Lets not have the heavy hand of government keep people from exercising their religious belief is a paraphrase of what Governor Bobby Jindal expressed today on “Meet the Press.” It’s ironic then that Louisiana has a Religious Freedom Restoration bill in the legislature trying to work out the specifics. Why bother writing the RFR that will ultimately get watered down and duplicate the federal version? Attitudes are changing at a different pace in various locals, slower in rural than in metropolitan areas, so any law setting specifics is behind or ahead of the issue. Let it resolve itself in the various communities at their pace and not dictate the same result in New Orleans where LGBT’s celebrate openly while in rural areas there is no willingness to celebrate openly nor desire to force participation. As attitudes change and rural America catches up good people will express themselves without the heavy hand of government.
April 23rd Bobby Jindal Editorial in the New York Times Holding Firm Against Gay Marriage appears to favor the Heavy Hand of Government.
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