Nadler 1 Staver 0 Nadler bests Christian radio host re: LGBT rights

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WATCH: NY lawmaker shuts Christian radio host down over anti-LGBT discrimination

By Arturo Garcia
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 19:08 EDT

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Christian radio host Mat Staver was at a loss on Tuesday when trying to tell a New York lawmaker how businesses discriminating against members of the LGBT communities was any difference than doing so against people of color, Right Wing Watch reported.

Staver, the dean of Liberty University’s school of law and head of the conservative lawyers’ group the Liberty Counsel, encountered stiff questioning from Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) during a subcommittee meeting for the House Committee on the Judiciary regarding alleged threats to religious freedom like marriage equality.

Nadler pressed Staver repeatedly on the question of whether photographers can use religious beliefs as a reason to refuse to take pictures at same-sex marriages, drawing the analogy between those couples and relationships between two people of color.

“Would it be an equal limitation to his religious belief if he said, “I don’t want to go to a wedding of Black people?” Nadler, himself an attorney, asked. “Would the government saying, ‘You can’t do that,’ be a violation of his religious freedom?”

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