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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 07:36 PM Apr 2015

Jindal: 'Radical Left' And Big Business Bullied Indiana On Religious Freedom

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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Jindal: 'Radical Left' And Big Business Bullied Indiana On Religious Freedom (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2015 OP
Uh oh. merrily Apr 2015 #1
Piyush's Pathetic Pandering. TheCowsCameHome Apr 2015 #2
Jindal is irrelevent Takket Apr 2015 #3
Yep. BlueStater Apr 2015 #11
So is the radical left and the fringe left the same group? I get them all confused. Rex Apr 2015 #4
LOL - I *wish* we had a radical left. cyberswede Apr 2015 #5
I think RWers... malokvale77 Apr 2015 #16
Now he's worried about big business bullying states? surrealAmerican Apr 2015 #6
I have a feeling he knows more about bullying than he cares to admit tularetom Apr 2015 #7
Har har har, so funny, Bobby Jindal. City Lights Apr 2015 #8
And that's the very best one can say of him, the repulsive jerk! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2015 #13
OMG - could he fail more at failing? Initech Apr 2015 #9
Umm . . . if two groups as different as the 'Radical Left' and 'Big Business' Strelnikov_ Apr 2015 #10
Yeah Bobby, blame them for being against discrimination! Bobby, you really are a jerk, wake up! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2015 #12
It's radical once again to want equality. Raine1967 Apr 2015 #14
Whatever you say Chester, Monk06 Apr 2015 #15

Takket

(21,646 posts)
3. Jindal is irrelevent
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 07:57 PM
Apr 2015

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.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
11. Yep.
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 08:10 PM
Apr 2015

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)
4. So is the radical left and the fringe left the same group? I get them all confused.
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 07:57 PM
Apr 2015

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)
5. LOL - I *wish* we had a radical left.
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 08:00 PM
Apr 2015

That said, I think the RWers woefully misunderstand how ordinary Americans feel about gay people and marriage equality.

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)
16. I think RWers...
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 11:28 PM
Apr 2015

misunderstand how ordinary Americans feel about any laws based on any religious belief.

surrealAmerican

(11,365 posts)
6. Now he's worried about big business bullying states?
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 08:02 PM
Apr 2015

I seem to remember this was not a problem for him before.

Initech

(100,108 posts)
9. OMG - could he fail more at failing?
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 08:06 PM
Apr 2015

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)
10. Umm . . . if two groups as different as the 'Radical Left' and 'Big Business'
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 08:09 PM
Apr 2015

thought the law was idiotic . . . maybe . . . just maybe . . . it was idiotic.

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)
14. It's radical once again to want equality.
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 08:31 PM
Apr 2015

I tire of these people. The world will march beyond them and the world will be a better place with this mindset.

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