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Zorra

(27,670 posts) Mon Mar 30, 2015, 08:53 PM Mar 2015

Arkansas House Panel OKs ‘Religious Freedom’ Amendments; Opponents Rally

Source: TimesRecord

LITTLE ROCK — A House committee on Monday advanced an amended version of the controversial religious freedom bill in a party-line vote.

The House Judiciary Committee voted 11-5 to concur in Senate amendments to House Bill 1228 by Rep. Bob Ballinger R-Hindsville. The bill goes next to the full House for consideration of the amendments.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has said he will sign the bill.

Read more: http://swtimes.com/legislature/arkansas-house-panel-oks-religious-freedom-amendments-opponents-rally

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Arkansas House Panel OKs ‘Religious Freedom’ Amendments; Opponents Rally (Original Post) Zorra Mar 2015 OP

and another state falls Marthe48 Mar 2015 #1

Another ALEC provided model bill with wording to legalize discrimination is proposed..... Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #4

Maybe the national backlash from the Indiana law Art_from_Ark Mar 2015 #7

Difference is, Arkansas has nothing to lose, economically. Who wants to go there in the first place? Hoppy Mar 2015 #12

Lots of people want to go there Art_from_Ark Mar 2015 #13

A GOP president and congress would make this the law of the land. AlinPA Mar 2015 #2

Where are the Courts on this, aren't they supposed to get a say? Where is the inunction to stay? Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #5

Yes they will have the power to simply declare their entire State, a Church. misterhighwasted Mar 2015 #6

AK. Home of the Biggest Bible Waving Bigot of all, Michelle Dugger & her anti-Transgender campaign. misterhighwasted Mar 2015 #3

AK is Alaska Art_from_Ark Mar 2015 #8

Good idea Marthe48 Mar 2015 #9

They're working hard to make the US the laughing stock of earth! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2015 #10

Perhaps the RWNJs Thespian2 Mar 2015 #11

Opposed by Walmart and the UofA, but will happen because the GOP in sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #14

It's the freaking American Taliban!! Elmer S. E. Dump Mar 2015 #15

Marthe48

(17,002 posts)

1. and another state falls

Reply to Zorra (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 08:59 PM

Mar 2015

backward

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

4. Another ALEC provided model bill with wording to legalize discrimination is proposed.....

Reply to Marthe48 (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:02 PM

Mar 2015

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

7. Maybe the national backlash from the Indiana law

Reply to Marthe48 (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:04 PM

Mar 2015

will knock some sense into these dum-dums.

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)

12. Difference is, Arkansas has nothing to lose, economically. Who wants to go there in the first place?

Reply to Art_from_Ark (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 10:44 PM

Mar 2015

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

13. Lots of people want to go there

Reply to Hoppy (Reply #12)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 10:55 PM

Mar 2015

For example, more than 60% of the population of my home county (100,000+) is from other states or even countries. The cost of living is one of the lowest in the country, and the winters are much less severe than in the northern half of the country. There are also a lot of natural areas in the state that are very popular, including the Ozark National Forest(s) and the Buffalo National River.

Arkansas is also the home of Walmart, Tysons, and several other Fortune 500 companies. According to Fortune, "Then there’s tiny Arkansas, with population a hair shy of 3 million. Its ascent over the past generation has been faster than any other state’s. Arkansas added $450 billion in revenues over the past two decades, expanding at 9.4% a year, four points better than the 500 average. The Natural State’s 500 members created an incredible 1.6 million jobs in 20 years. That’s 76% more than No. 2, California. Yes, Fortune readers will recognize this as mainly a Wal-Mart story: The discounter accounts for almost $400 billion of the state’s revenue gains and a boatload of jobs both in and out of state. But Arkansas also gained from the fast rise of Tyson Foods (leaping to No. 93 in this year’s list, from 225 in 1995), and the arrival of Murphy Oil (470) and its spinoff, Murphy USA (175)."

http://fortune.com/2014/06/02/fortune-500-shuffle/

AlinPA

(15,071 posts)

2. A GOP president and congress would make this the law of the land.

Reply to Zorra (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:01 PM

Mar 2015

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

5. Where are the Courts on this, aren't they supposed to get a say? Where is the inunction to stay?

Reply to AlinPA (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:03 PM

Mar 2015

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)

6. Yes they will have the power to simply declare their entire State, a Church.

Reply to AlinPA (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:04 PM

Mar 2015

Game Over.

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)

3. AK. Home of the Biggest Bible Waving Bigot of all, Michelle Dugger & her anti-Transgender campaign.

Reply to Zorra (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:02 PM

Mar 2015

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Federal Money should be withheld for any State legislating discrimination & hate for a specific part of our American society.
Separation of Church & State NEEDS to be re-defined & enforced.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

8. AK is Alaska

Reply to misterhighwasted (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:07 PM

Mar 2015

AR is Arkansas.

At any rate, I don't think that even Michelle Dugger can compete with Westboro Baptist Church, although she did help to kill Fayetteville's anti-discrimination ordinance.

Marthe48

(17,002 posts)

9. Good idea

Reply to misterhighwasted (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:07 PM

Mar 2015

I'm in Ohio. No Same sex marriage here and the idiots in charge see no discrimination. Take the money away. The red states are destroying themselves and our country.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)

10. They're working hard to make the US the laughing stock of earth! n/t

Reply to Marthe48 (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:21 PM

Mar 2015

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)

11. Perhaps the RWNJs

Reply to Zorra (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:27 PM

Mar 2015

in AR-KANSAS haven't paid heed to what has happened so far in Indiana. I reckon reading and reasoning are not respected much by the legislator types in this state.

sinkingfeeling

(51,469 posts)

14. Opposed by Walmart and the UofA, but will happen because the GOP in

Reply to Zorra (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2015, 09:03 AM

Mar 2015

Little Rock has spend the last 90 days dismantling the state of Arkansas.

Elmer S. E. Dump

(5,751 posts)

15. It's the freaking American Taliban!!

Reply to Zorra (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2015, 11:14 AM

Mar 2015

Thank FSM, my 90 year old very liberal father doesn't know about this crap. He has Alzheimer's, and if he knew all this it would just break his heart.

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