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INDIANAPOLISAddressing the controversy surrounding his states recently signed Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Indiana governor Mike Pence forcefully insisted to reporters Monday that the new law has nothing at all to do with what it was explicitly intended to do. Let me state directly that in no way is this law designed to allow the kind of anti-gay discrimination that is the laws single reason for existing, said Pence, emphasizing that provisions authorizing businesses to refuse service to gay customers were nothing more than the only explanation for the law being drafted in the first place. Regardless of the widespread misconceptions surrounding it, I want to reassure Hoosiers of all backgrounds that this law will never be interpreted in the way it was unambiguously designed to be from the very beginning. Pence further clarified that the acts sole purpose was in fact to safeguard the free exercise of religion it was in no way whatsoever created to protect.
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TlalocW
(15,388 posts)The Onion is actually reporting the real news in this case. They're trying for their normal satire here, but reality beat them to it.
TlalocW
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)and have total disrepect for those who think they can get away with it
almost like a skit from SNL
except its not
randome
(34,845 posts)The law actually does allow for discrimination and anyone filing a lawsuit against it will be able to quote the governor on their behalf.
Pence is an unmitigated idiot. And a loser.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]