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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) blamed the "radical left wing" and "corporate America" for bullying Indianans into having to clarify a controversial religious freedom law.
"Let's not mince words about it, it was bullying," Jindal said Friday during a speech at a National Rifle Association's 2015 Convention.
Jindal's comments come after Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R), under national criticism, finally gave in and moved to clarify a controversial religious freedom law that opened the door to businesses refusing to serve customers on the grounds of religious objections. The law won criticism of major American business leaders and Pence was forced to defend the law before ordering the legislature to clarify it.
"This was an attack on our Constitution," Jindal said. "It was an attack on the fundamental right to speech and association and the free exercise of religion. It was large corporations, it was Hollywood, it was the media elite saying we don't care about the first amendment."
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merrily
(45,251 posts)So, Jindal and the bakery and the pizzeria were all out raising money off this?
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Puckin' Phony..........
Takket
(21,646 posts)He's averaging about 1% in the GOP 2016 polls. His own party doesn't even like him. He is as politically relevant in this country as I am.
I don't even know why anyone still bothers to write articles about him. Piyush seems to have deluded himself into believing he still has a prayer of winning the nomination but everyone else knows his political career is over once he leaves the governor's mansion.
Rex
(65,616 posts)So one group is militant and the other is a drum circle? Anyone get the memo, my Foxnews relatives seem to be silent on this one.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)That said, I think the RWers woefully misunderstand how ordinary Americans feel about gay people and marriage equality.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)misunderstand how ordinary Americans feel about any laws based on any religious belief.
surrealAmerican
(11,365 posts)I seem to remember this was not a problem for him before.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Such a pathetic little turd.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Initech
(100,108 posts)Seriously - he fails to understand how this law is unconstitutional in the first place, and he fails at what the definition of bullying is.
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)thought the law was idiotic . . . maybe . . . just maybe . . . it was idiotic.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I tire of these people. The world will march beyond them and the world will be a better place with this mindset.