Don't Believe the Lying Headlines

“Indiana Businesses Can Now Refuse Gay Customers.”

But it isn’t true. There is nothing in the law about shoe stores refusing to sell shoes based on the business-owners views on the morality of the customer. No one is refusing to serve practicing homosexuals at restaurants. (And again, even if the government recognized that freedom rather than suppressing it, few or no business owners would exercise it because no one wants to turn away customers if they can help it.)

The law is not about refusing customers but about refusing to pretend that there is some such thing as “gay marriage.” There isn’t. It doesn’t exist. And, if you want to indulge in a mock marriage ceremony to assert otherwise, you are going to have to go to businesses that share in your belief or else don’t care about it one way or another.

Christianity teaches that marriage is heterosexual (not that it ought to be heterosexual but that it is). Whether they are wrong or not, from the perspective of a secular person, is irrelevant. The point is that Christianity has not been outlawed in this country, so Christians are no more required to take part in a “gay marriage” then a Jew is required to eat non-kosher meat.

Everyone is acting outraged because this bill “allows discrimination.” But then we see these same people embrace discrimination.

Some groups that hold conventions there say they may reconsider their plans to do so. The bill signing comes just more than a week before NCAA men’s Final Four games at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis; the NCAA says “we are examining the details of this bill … the NCAA national office is committed to an inclusive environment where all individuals enjoy equal access to events.”

What’s that? You are going to discriminate against an entire state because you don’t like their morality? That’s an odd practice for people who are “committed to an inclusive environment”! But I completely support your right to do it in a free country. And if you have the right to exclude an entire state, then I think we are on safe ground to say that Indiana business owners have the right to not participate in mock marriages (as they see it, if you will). If you get to discriminate, then so do they.

It is called equality before the law.

Read more at http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/03/lying-headlines-about-religious-freedom-in-indiana/#C2AzFBFxG7LisRDS.99