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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresidential Hopeful Bobby Jindal RIPS THE LID OFF of the Silent War On Religious LibertyŠ
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/14/bobby-jindal-religious-liberty_n_4790639.html
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) delivered a scathing attack on the Obama administration at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library Thursday night, saying an onslaught of lawsuits based on anti-discrimination laws amount to a silent war on religious liberty.
These days we think this diversity of belief is tolerated under our law and Constitution," Jindal said. "But thats wrong. This diversity of belief is the foundation of our law and Constitution. America does not sustain and create faith. Faith created and sustains America.
Jindal, a practicing Catholic raised by Hindu parents, accused President Barack Obama and "a group of like-minded elites" of eroding the rights of religious Americans by burdening devout businesses with anti-discriminatory same-sex marriage laws and federally mandated health insurance coverage.
Citing a lawsuit filed by the Christian owner of crafts retailer Hobby Lobby challenging the Affordable Care Acts employee contraception mandate, Jindal argued that "the instant you start a business, you lose" your First Amendment rights.
riversedge
(70,416 posts)okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)pay attention while you and your ilk rob them blind and allow the corporations to increase their death grip on the American economy.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)"religious liberty"
"diversity of belief"
His voters will LOVE this stalwart defender of religion.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)He apparently thinks he will be running against Obama in 2016. Nothing from a nothing and you get nothing.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Look at the timing...right around the time "Presidential Hoopeful Chris Christie" gifted us with BridgeGate, an otherwise silent and low-key Jindal is getting his snout into the news on a regular basis. He'll talk about anything as long as someone will print it.
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)eff you non-right wing fundamentalists - do as we say, not as we do.
As for religion and Christianity in America these are now just political tools and to heck with what they should stand for.
C_U_L8R
(45,031 posts)I've really had it putting up with Republican morons