Indiana's Mike Pence: 'We're Not Going to Change the Law'

"There's been shameless rhetoric about my state and about this law and about its intention," said Pence. "People are trying to make it about one particular issue, and now you're doing that as well."

Indiana's new law echoes the federal religious freedom restoration act, he continued, and does not apply to "disputes between individuals unless government action is involved."

Further, Pence pointed out, in more than 20 years, "the religious freedom restoration act has never been used to undermine anti-discrimination laws in the country."

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The law means, Pence said, if there is an action or law that individuals believe infringes on freedom of religion, "they have the opportunity to go the court, go the court and the court would evaluate the circumstances under the standards articulated in this act. That's all it is."

And the headlines that say Indiana is now "licensed to discriminate," Pence said, are a "red herring" that he finds "deeply troubling ... to millions of Americans, and frankly, people all across the state of Indiana, who feel troubled about government overreach."


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Nor should they. Just because some idiots have no idea what they are protesting about is no reason to change a law that has been adopted by the majority of the states and the federal government.

Of these kind of laws get repealed, the 1st amendment regarding religious freedom will be largely shredded which is the point of the secular progressive left, to ban religion outright and any expression of it should they gain the political position to do it.

Democrats just hate the first amendment in general.

that is the whole point of the objection to religious freedom. It is a way for the left to boo God.

Well Jefferson, my faith is very personal to me and I respect anyone else to have a personal relationship as well. There's not a single person in this world who is going to take my last breath for me.

Not all Democrats are like the handful of Liberals on here, but the party has been highjacked.

I can't say much more for the Republicans either.

It's the government against the people these days.

Oh come now Six. No one is trying to take your faith away and you know it. The very idea is absurd. All we are trying to do is to make sure you don't try to make others follow your faith. Or others to be forcee to follow another faith. Laws that put a religious test on them o exactly that and are un-American and unConstitutional. Gay marriage and relationships are against you faith. Fine. But that does not give you and anyone else to make laws against them just because they're against your faith.

Being an atheist I have no problem with gay marriage. Would you try to force me to change that just because your faith is against it?

Youve probably heard by now about Indianas horrible new anti-gay law.

That would be the one signed by Republican Gov. Mike Pence, allowing religious people to exempt themselves from any generally applicable law they feel like and permitting businesses to discriminate against gays.

No shoes, no shirt, no heterosexuality, no service.

Celebrities and all right-thinking people are boycotting the new hate state over its discriminatory return to the dark ages. Theres just one problem: the law doesnt say any of these things.

Indianas Religious Freedom Restoration Act doesnt give blanket permission to businesses to deny service to gays or anyone else. (If a business truly wants to avoid serving sinners, it will have zero customers.) It doesnt mention sexual orientation at all.

What it does say is that government entities in the state may substantially burden a persons exercise of religion only in the furtherance of a compelling government interest and using the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling government interest. dailycaller