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Listening closely to those who support these new religious freedom restoration bills, you have to understand their concern about the rights of the Washington State florist losing her fight in the courts when she refused to supply flowers to a gay wedding but to hear them speak, you would think that because of that decision, this florist was about to not only lose her business but her home as well.  Seeing it in that manner, any reasonable person may pause but according to Reuters news agency in their article titled “ Washington state florist fined for refusing to service gay wedding ” one would find themselves misled and lied to by the way this story was constructed. The article reports that “a judge in Washington State on Friday fined a florist $1,000 after she refused to sell flower arrangements for a gay couple's wedding, officials said.  Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who along with the couple - Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed - sued florist Barronell...

Governor Mike Pence of Indiana and the Indiana State Legislature opened a very large Pandora box when they secretly pass their Religious Freedom Restoration Bill, thinking that they would be successful is cloaking it with the label of religion hoping that no one would notice or even care.  The governor stated as early as yesterday that this bill would not give any business the right to deny service to anyone proving that no man or woman will ever have the power or authority to direct, corral or control another.  Case in point. This article by Inae Oh for Mother Jones Magazine titled “ Indiana Pizzeria Says It Will Deny Service to LGBT People” In it the operator of this business clearly tells us a different story.  It reports that “Catering pizza to your wedding guests might sound unconventional, but it does happen. Oh, does it happen.  But if you're gay and in Indiana, don't call Memories Pizzeria in Walkerton: They won't help you make your wedding memories. Th...

This is a question that many of us will differ on but let me lay it out basing it on the many different decisions made by the majority on the Supreme Court and you can make up your own mind. In case many of you think that I might want to make up these things, I am going to use the information provided by the article titled “ Obama Administration Calls the Supreme Court’s Bluff In Hobby Lobby ” written by Ian Millhiser for ThinkProgress.  In this manner, you still may not believe but at least you will have plenty of other choices to find out more to better inform your decision, perhaps.  Let’s start at nearly the beginning. , “For most of the last year, the Supreme Court has forced the Obama Administration into an elaborate dance, where the Court hands down orders casting doubt upon the administration’s efforts to ensure that all women have access to affordable birth control — while simultaneously implying that everything would be fine if the administration just designed ...