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Indiana: Where Freedom Requires Discrimination

Indiana Governor Mike Pence continues to defend the state’s new law authorizing discrimination in business transactions if it’s based on “religious beliefs.” Religious beliefs—you know, the kind that have previously defended civic virtues like slavery, child-beating, and denying women’s right to vote. That’s “religious freedom” in action for you. The legislation is supposedly intended to protect people with strong religious beliefs who don’t want to provide services for same-sex weddings. America’s Christian community (population 240 million) continues to be obsessed with non-existent threats to their freedom to worship. “You don’t have to look too far to find a growing hostility…

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African-American Pastors Call for Discrimination

A coalition of conservative Christian groups has petitioned a federal court to support Michigan’s ban on gay marriage. No big surprise. Here’s what should surprise: the coalition includes hundreds of African-American pastors and churches. Gay marriage would “destroy the backbone of our society,” said Flint’s Reverend Stacey Swimp at a local rally of Black ministers. Uh, no. Here’s what’s destroying heterosexual marriage in the African-American community: Heterosexual African-Americans. They marry at a dramatically lower rate than any other ethnic or racial group in America. “We love everybody, but we don’t love the [gay] lifestyle,” said Reverend Rex Evans of Ypsilanti.…

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