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Connecticut Becomes First State To Boycott Indiana Over LGBT Discrimination Law

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    Connecticut Becomes First State To Boycott Indiana Over LGBT Discrimination Law

    by Jennifer Bendery | huffingtonpost.com | Posted: 03/30/2015 6:59 pm EDT
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    WASHINGTON -- "Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy (D)will sign an executive order on Monday barring state-funded travel to Indiana because of the state's new law that could allow businesses to turn away gay and lesbian customers for religious reasons

    Malloy's move would make Connecticut the first state to boycott Indiana over its Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which Gov. Mike Pence (R)quietly signed into law last week. The law allows businesses in the state to cite religious beliefs as a legal defense. Opponents fear it offers legal protection for businesses to refuse service to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

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    "Twenty states have RFRA laws, but Indiana's law is substantially different. While other state RFRAs apply to disputes between a person and a government, Indiana's law goes further and applies to disputes between private citizens. That means, for example, a business owner could use the law to justify discrimination against customers who might otherwise be protected under law.


    A Pence spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment."

    read more:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/30/connecticut-indiana-boycott-lgbt_n_6969684.html?ir=Politics
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    IMO: Kudos to Governor Dan Malloy credit for stepping up and telling everybody what he thought of the Pence Bill - The 'Religious Freedom Restoration Act' that was nothing but a discriminatory bill designed against a protected group of gays and lesbians that could be turned away from businesses for religious reasons.

    It seems that the republicans are 'waging war on everyone that isn't a while male republican' so now they are after the lesbians and gays who may want to go into a bakery shop and - OMG - order a wedding cake that features two females, but which one is the bride? Or two males - OMG - but which one is the groom?

    But, even though the baker may be confused too, he will soon learn to master the art of the wedding cake that will not interfere with his religious freedom...what do you think?
     
    Agent_286, Mar 31, 2015
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    Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy embarrasses himself with Indiana RFRA tantrum

     
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    Sorry, did you not know that Connecticut has an RFRA law or that Clinton signed one in 93 and Obama voted for it in Illinois? Talk about raging hypocrisy.
     
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    interesting: from the US Constitution


    Section. 10.

    No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
     
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    Why no one has spoken out about the child abuse the kids suffer while adults parade their open sexual misbehaviors to the young girls who become single mothers is strange to me.

    Why adults and whole States worry if adult Gays get married or not, they and the wide open sexual culture they have helped build up destroys the fatherless next generation which is half the babies born now.

    What about equal rights for the kids???


    CHILDREN NEED BOTH PARENTS

    63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census).
    90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
    85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes. (Source: Center for Disease Control).
    80% of rapist motivated by displaced anger come from fatherless homes. (Source: Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, pp. 403-26).
    71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. (Source: National Principals A Report on the State of High Schools).
    85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home. (Source: Fulton County Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. Of Corrections, 1992).

    These statistics translate to mean that children from fatherless homes are:

    5 times more likely to commit suicide
    32 times more likely to run away
    20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
    14 times more likely to commit rape
    9 times more likely to drop out of high school
    20 times more likely to end up in prison

    Children from "fatherless families of single mother" homes are*:

    15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
    4.6 times more likely to commit suicide
    6.6 times more likely to become teenaged mothers
    24.3 times more likely to run away
    15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
    6.3 times more likely to be in a state-operated institutions
    10.8 times more likely to commit rape
    6.6 times more likely to drop out of school
    15.3 times more likely to end up in prison while a teenage
    73% of adolescent murderers come from mother only homes

    Daughters who live in mother only homes are 92% more likely to divorce**

    ///
    http://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/relationship-between-welfare-state-crime-0
     
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    What does that have to do with anything being discussed?
     
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    While your reply deals with reprisals it would have nothing to do with boycotts against unconstitutional laws being passed. 'Reprisals' is such a soft word...it can describe the Ferguson incident, or a college basketball game where one team charges but doesn't get the foul,...making the other team lose the extra free throws points. [It is like how Duke University plays] Reprisals also can signify a prison uprising over stale breakfast food.

    A 'boycott,' on the other hand, is a refusal to have any dealings with an entity that is encouraging unconstitutional behavior or legal action.
     
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    In this case, this is the new "Hands up, don't shoot". LOL
     
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    What a bunch of useless morons. Are they going to boycott Saudi Arabian oil or anything else from a Muslim country? Thought so. Thanks for playing.
     
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    hOW DID THE cHIC-FIL-A BOYCOTT WORK OUT FOR YOU?
     
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    Dunno...I'm a vegetarian. How did it work out for the owner of Chic-Fil-A ?
     
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    there is nothing un-Constitutional about religious freedom. For that reason, CT violates the Constitution

    it's pretty straightforward. But, as we've seen, when it comes to gay sex, the rights of 96.4% of the population does not matter.
     
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    Heck no they wont. However they seem to be turning into a "muslim country" themselves...so it's only a matter of time before their opinion will be the same as Indiana.
     
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    Pence is an idiot. With one stroke of the pen he destroyed his presidential aspirations forever.
     
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    I can only wonder how this revelation will affect Hilliary's candidacy?
     
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    LOL...so says the man who cribs his OP, and many others, from the Huffington post.
    Hey pot...meet the kettle.
     
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    these laws have existed Federally and in other states for a while.

    my concern is that they COULD be used, for widespread discrimination against Jews, Muslims, Gays, etc etc
     
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    Best single month in the history of the corporation, IIRC.
     
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    Your fears are misplaced. All these laws is reduce how much money lawyers can make from 'discrimination' lawsuits.
     
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    wrong, it protects private business owners from being sued because they refused service to someone on religious grounds.
     
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