor Stacy Swimp told the House committee that considered the measure. “There is no record of LGBT — homosexuals, lesbians—being forced to sit at the back of the bus in an LGBT section.”[/QUOTE] Calm down people. Nothing bad has happened... yet. This is just a law that will allow for those things to legally happen. It's not like anyone actually pays attention to the law. -edit /sarcasm This is an incredibly dumb law. I could be ok with, say, a bakery not getting a discrimination charge for refusing to make a cake for a gay wedding. But an open ended, discriminate against all the un-godly things law is fucking backwards. People are limit-pushing idiots, and you would have to be a fool to believe this sort of thing won't be exploited.

No way is this going to survive an appeal to a federal circuit court if it's signed into law. Michigan, you had one fucking job: Don't go back to the 17th century. This is Puritanism creeping its way back into the legal position to determine rights, and it's fucking awful that it even passed the House, regardless of the likelihood of harm. It's not 1650, it's 2014.

[QUOTE=asteroidrules;46670175]Assuming this doesn't just get shot down in the senate or the executive office, the wording is very vague, it leaves a lot up in the air, which I suppose was the point.[/QUOTE] I noticed that it cited cases. I've briefly read only two so far. One was about a archbishop who attempted to extend his property on an area that had historic relevance in Texas. The other was about a teacher who hosted prayers in a public institution. I'm hoping that those refer to the limit of the religious freedom that an individual could have.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;46670207]How do you sit in your chair and think "yes this is a good idea."? How insecure about your religion do you have to be to make yourself feel oppressed even when you're the majority?[/QUOTE] because something different "dares" to exist, and that's enough for some to feel "oppressed".